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Los Angeles, California, United States (1990 – present)
There are three bands with the name Tool.
1. Formed around 1990 in Los Angeles, California, United States, Tool is a band that is most noted for combining hard 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 Rollins Band 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 metal sound on their first release, when the genre was dominated by thrash metal, they were later seen at the top of the alternative 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 to form Lusk. 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.
Their aspirational work features exceptionally long or complex releases, controversial lyrics and cover art, and unorthodox music videos, which results in a rather ambivalent relationship between the band and today’s music industry, at times marked by censorship, and the band’s ongoing struggle for privacy.
1. Formed around 1990 in Los Angeles, California, United States, Tool is a band that is most noted for combining hard 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 Rollins Band 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 metal sound on their first release, when the genre was dominated by thrash metal, they were later seen at the top of the alternative 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 to form Lusk. 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.
Their aspirational work features exceptionally long or complex releases, controversial lyrics and cover art, and unorthodox music videos, which results in a rather ambivalent relationship between the band and today’s music industry, at times marked by censorship, and the band’s ongoing struggle for privacy.
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Lateralus
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10,000 Days
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Ænima
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Undertow
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Shoutbox
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GeneralSkar wrote:
Well, would you look at that? Justified spamming. Music sounds better on their myspace. http://www.myspace.com/saotn
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Silentnoisein wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INySdMMaobQ something interestin', i think...
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NINeINChNAiLS99 wrote:
airman13579 .....if anything, the mars volta is like TOOL. not the other way around. i love both bands but u gotta give TOOL the respect
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NINeINChNAiLS99 wrote:
feeling eternal, all this pain is an illusion
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SeidunaHasan wrote:
end_y, do you like power metal? I bet you do.
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LuluVi wrote:
(using end_y's logic), sludge metal has nothing to do with metal...oh wait, end_y had an epiphany since you know...it's Isis lol. and Tool isn't metal, it's progressive. just because it says "metal" in "progressive metal" doesn't mean metal has anything to do with that genre..... Tool has had a big influence, it ticks you off end_y, for whatever reason. your trolling failed. give up.
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S_Jalo_niminen wrote:
I find end_y's opinions slighlty amusing. Naturally making oneself familiar with the subject helps forming opinions of that matter but does "years of listening" count as familiarizing? Secondly, with end_y's logic no one but theologians can say a thing about christianity for example. It seems to me that end_y doesn't count band as metal, if end_y doesn't like it (this is common with metal listeners). Here lies another problem however: what is metal? Which is more metal for example: Swallow the Sun or Slayer? How to you define metal then? Suddenly it all comes down to relativity and subjectivity. If we continue this way - searching for true metal - we collapse into simple aristotelean logic: there is an idea of metal, which only could be metal in a case of, where everything that makes it metal is stripped off. In other words metal never can't be metal.
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
The only thing worse than a dumb metalhead is a smartass metalhead. And don't tell me you aren't a metalhead because your attitude is shitty enough to qualify you as one. You don't listen to this band, you don't like this band, why the fuck are you posting here? Are you trying to educate others? FAIL
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end_y wrote:
GeneralSkar: If you're interested in pain and limitations of existence, expressed both musically and lyrically, you should try "Obscura" by Gorguts, it is a literally painfull experience.
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end_y wrote:
LuluVi: Since I'm a metal listener and your are not, my opinion on what is metal and what is not is apriori more ponderable. To find out the truth you have few options that I've listed below, and your decision is to stay stubborn and uneducated. Well, sad for you.
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airman13579 wrote:
Tool is a lot like The Mars Volta. Progressive, intelligent, pissed off... one of my favorite combinations.
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GeneralSkar wrote:
That's as cheesy as they can get, outside of what they do at barbecues. I don't see how this looks bad though. Tool shows up a lot more human and less of a caricature than other bands. Most heavy metal bands are about creating this macho fantasy, while goth bands try to instill a sense of dread and pain, and their photo shoots and artwork follow suit. Tool seems to only be fascinated by and curious about pain and the limitations of existence. These photos fit in that way. I think the other reason they did it is because of Adam Jones' wife's band.
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
They're tools.
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HareMettleAdlib wrote:
Tool in an abattoir. Ugh, how cheesy can they get.
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ThiDesRe wrote:
What the fuck z0z0bra, are you in every shoutbox or something?
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
The riffs in the intro of Vicarious = EARGASM
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LuluVi wrote:
end_y, your trolling fails, your straw man fallacies, err, i mean analogies...fail. give up.
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jeanfranco99 wrote:
Vicarious is a masterpiece-both lyrically and musically
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Raff_waz_here wrote:
New?
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blondevagabonde wrote:
i agree!
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