“You can’t make music in a test tube and do math. There has to be spontaneity with a little planning and a lot of mistakes”: How Tool created enigmatic, brain-bursting alternative rock with a late-’90s masterpiece

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The fifth track from Tool’s second studio full-length Ænima sits amongst the progressive metal quartet’s most beloved recordings.

Although it dates all the way back to 1996, Forty Six & 2 remains one of Tool’s most performed songs and appeared on the setlist when they played the Back To The Beginning show at Birmingham’s Villa Park in 2025, which made history for being Ozzy Osbourne’s final performance.