Tool Post News On New Album
Band Photo: Tool (?)
Tool look to have begun recording their long-awaited new album and have been visited by many a guest while in the studio, including Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age, King Buzzo of Melvins and Aaron Turner of Isis. While it is not likely any of the aforementioned artists will be contributing to the album, photos of the sessions can be found online in the blogs located here.
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35 Comments on "Tool Post News On New Album"
7. writes:
It's hard to say Tool isn't heavy metal, considering how strong their distortion is on many of their songs. They have a "lighter" tone for how they play, but that's most recently only Lateralus. Their type of music is considered art-metal, and is quite hard to describe because it's a new type of metal unseen before. Maynard is a master of his art, and that is he can "compose" masterpiece music.
Though seen differently as I, Tool fans should know that they are a metal band. The qwerky time-changes, including going down to slow-time does not mean they are alternative. Many things need to be know: first off, alternative was created by late-80's/early-90's grunge bands. Grunge music is alternative, and is where it all began. Nirvana was an amazing band, but they were grunge-rock and therefore alternative. Despite powerful lyrics and memoralbe rythms, they were not metal like Tool. See the difference, and most-definately, hear the difference.
I don't like to rant, but people need to learn the music they like and love so much that they can attempt to complain about it. Tool is good, they have strange stuff, but those members of the band understand how to compose music. They don't write music, they just do the sh** that people wish they could: they sit around and play, and then they mix and match everything and make these compilations that sway people.
It's all amazing, and try to understand the music Tool composes is unique and that they created their own style of metal, sliding in to be one of the most powerful modern, if not only surviving, good-and-long-lasting rock and roll bands of the decade, and more to come.
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11. writes:
Ahhhh... a new tool album. A long wait, but it will all be worthwhile when the dam* thing comes out.
Anyway, I heard its supposed to be alot heavier than Lateralus, so those of you who consider Tool to be alternative will undoubtedly be surprised.
It's going to be so good... I can hardly wait.
Remember to take your daily dose of breakfast.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Peace~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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15. writes:
f***ing fantastic band.
Their the middle rung of my 3 favorite bands with progressive rock as a major musical influence. The heaviest of the 3 is Opeth, Tool fits neatly in the middle and Porcupine Tree who are much more prog rock with metal instrumental elements than pure prog.
If you like one of those bands I can't imagine how you can't love them all.
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17. writes:
Granted Melodic-death metal is fitting but theres way too many prog-rock elelemts to ignore in Opeth.
The clean vocals, the harmonies, the use of moog, keyboard, harmonium, melotron etc, the riff and times changes, even the notes and distorion used is fitting of the prog label....folk elements are present as well but not quite as dominant as the death and prog....I ramble.
18. writes:
Prog rock can be hella cheezy but some of it is really good. King Crimson was good for like the first 4 albums, but proggesh stuff like Rush and Tangent totally sucks. I actually think the majority of it kind of blows hard, but I respect the hell out of the bands because they are super talented, they just don't make songs that catch my interest. Tool are cool though.
20. writes:
Fine taste RememberMetal?. Three of the best. Did you hear Anathema's A Natural Disaster, they really started to prog out on that one after the Radioheadisms of A Fine Day to Exit.
Tool aren't metal, they defy genre labelling. They are Tool. Their genre is Tool. Live it, love it.
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22. writes:
i could give a f*** what tool is classified as, they've been called art-metal, prog-metal, prog-rock, alt-metal and everything in between. what they are is different from anything anyone's ever done, and i cannot f***ing wait for the new album, and especially the new tour which i get goosebumps even talking about.
23. writes:
Tool r psychadelia, top notch lyrics! music which blows ur mind, keeping u from hearing all those other worthy artists, its just difficult to tell u where ull be taken but its definitely far from where u are! a mix of metaphors, old philosophy and beautiful arts thats Tool.
there r few bands whose future work i await with such hope as these guys.
by tha way tool music is considerd as mix of heavy metal, psychadelia and grunge.
im a big tool fan and i wich to have some tool fans as friends, so add me korn025@hotmail.com
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27. writes:
And, yes. Tool's lyrics are out of body.................at the moment, I'm not sure how, but they are. It's just known whenever Tool's being played. Atleast with people who understand............:) Might I add, that Tool is extremely erotic...........in and of the band itself.
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28. writes:
Thanks theressh**onthewalls.
Those three bands are my life blood at times. I've actually been meaning to check out Anathema, a friend once suggested them to me.
And yes I agree completely, Tool are an entity unto themselves, they represent the best aspects of rock and music in general.
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1. roadkill4supper1 writes:
whens the f***ing thing comin out