Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

They're pretty obviously progressive metal, and maybe art rock sometimes? idk all I know is they brilliant.

Album Rating: 4.0

10k days is aight, i love me some wings for marie

Album Rating: 3.5

They were alternative nu-grunge

Album Rating: 4.5

10k Days is the best thing in 10 years. It's perfect.

Album Rating: 5.0

alternative nu-grunge

Album Rating: 4.5

10k Days is the best thing in 10 years. It's perfect.



It’s up there with the best (not gonna argue 13 vs 10 years, I’ll just say it’s one of the best albums of the past 13 years).. But my favorite album of the past decade is probably Manchester’s Black Mile to the Surface. Fucking masterpiece.

Album Rating: 4.5

Also, Fear > 10k Days imo.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'll have to check that out. But yea, I was rounding to the nearest 10 in that comment. Those extra 3 years are in limbo.

Album Rating: 4.5

Fair enough. Definitely give it a listen man, it’s simultaneously some of the most haunting and beautiful music I’ve ever heard. Just incredibly cohesive, the transitions are utterly seamless.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Imagine having your entire identity on this website revolve around not liking Tool?

Album Rating: 4.0

"You think it wouldn’t have happened if they had been steadily putting out releases between the last album and this one?"



I imagine it wouldn't have. I mean, Tool releasing an album has always been an 'event' but this album had almost become mythical. But then again, as Larkin pointed out, both 10K and Lateralus made it to #1 on Billboard too, though to be fair that was in an era where rock music was probably quite a bit more relevant to the mainstream than it is now.

Album Rating: 5.0

imagine being an edgy maverick that follows no rules but his own.

Album Rating: 1.0

A Black Mile to the Surface is a masterpiece.

Album Rating: 4.0

"They both meander incessantly without ever reaching that explosive point that justifies the preceding chord progressions in a plausible way."

To an extent that opinion is justified on this album because of MJK's performance. But holy hell is that off the mark about Lateralus. The Grudge alone has not one but TWO of my favourite gloriously cathartic crescendos.

“They both meander incessantly without ever reaching that explosive point that justifies the preceding chord progressions in a plausible way.”

I def agree with that criticism for this one but I’m having a hard time seeing how Lateralus fits that description. The only main track that really feels that way to me is Reflection but that track does it way better than anything here

Album Rating: 4.5

"Fair enough. Definitely give it a listen man, it’s simultaneously some of the most haunting and beautiful music I’ve ever heard. Just incredibly cohesive, the transitions are utterly seamless."



I'll be on it this week. Don't know why I haven't heard of it before. I knew bullshitting in forums had some purpose.

Album Rating: 5.0

Dude wait till you jam Lipan Conjuring and Viginti Tres on 10K. Top 5 Tool tracks get hyped.

Damn Sitar ninja’d me with the same thoughts

Album Rating: 4.0

Ha! Sorry Jester. But yeah, the bit in The Grudge where the band builds up to MJK singing "and sinking deeper!" and then there's that slight pause before the whole band comes in. That's a masterclass in tension building and release.

The Grudge is a pretty dope song tbh, defo one of the Tool picks I'm happy to go back to (plus I like that 5/4 phrasing that drives it from the start)