New Albums / CDs

I am not quite sure what to think of the new TOOL. I am a HUGE fan and I was really looking forward to the CD coming out. I must say though I am a little dissapointed. The only songs that have really grabbed me so far are Jambi, Vicarious and The Pot. I have had enough of the useless strange noises and sounds that seem to take up most of the record. I want to hear Maynards raw vocals.....Still not sure yet...
Semi-Dissapointed Hardcore TOOLFAN

If it pisses off the hardcore fans it's probably great because that probably means it's not fucking BORING. Tool's at their best when negative, cynical angry and trying to shove a wall of sound through your head.

I just downloaded the entire album and i heard it in its entireity over and over and over to get used to the new but still very familiar sound. at first vicarious was the only song that i was impressed by, the others just seemed like something much too different for a tool record but i can now say im completely in love with this album (with the exception of lipan conjuring and viginti tres). Tool has once again proved to be a powerful unit that can make a difference. I'm definitely going to buy this when it comes out on the 2nd of May and Im kind of bummed out that it leaked; it sort of ruined the whole excitement and experience of buying that record and not knowing what its going to sound like.
I'd give this a 9/10 i would give it a 10/10 if it weren't for lipan conjuring and viginti tres which were a complete waste of 6 n a half minutes. i wouldve preferred one song covering that time slot that actually had music

am a huge fan as well, i LOVE the new album, think it's the best from previous releases combined. brilliant. think it's great that they don't make the same music over and over, but keeps it interesting for themselves to keep on making new and good music. imagine having to write the same book over and over? who would that really please? yourself? no. your fans? no.
i actually bought the album in the store today (live on the countryside, they obviously don't know anything about release dates...), and i can say you all have something to look forward to regarding the true, and not digital format, of the album, tool really has outdone themselves! best album cover ever !!!!!!!

p.s.
my favorite so far is rosetta stoned - brilliant!

Have to say I am loving the new album, I think it may turn out to be their best work... but, of course, it took time to grow on me, and it will take more time to grow on me still.

What a massively impressive piece of work. I'm a major fan here since the Opiate days, and I must say that at first I was a little let down, mainly because there are no "easy" songs to immediatly latch onto on here, save for maybe Vicarious, which is the most familiar-sounding of all of them.

But after listening to this from beginning to end several times, my opinion has gone from being initially a little disappointed to being completely enamored with this record. There is so much going on here, and each time you listen you get a little more of the bigger picture.

The key here is subtlety. Every little sound on this record makes sense. It just doesn't do so immediately. I hated Dark Side of the Moon the first time I heard it, too. I thought it was a meandering mess that had few actual "songs." Now I hold it on the highest of high pedestals. So...

Aenima has better individual songs, but as an entire work, 10,000 Days inches out Lateralus as their best album. It has killer production values and seemingly bottomless depth. Phenomenal, and Tool's DSotM.

so the full album is now aviable to download?
Can Anybody post the link, I´m a big fan and, so i will buy the cd when it comes out,(just artwork worth it), but I would like to listen to it now, so please if some bady can give me the link, I´ll apreciate, Thanks

At first i was very disappointed with 10,000 days - only liking about 4 songs. But then i listened to it all again, and i find another song catchy... listen to it more, like everything more and more. The only songs i dont have interest in yet are 6, 7, and 11.

I LOVE TOOL... ANYTHING THEY DO IS GOING TO KICK ASS!!!! ... ITS ABOUT TIME THERE IS SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE MUSIC WORLD...

Damn all of you really, regardless of wether your going to buy the album tomarrow (may 2) or not your still stealing music, and who are you then to mock/pick at and review a band of this caliburs music, if you cant bring your self to listen to a 15 minute song of just 'noise' then you by all means have a ways to go before you can critisize any one. now on a related note, ive had the pleasure of having the cd for about three weeks now, (note i said the cd, not a downloaded copy, or leaked music) and as a fan of music, this album is amazing, as a tool fan, its duely noted, a well put together and rythmically insane journey through an entire 11 track masterpiece of alot more heavy music than the last tool release. (on a side note, this would be tools 5th release, in order opiate, undertow, Ænema, lateralus and now 10,000days. not including the live release salival between Ænema and lateralus.)

