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Los Angeles, California, United States (1990 – present)
Formed around 1990 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, and original bassist Paul D’Amour, Tool is a band that is most noted for combining industrial rock with a wide variety of progressive structures, irregular time signatures and lyrics that range from angry diatribes to meditations on philosophical and social matters.
After performing a handful of shows in the Los Angeles area and up the West Coast, they toured in the United States with Primus in the summer of 1992 in support of their EP Opiate. Their first full length recording, Undertow, was released in 1993.
Emerging with a groovy heavy industrial sound on their first release, when the genre was dominated by post-punk, they were later seen at the top of the industrial metal movement with the release of their second full-length studio album Ænima in 1996, the first recording the band made after original bassist Paul D’Amour left the band. After an ongoing evolution of their sound and continuous efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution on Lateralus (2001), their most recent album 10,000 Days (2006), as well as respective tours, they are generally described as a style-transgressing act and part of progressive and art rock.
After performing a handful of shows in the Los Angeles area and up the West Coast, they toured in the United States with Primus in the summer of 1992 in support of their EP Opiate. Their first full length recording, Undertow, was released in 1993.
Emerging with a groovy heavy industrial sound on their first release, when the genre was dominated by post-punk, they were later seen at the top of the industrial metal movement with the release of their second full-length studio album Ænima in 1996, the first recording the band made after original bassist Paul D’Amour left the band. After an ongoing evolution of their sound and continuous efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution on Lateralus (2001), their most recent album 10,000 Days (2006), as well as respective tours, they are generally described as a style-transgressing act and part of progressive and art rock.
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NoOtherWay wrote:
Maynard better come to Europe after the new albums. It's been too fucking long since he was here and i won't accept him having a wineyard as an excuse again. Just get your ass here ffs!
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steven_nzl wrote:
Yeah maynards voice really did infiltrate in the earlier albums with a lot more anger, something that I miss in their more recent work. I guess his anger was our gift : )
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Dylbear wrote:
If when i say i might fade like a sigh if i stay, you minimize my movement anyway.
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KuRi91 wrote:
http://www.rainymood.com/ then listen the album Lateralus :)
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indiechick wrote:
So when I saw them earlier this month I'm pretty sure Maynard was next to me in a disguise. Before the opener finished he asked if we could save the seats and he never came back... It's driving me crazy! Haha.
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SheddingSerpent wrote:
@steven_nzl: See Michael Gira and his projects. Of course Maynard has a much better voice and developed angry singing a lot in a more technical and emotional way.
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steven_nzl wrote:
No, Maynards angry singing comes from Maynard.
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SheddingSerpent wrote:
Actually, Tool has influences from industrial rock, specificaly from Swans. That is were Maynard's angry singing in early days and Adam Jones' guitar play on some songs of the album Undertow come from.
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SheddingSerpent wrote:
"For some reason the more I listen to Tool, the more I hate DT... (:" It's exactely the same with me, maybe because DT members care more for technique than for creativity (excluding Kevin Moore) so their songs aren't as good from an artistic prespective.
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i_Chaos wrote:
the description always means so much...pffff...who gives a shit about the genre. i like the way they sound so i listen to it...couldnt care less if they called it pop.
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MortalSun wrote:
the description never lies. this is industrial rock!
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T0m_Me wrote:
"Tool is a band that is most noted for combining industrial rock with a wide variety of progressive structure". Industrial Rock.
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Lokhomo wrote:
@ austisrocker. No way man, he makes it sound like a nickelback song. The piano rendition is okay, but his singing just really messes the song up.
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OhJonathan wrote:
Tool can't suck. Haters can suck on Tool, though!
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indiechick wrote:
Can't wait to see Tool again in a few years haha
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peacexisxfree wrote:
tool radio...1 tool play (staticy useful idiot) out of 20 songs. thanks last fm.
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d4nism wrote:
rofl wtf nagchampa93
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maryaroxxstteam wrote:
Such an amazing band! love you guys! <3 \m/
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austisrocker wrote:
I mean, you really should check this out guys!! I never thought someone could actually cover TOOL songs and not suck big time!! But this dude is really freaking awesome...give him a chance; I'm not easily impressed, but this guy hit the spot! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_uR2ePrUU
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BlackTrudDeath wrote:
TOOL RULES, FOOLS. lol.
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