Ænema

"Ænema"
Promotional single by Tool
from the album Ænima
Released1997
Genre
Length6:39
LabelZoo
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)David Bottrill
Tool singles chronology
"H."
(1996)
"Ænema"
(1997)
"Forty Six & 2"
(1997)
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"Ænema" is a song by American rock band Tool, released as a promotional single from their second major-label release Ænima. Adam Jones made a video for the song using stop-motion animation; it is included in the Salival box set. The song reached number twenty-five on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in August 1997.

The song makes extensive use of hemiola, a musical technique in which the emphasis in a triple meter is changed to give the illusion that both a duple and a triple meter occur in the song.

The song is cast in terminally climactic form, in which two verse/chorus pairs give way to a climactic ending on new material.