Summary from 70 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated TOOL's catalog across 7 albums from 70 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated TOOL album is Ænima (1996) with a 9.5/10 average from 7 ratings, followed by Undertow and Lateralus. The discography on Wavelength spans 1992 to 2019. Lateralus ranks as the highest-rated TOOL song on Wavelength with a 9.9/10 average.
Fear Inoculum
“There comes a point in a person’s fandom where one just stops caring. You get older. You move on. You become someone different. Tool – the Los Angeles progressive metal band, but really, so much more than that – have never faced such a problem. It’s now been 13 years since the band released their seminal fourth album ‘10,000 Days’, named thus, it’s believed, after the amount of time singer Maynar”
Ænima
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Tool’s marvelous 1996 album, a long and heady trip that ushered in a new age of hard rock.”
Lateralus
“You need time to deal with Lateralus — a lot more than the seventy-seven minutes it takes just to play the whole disc. And for much of that time, you will wonder: What the fuck is going on here? Drums, bass and guitars move in jarring cycles of hyperhowl and near-silent death march. The mix […]”
Fear Inoculum
“Musically, Tool have taken the best of Lateralus's dynamism and the heaviness of 10,000 Days to explore the middle ground with great length on Fear Inoculum. Those who stuck it out through the decade-plus wait won't mind hanging around a little longer until the album's close.”
10,000 Days
“Tool’s dense, often quasi-religious lyrics have always been among the most overwrought in mainstream metal — no small feat. But the music has such anthemic power that even the most cynical listener can find himself chanting along to lines like "To ascend, you must die!/You must be crucified!" On 10,000 Days, their fourth album, Tool […]”
Salival
“Tool seemed profoundly out of place on the Ozzfest tour three years ago. It was easy to stick out among the growls, rap-rock rhythms and boilerplate pierced-eyebrow image of the baby neo-metal bands that surrounded them. The year before, at Lollapalooza, frontman Maynard James Keenan wore false breasts and a whitened face. At Ozzfest, the […]”
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