At over 15 minutes in length, it is the final song on the band's fifth studio album, Fear Inoculum.
[4][5] While the guitar riffs are described as reminiscent of Lateralus or Ænima, the vocals that kick in from Maynard James Keenan are noted for sounding aggressive, similar to the band's earlier work, kicking in with the lines "Keep calm...keep calm...Fuck, here we go again!"
"[6] From there, the song enters an extended instrumental interlude, with guitarist Adam Jones going through many guitar riffs and guitar solos; with publications like Metal Hammer noting that, while many bands would build entire songs around the riffs, Tool instead runs through them once or twice and then moves on to the next one.
[5] Keenan breaks up the instrumental interludes to aggressively chant the phrase "A tempest must be just that", before the song breaks back into more instrumental interlude, including some squealing "Jimi Hendrix-esq solos before returning to softer, clean guitar notes reminiscent of the intro are played again as an outro.
[8] Loudwire deemed the song "the greatest achievement of guitarist Adam Jones' entire career.