10,000 Days
After a wait of nearly five years, Tool\'s fourth album picked up where the sprawling, careening *Lateralus* left off: guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Justin Chancellor churning out hypnotic riffs that cycle in improbable meters, drummer Danny Carey taking virtuosic spills across his kit, and the band exploring dark soundworlds via enigmatic interludes. This time, however, vocalist Maynard James Keenan moves somewhat away from the metaphysical and closer to the personal and political under dense, shifting musical tangles.
Rather than delving further into experimentation or exploring their strengths, the world's most well-loved prog-metal band has made an...A Perfect Circle record.
Thankfully, Tool has somehow managed to circumvent these rituals, releasing a record every four to five years as they so feel the need.
"Have you really lived 10,000 or more days, or have you lived one day 10,000 or more times?" asks American self-development guru Wayne Dyer. It's pretty clear that Maynard James Keenan asks the same question on Tool's long-awaited LP,
I love TOOL. I've loved them since first hearing the "Opiate" EP back in 1992, and both "Undertow" and "Aenima" are two of my favorite heavy rock albums of the Nineties. But lately, I would be lying if I didn't say that TOOL was starting to make me a little…fidgety. Like RADIOHEAD, the group has ...
When your band can fill a 15,000 seat hockey arena with punters willing to shell out 60 bucks to hear a skinny guy in leather hot pants covered head to toe...