I have had the Tool album now for a few days. I got it off the internet because I could not wait any longer and some of us are not privileged enough to have gotten it three weeks ago. I am going to buy it on CD and on vinyl today, when it comes out. So, Tool will still get my ten cents they get when an album is sold, and the record company will get the rest. As for those who bother comparing this album with other Tool albums, shame on you. Anyone who is O.T.G. knows that Tool is all about the music. (and if you don’t know what O.T.G. is your not a real fan anyways) That is why you don’t see them in spot lights when they perform. Each album is its own entity, and stands on its own. This album is nothing short of a master piece. If you had to listen to it more then once to get over your disappointment with it, then I am sorry, you just didn’t get it. I get goose bumps still on every song and it is all I have listen to for the last four days. From the fist moment I herd it I knew I was hearing the sounds of greatness. Everything from its polyrhythmic sounds to the subject matter of the songs is just incredible. I did not wait five years for a new tool album to come out just so it could be called anything less then awesome. I think some people are afraid because they think the songs are too long or because Maynard’s vocals are not mixed out in front and they’re more blended in with the music. Like Maynard says, there’s no love in fear. But what do I know? I only have a music degree, the rest of you just listen to music.

P.S. To Miss smarty pants up there, this is Tools fourth full length album in order, undertow, Ænema, lateralus and now 10,000days. Opiate is an E.P.

So... here I am reading all your negative comments and you admit to downloading our music illegally. You think we don't search for stuff like this? Wow! I hate North Americans... enjoy our album.

Just got the album in the mail today, all stores in Melbourne ran out of copies the day it came out!!!

The first thing that grabbed me was the psychdelic 3d imagery, this is definitely the coolest album cover i've ever seen...

Listened through the album only once now, but I'm really impressed. There's a nice flow between songs, and it seems like the album is actually one 77 minute long song.

Great production as well, listening to it on surround sound in my room, you really get a feeling of a 3d soundscape.

Now, I've listened to tool for years, and until now, undertow would have to be my favourite album. But so far, this album is amazing.

To all the wankers who try to turn this into a "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff" (or vice versa) argument... fuck off and listen to your tool collection again. Then come back and give us your opinion. Seems to me that this is a natural progression in sound and style for tool... and it kicks ass over any other bullshit i've bought or heard on the radio recently.

Great work danny, justin, maynard and adam.

Its bloody tops mate.

Haven't you guys ever heard of Beethoven, Bach, Bartok, Brahms, Mingus, Mozart, Scheonberg, or Stravinski? I mean, Tool is good and everything, but you all talk about it like you're looking for the secret to all transcendance in art or something. If you have the patience to listen to an hour and 15 minutes of weird sound effects and bizarre lyrics, you should have the patience to listen to a ten minute movement of a Beethoven symphony, (written by a tortured deaf genius. Tell me that's not interesting!). But I guess if you're still taking plastic peepstones on an album cover seriously you have a ways to go...

I dont care what anybody to the next somebody says about the album. Its amazing. Tool all the way. Of course tool always takes sometime to get the feel of each song. Isnt that what musics all about? to feel the music. Thats why they're great. Because they dont just put a song out their with simple minded shit for the simple minded people. Anywho, They still got it..

today i ate an eight of mushrooms and i called off work to go buy the tool album and it is getting me through the day brilliantly i am getting lost in the pure genius of it.........

Just bought the album today, managed to play one song in the car on the way home from work (vicarious which radio has already picked up) and was hooked. Got the CD home and thought, "hey, even if the CD sucks, the case alone was worth the 10 bucks". I'm now on my third listen and I don't anticipate bothering with sleep tonight. Yes, the album IS different from previous releases, But that is and always has been the beauty of Tool - No two albums really sound alike. (Wanna make yourself smile and shake your head at their genius? Pop in Opiate or even Undertow for a play, then follow it up with 10,000 Days. I defy you to find another band that could create such completely different sounds yet still create them as masterpieces in their own right.) 10,000 Days is haunting, mezmerizing and emotionally inspiring. Maynard, Justin, Adam and Danny have come together again to create a beauty most people will never even comprehend. Open your minds if you really want to appreciate this.

This cd actually is really really good. I listened to it the first time in the car and hated it. Their is something about the way this cd is mixed that makes it not sound good thru large stock stereo speakers. You cant hear maynard over the base. Listening again thru headphones changed my mind completely. This CD is amazing.

Well i won't lie and say i didn't download vicarious when it first came out on the radio. It striked me as being similar, but a step forward from schism. After buying the album and listening it to it's entirety, i must say i am quite pleased. The album has similarities to every other tool cd, but taken a leap further. The band has once again made a masterpiece of art. I've always loved the fact that Justin can sound more like a guitarist at times than Adam, but i love some of the heavy bass riffs dropping on this album, perhaps the most since Undertow (which had Paul D'amour on bass instead).
I also love that this album's lyric's are at times a bit more personal than past (wings for marie and 10000 days).
Tool is amazing and will go down in history as my generation's pink floyd.

