Greetings Chris. I'm sorry about your bad teen impressions. You can always get new 'woke' impressions as a middle aged white dude. Wait, that might not be good either...
on a different subject... i found this band called Mars Era, which sounds like Tool 1998.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKqwfXWiW1g&t=181s
then descend the rabbit hole.