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Tool - Undertow (CD)

Album Details: Undertow

Release Date:05/15/2006
Label:Volcano
UPC:614223105222

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User Reviews: Undertow

  • Overall:

    Tool are the gods of music

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 15, 2003 | 1 out of 1 found this Undertow review helpful

    This is such a great album. I listened to it over and over and I still am overwhelmed by how aggressive and soothing the music can be. These guys are geniuses.

  • Overall:

    High quality

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 28, 2002 | 1 out of 1 found this Undertow review helpful

    If you appreciate good, highly inventive and moving music then buy this and Tool's other albums. Come on, you know you want to!

Pro Reviews: Undertow

  • All Music Guide

    Just as grunge was reaching its boiling point and radio-friendly power punk loomed on the horizon, Tool released Undertow, which firmly reinforced metal's prominence as a musical style -- but, for once, it had something worthwhile to say. At the forefront of Tool's commercial explosion were striking, haunting visuals that complemented the album's nihilistic yet wistful mood. Drawing equal inspiration from Black Sabbath, alternative theories of science, and Eastern religions, Tool's abrasive sonic assault begins from the opening notes and continues through the final moments of the last composition, an open mockery of organized religion and its incapacity for original thought. With its technical brilliance, musical complexities, and aggressive overtones, Undertow not only paved the way for several bands to break through to the mainstream adolescent mall-rage demographic, it also proved that metal could be simultaneously intelligent, emotional, and brutal.

    - Rob Theakston, All Music Guide

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Tool

Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock. Or maybe it was introducing the self-absorbed pretension of art rock to the wearing grind of post-thrash metal -- the order really doesn't matter. Though Metallica wrote their multi-sectioned, layered songs as if they were composers, they kept their... Read more