My favorite part of this album is on the title track 10,000 days. When the vocals have a harmony that matches the simplified bass line at about 5:25. It gives me chills. I expect I will come to realize more moments like this as I become familiar with the album.

After waiting, what, four years for Tool to
put out a new album I must say my anticipation
level was high. I rushed to the store and
spent, no wasted, the money to purchase the
album. They had one good song on the CD, and
interesting enough the only one that has or will
get radio play. The album was a lack of effort
on the part of Tool and I'm not going to lie,
if sucked. After listening 10,000 days, i put in
my favorite tool album, lateralus and was happy to remember at least they made four good
cds before the went into the mystical abyss of
crap. the same abyss that took korn, marylin manson and metallica too. Sorry all, but this is
the worst effort i've ever heard from one of
my favorite bands ever. Too bad.

Jambi by far is the best song on this CD. The sound effect songs really make it hard to listen to the cd in full (find myself jumping 6,7, & 11).

Well...do you really think that you would understood
what is going on with 10000 days after 2,3,56,1000 times listening to it?
I still find new things in lateralus and aenima... and i've been listening to them the last 6 years (5 for lateralus). Let 10000 days' music grow in your mind! I'm sure many magical things will happen after you do...

I WANT TO WATCH THEM LIVE!!!! OH PLEASE COME TO GREECE...

I have always considered tool a hard/psychadelic rock band. well they have dropped the hard and just became psychedelic. I have no problem with that. the music still paints a beautiful picture in my mind like all previous tool titles. their ability to articulate the message in a powerful way has not been lost, merely changed. it is a mellow album full of more personal bouts battled by maynard intensified with the bands amazing ability to sum up an emotion. find the lyrics read and listen. the picture becomes more vivid...check out the art work and relate it to the old videos/art they have made. its a progression, a growth, if you will. a beautifully written masterpiece. there will be more to come count on that. the story doesnt until they cease to exist.

This album is strong in a few places and yet predomoinantly weak. Fuck you Tool. Cool cover.

If you have problems with the album you are, in all likelihood, among the masses who cried sellout with each new album. Constantly reinventing yourself will eventually loose those who are not open enough to keep up. And remember nothing is without purpose or is just "noise" slap on some head phones, close your eyes and open yourself.

the album is great .probably the best made so far
by tool .But i have to say that some of you people give too much credit to the band ,and i mean here that they are great musicians,but the only simple thing that they did was to transfigure clasical music into rock music , and add some great lirics
i love the way they make their songs
even a song like viginti tres is very elaborated
Try and listen it realy loud!

I think the majority just dont get it.This is art imatating life. Nothing with TOOL is mindless noise...go back to your mtv and cnn...you are safe and ignorant there. This album is full of beutifully crafted puzzles that are NOT safe and you have to dig through oceans of soundscapes to find the meanings and formulas presented...(some songs more than others)This album concentrates on the multi-faceted sides of death immediately on the surface(whether personal or worldly).But, there is much more to this than meets the eye.....I really get a definite CRIMSON/FLOYD vibe here.
Get some decent headphones turn off the outside world and LISTEN (and diggggg)
And to those who chose to download 10,000 days,
you ruined the intension and are a typical human.

I like the album, but some of the tracks are far too long and self-indulgent. A few artsy tracks are fine, but there's too many long, tuneless tracks to listen to the album without skipping through it. Unlike Lateralus, which was heresy to touch the player until the album was complete.

Rosetta Stoned is a great track, ruined by the fact that they apparently hired a mentally ill, homeless man to mutter randomly into the mix through a raincoat.

I'd give the entire effort a B-.

Thank you Adam,maynard,dany,justin, this music has always allowed me to go somehere else,temporarily but still, away, i've always got it! please never stop doing what you do.....

i can finally take lateralus out of my cd player...now i won't be able to stop listening to 10,000 days....maybe in 10,000 days i'll get sick of it...rock on

TOOL ARE FUCKING GENIUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

blah, blah , blah wah, wah, wah, it's so funny people post comments about cd's like they wrote it themselves. Did I like it No, but so what.
If you do you like it great if you don't great.
No comprimising taste in music.

