10,000 Days - Tool

Ever the most interesting band, TOOL made us wait five years after their previous release Lateralus to grace our speakers with new music. I awaited the CD with a certain sense of expectation, though tempered with a feeling of nervousness that the contents would not be to my taste, that I would be disappointed with the results and the wait. So was I slipped the CD into the computer and unfolded the headphones over my ears. Music slipped from the tiny speakers into my ear canals: the clipped sound of Adam Jones' guitar, so distinct and unique flooded my senses. Expectation was about to be filled. For those who have no knowledge of TOOL, ...  Read the complete review

With the right Tool... 10000 Days (Cd) I have put forth a real effort in my life to further explore Music in all it's glorious variety. This is a trip I've taken many times in my life, although each trip into Musical discovery has taken a different path. "Metal" isn't a genre I've explored greatly, but I've had my favorites from way back. In 2006, while delving through the library's music catalogs under "Metal", I happened across a band that I had heard of (...vague memories of half-forgotten music...) but never consciously listened to, hmmm... "Tool". I requested their "10,000 Days" CD and thought little more about it, ...  Read the complete review

Carefully constructed and precisely executed, this album provides a rich and vaired listening experience. Tool have been engineering intelligent rock music for nearly 20 years now - evolving through classic hard metal to their distinctly progressive style of rock. 10,000 Days is rhythmically stunning (with drummer Dan Carey holding together some extremely unusual metres and time signatures), musically haunting (with heavy use of meditative-like chanting, cyclic melodies and unusual recording techniques (see pipe bomb microphone on "Jambi") and lyrically gripping. Highlights include the opener "Vicarious" which deals with the sadistic side ...  Read the complete review

...Introduction... 10,000 days is the fourth studio album from the Los Angeles based progressive metal band Tool. It 10,000 days was recorded at O'Henry Studios in Burbank, California as well as at The Loft and Grandmaster Studios in Hollywood, California. It is an exceptionally recorded album. The album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim, The album also won a grammy for "Best Hard Rock Performance" It has also been a big hit with fans as In the two years so far since it's release the album has sold more than 2,750,000 copies worldwide. ...Artwork... The artwork for the album is a really interesting, it features ...  Read the complete review

At various times in history there have been geniuses in the world who have written music. Whether their IQ's were higher or their intellectual capacity and rapid thought process were evolved they have created some of the greatest music of all time. From Beethoven to Mozart or Rush to Pink Floyd every generation has a couple. But in my generation there has been an evolution of music that rapidly progressed in the 80's and 90's and one of those bands has out evolved them all... their name is Tool. Take the creative intelligent writing of Rush, Floyd and Zeppelin and mix it with a man who probably has a higher IQ than 3/4's of the world and a drummer who surpasses Neal Pert ...  Read the complete review