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Title: Tool – Ænima
Year/Genre: 1996, Metal
Condition: M

Cultural Facts:

1. Built in L.A.’s mid-’90s art-metal ecosystem: Maynard still fronted the band with his back turned, keeping “anti-frontman” theater as a rule.

2. The cover’s lenticular-style design came from Cam de Leon—he later claimed unpaid-use disputes, a rare public crack in Tool’s visuals myth.

3. The “L.A. apocalypse” jokes tie to local 1994–95 shocks (quake, riots afterglow) and a scene obsessed with purification, collapse, and cynicism.