To me, TOOL is not your everyday "rock expierence" At first listen, I was pulled into the depth's of Maynards deep, yet creative vision. We all love the angry screams, but leave it to Maynard to approach the people with a message, that most are sure of, yet so many afraid of the masterpiece that has been created.
I'm looking foward to the arrival of the band here in Mpls. No drug could take the place of the feeling that comes over ones self as they do what comes natural.... ROCK ON!!!!

This album is really something.
i saw them live in oakland 2 days ago and they fuckin ripped the stage up

I LIKE THE NEW ALBUM
IM REALLY LIKING THE POT AND
Rosetta Stoned

Anyone else having problems with this CD not playing in their CD players?

Apparently on the cover art, within the 4 photos of the band members there is a puzzle conecting them all. if anyone can figure it our post the answer, i'm stumped.

awesome album... was first a little disappointed as i loved how hard some of the lateralus songs were and was waiting for maynard to go nuts on the vocals the first time i listened to it all the way. but each time i listen to it i pick up new parts of a song i didnt quite hear b4. awesome album...

This is..uh music? Actually i think its just a bunch of left over material from Lateralus slapped around some random sounds. This took a year to make?

I guess to each his/her own, but i cant be arsed to listen to it anymore.

I am blown away by the title song on this album... They lyrics, the audio sesory trip/thunder. You have to listen to this song on a kick azz system. Masterpiece.. This CD just showed all of us the maturity in music this band has. I am just freakin amazed.

i saw alot of similarities between this ablum and aenima. Part of it pisses me off like a certain guitar riff in roseta stoned sounds EXACTLY the solo in H. And another riff on right in two sounds like the ending of 46 and 2. Yet, since they are similar, I guess thats why I like the ablum so much. I'm glad I don't dislike it.

At first I think you only like what you're used to hearing, which would be the first, second and fifth songs. Once you start to take in the other songs though, it does start to make more sense to some, and probably drive others off, but hey, I could just be crazy.

Tool's new album, even with it's artsy idiotic cover, is just a bunch of damn noise that some of you pot heads will call, "amazing art." It's King Crimson meets Skinny Puppy.

I LOVED Tool's other albums. Hell, I played them until the friggin' disc wore out (not literally dumb ass). But this is a sad piece of crap.

Yeah well to you, former Tool fan, think what you want but (no offense)dont be shoving your disappointments into other fans faces who actually enjoy the sound of the album.

hey joe, it's a shame u dislike the new album so much, and label anyone who likes it as a "potheaad". i think pot can make some lame things seem "trippy", but this is beyond that, i mean c'mon, this is tool! maynard j keenan, hello?
don't u think that it's possible that they are still effecting the evolution of hard music from a 3rd party perspective, and that their current (in)conclusions are beyond that of your own ideas of what good music is or should be? would it be more probable that they've f***ed up or that your not there yet? theres alot more at play in their music than good rhythms and catchy hooks, theyre trying to help you help yourself, literally, what they present is here in us, hidden by what we know. i guess if its meant 2b you'll see, but just don't rule out the album art yet, u might wake up one relatively bright day to find it alive in front of you

