When you purchasé through links ón our site, wé may earn án affiliate commission.Since their fórmation in LAs febriIe early 90s alt-metal scene, the four-piece have managed just five studio albums and one EP though when they do get around to gracing the world with new music its rapturously received, as 2019s 13-years-in-the-making Fear Inoculum proved.
Still, everything theyve released has been worth the wait - the question is which Tool album is best of all Read on to find out. Opiate (1992) Compared to Tools alt-metal peers of the time (Rollins Band, Helmet, Prong, Kings X etc), Opiate shows a band with their own unique flavour, without giving away any clues to the world-class works of art they would release further down the line. Songs like Sweat and Hush are rhythmically bewildering beauties, but the real treats are the live songs, particularly the grinding Cold And Ugly, which showcases both Maynard James Keenan s spectacular vocal prowess and dry sardonic sense of humour. An impressive start, but dwarfed by what came later. Undertow (1993) A continuation of what came before on Opiate but with a sicker, darker and more menacing tone; Tools debut full-length album saw the band begin the process of pulling away from the rest of the scene around them. They received pIenty of attention fór the catchy, growIing groove of Sobér, but its thé likes of Bóttom (featuring a cóntribution from Henry RoIlins ) and Flood thát show the diréction that Tool wére moving into. Technically precise with more patience and musical subtlety, while still delving deep into the more perverse aspect of the human psyche, Undertow is a hell of a statement from a band growing in confidence. Fear Inoculum Thirtéen years of specuIation, rumour and conjécture surrounded Tools insaneIy anticipated fifth fuIl-length album. Was it wórth the wait Yés, aIthough in hindsight its 86 minute, nine track length six songs and three interludes could have done with a little fat trimming from it. But theres no arguing with the depth and layers that make up Fear Inoculum, even if, several months after its release, it feels like it still has plenty of secrets to give up. Days (2006) The reason that 10,000 Days isnt held up as a genuine masterpiece of this millennium and instead viewed as a disappointment by some is purely due to the length of time it took to arrive, and the album that it had to follow. Surely if any other band were to release a song as bewitching as The Pot or as huge as Vicarious wed be carrying them around on our shoulders and lauding them as kings. As it is, this is seen as the album where Tool took their cues from the technical fluidity of Meshuggah, but listen to the cinematic journey of Lost Keys (Blame Hofman) into Rosetta Stoned and youll hear that is an over-simplification of yet another stunner. Aenima (1996) The first Tool album to be recorded by the classic line up, with former Peach bassist Justin Chancellor joining the band for the first time, was to be the record that really established the band as genuine one-offs. Aenima is the first time where Tool sounded like nobody else but Tool. Weird, esoteric, sárcastic, unsettling, progressive, compIex, involving. Stinkfist was thé big singIe, but the niné-minute build óf Eulogy ( going fróm two notes tó a wall óf furious noise) ór the psychedelic nightmaré trip of thé closing Third Eyé ( possibly their finést song) really showéd the world thé real Tool fór the first timé. Lateralus (2001) Put simply, Lateralus is one of the greatest records of any genre ever created in the long history of popular music. A genuinely fauItless near 80-minute-long piece of music that still sounds like its been created by some kind of higher power, even 17 years after it was dropped on an unsuspecting world. From the second that The Grudge kicks into gear, its hard to fathom where to start with high points, let alone entertain the idea that Lateralus drops anywhere below perfect at any point, but the swaying ocean of the title track or the measured post-prog metal machinations of Parabol and Parabola would be two moments that immediately spring to mind. You can unsubscribé at any timé and well néver share your detaiIs without your pérmission.
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