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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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Sober
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The Patient
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Shoutbox
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Nath1993 wrote:
Tool, once your next album is out, please come to Northern Ireland/Ireland!
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
APC is another world altogether... the instrumentation is different, the lyrics are different, the overall feeling is different, even MJK's style of singing is different. You could never mistake an APC song for a Tool song and vice versa. Judith comes close to the Tool sound, but would still feel out of place on a Tool album.
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polarrbear wrote:
No, Harvad
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mhanclk wrote:
no comment. I have not seen like tool yet. they re amazing people.
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GeneralSkar wrote:
To say that there's nothing they have in common otherwise is a little bit off. They're both prog rock for starters. Puscifer is much closer to being nothing alike. They're plenty different, mind you, but it's not like comparing Joe Satriani to Kanye West, in terms of music that is.
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MarcoM14 wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+wish+they+had+super+powers Join us, you get superpowers.
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RafaelSky wrote:
You mean HarvaRd?
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Wagggggy wrote:
LIFE FEEDS ON LIFE FEEDS ON LIFE FEEDS ON LIFE
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moreplz wrote:
JOIN THE OFFICIAL HARVAD UNIVERSITY GROUP! http://www.last.fm/group/Harvad+University
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mooiboyfres wrote:
i agree with annadraconida but getting sick of reacting on every comment made on tool. He/she blames people who dont like the band and say bad things about tool. But if annadraconida is a big fan by him/her self it isnt very objective either.
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AMindlessChrist wrote:
i agree with annadraconida
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
Why the hell do people insist on comparing Tool & APC? The only thing they have in common is the singer, FFS
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polarrbear wrote:
HEAR ME NOW, I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!
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MazzJaster wrote:
apc (a perfect circle) is where its at tho theyre better in my opinion
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UnspokenHero wrote:
What Wubzilla said, period. Felixtehbeaver, dude who the hell doesn't know Tool? It's like people complaining about how everyone listens to The Beatles after their rockband game. (lol)
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GeneralSkar wrote:
It's Intension, but yes it does deserve to be up there. Work hard, stay in school, listen to your mother.
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kuladeandahalf wrote:
intention needs to be on that chart.
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unsmith wrote:
ffs put out a new album already
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
Metalheads bore me.
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Crimson-Dawn wrote:
This band bores me.
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