Biography

Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock. Though Metallica wrote their multi-sectioned, layered songs as if they were composers, they kept their musical attack ferociously at street level. Tool didn't. They embraced the artsy, faux-bohemian preoccupations of Jane's Addiction while they simultaneously paid musical homage to the dark, relentlessly bleak visions of metal and thrash. A slot on the third Lollapalooza tour in 1993 helped their debut album, Undertow, rocket to platinum status. Their three subsequent albums took almost 15 years to appear, but two of the three reached the top of the charts: 2001's Lateralus and 2006's 10,000 Days. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• Ænema

• Forty Six & 2

• Intolerance

• Opiate

• Prison Sex

• Schism

• Sober

• Stinkfist

• The Grudge

• The Pot

• Ticks & Leeches

• Vicarious

• Wings For Marie, Pt. 1

Discography

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• 10,000 Days

  Volcano 3 / Volcano/Tool Dissectional

  2006

• Lateralus

  Volcano 3 / Volcano Records

  2001

• Ænima

  Zoo/Volcano Records / Volcano Records

  1996