10,000 days is so disappointing!!! Opiate was great, its raw and unpretentious. Undertow, which I think is tool's best album, though not my favourite, is a full lenght album, with good rifs, drums, singing etc. AEnima, well I think that where s*** went wrong!! Musically it's a great album, but lyrically it sucks! Somehow they thought they can be all so intellectual, singing crap about shadows and LA. I can't help making that connection to punkish boy bands who sings about their distaste for the rich, the US goverment, their own problems etc. Using big words like "confusion" and "shadows" If Maynard hates LA so much, move away!! Then tool fans think they're part of something bigger, that they're at a higher intellectual and spiritual state of mind. I almost believed that s**** to when Lateralus was released. Tool's crash course in Greek mythology almost got me on that one. Thinking they are some devine human beings. But hey, Lateralus is a F**KING masterpiece! Unlike 10000 days ofcourse! The first time I heard the album (downloaded from the net) I was hoping that I somehow got my hands on the "decoy" album. Unfortunately it wasn't it!
Vicarious, well it's an okay song. Almost something where Schism and the Grudge were chucked into a blender, added to it some of their so-called "epic" guitar rifs. There's almost no fluency in song. In the morning when i wake up the song still plays in my head, that repetativeness doesn't wanna go away. It gives me a migrain, and im on painkillers every day. Will have to sue their asses if I become addicted to that S*** again!
Jambi, what a boring song! Starts off great, then it fails into crap. THe all the sudden a guitar solo pops up and it to is crap!
Wings or whatever and pt.2,, it's like 10000 days of boredom with the same rif over and over and over and this grumbling of Maynard so puts me off. I seriously don't get it, maybe im not too much of a "deep thinker" or maybe the fans are in denial? Yes, that's it, THE FANS ARE IN DENIAL, they so badly want to hear that spiritual s***, they're actually believing it. You all suck TOOL DICK!!!
The rest of the album is all bad in the same way.
The only song that stands out is "the Pot". Such a cool song! The whole album is a like an interlude, with only 4 songs to listen to, where only half of it is good. SO, that mounts up to 2 songs!
THe band totally lost their focus on the music, trying too hard to make every damn song progressive/deverse as possible! Nothing is new on this album, it's like a Tool cliche! There's nothing, absolutely nothing special about it! It's almost as if everything was done in a few days. Any other band can do what they did! Also can't understand why we had to wait so long. It's secondhand crap that they are trying to sell us!!! Use some wierd names for songs (which aren't even real song, more like trying to fill the 80 min on the disc) and there u are with some deep s***!!! I can practice yoga and other spiritual bulls**t with that "deep S**t". U'll reach new frontiers and be able to lift Fire engines with your dick! Im sorry if i offend anyone out there, but there's something everyone has to realize in this world, and that is that I AM ALWAYS RIGHT! REpeat after me, I AM ALWAYS RIGHT! And if u really think that im sorry, im not! Thank you, suck my dick.
Apparently the artwork on 10,000 day is great, all Mystical and s***! I think MJK has been watching Xena, princess warior too much!!! IM sure as hell not going to buy a CD just for the artwork! Thank God the album leaked on the internet!!! PS. F**K u tool, suck my ass!!! Rather listen to LAmb Of God!!!!!!

Sorry i didnt realize that if you dont suck maynards dick (no pun intended) you arent a real tool fan... i could talk about every one of there albums in detail, but that doesnt mean im going to say their new cd is the best just because its new. I waited five years to be blown away like i was the second time i listened to lateralus... but after buying it, i asked myself - what the hell have they been doing for the past few years? theres only like 5 and a half songs - basically they did one song a year! what the fuck is up with that? 6 songs on an album with 11 tracks doesnt cut it and half of those are mediocre semi-generic tool tracks... nothing has really changed, if anything theyve de-evolved since lateralus - which had numerous hardcore, progressive tracks changing the way we listen to music. i could understand if maynard was busy with other projects and this cd had, say, an additional 2 or 3 crazy instrumental tracks - but its like danny carey is bored because he and maynard carry (no pun intended) the band - im not the best guitarist but even ive evolved more in my playing than adam jones - i know they try to perserve a certain signature sound that they have but the riffs are generally lacking originality and the one string solos are just boring - which i might add were great on previous albums.

some of the things ive said are obviously subjective, but i feel its a fair assement of the cd In Comparison to prvious albums - its a good cd, but i wouldve rather spent the 15 bucks on some weed and just downloaded it - if wasnt such a big fan that is....

You idiot bastards!!Any fan that posts something negative about Tool is a complete tool themselves. How the f*#k can you not like 10,000 Days. It is far better than most of the sh*t being made today. Each Tool album has shown progress in musical talent and the bands maturity. Opiate rocked and was raw, young and angry. Undertow kicks ass and really formed the foundation for Tool fans. Aenima is one of the hardest and best albums ever made. I haven't stopped listening to that album for 9 years. Lateralus showed another side of Tool. Every song builds to a climax unmatched by previous albums. And now 10,000 days shows a culmination of all the previous albums. It has the anger of Opiate, it has the core of what Tool's sound is which was created on Undertow, it has the vocals, song topics, hardcore riffs and basslines of Aenima, and it has the progressive songs which come to the Toolesque climaxes of Lateralus. 10,000 days should be praised as a great work of musical artistry. Every album represents a part of our lives and perhaps this album can't touch you the way the others did due to the current status of your life. So maybe when you mature you'll come to appeciate this album as many other mature Tool fans have. Tool will forever be a great band and only true fans of Tool will fully appreciate and accept what they create. Good day!

in the midst of all this input on why we like or dislike the new album, i'd like to share my belief that:
A: Nothing is "all that and a bag of chips"
and B: The members of tool (considering the immense pressure they are under to prevail etc.) have once again stayed true to their evolving formula by not accomodating their listeners based on what we will all enjoy, but by testing the limits of music itself and delving as far as allowed into the unknown and UNDEFINED.
how many of you can actually say that you REALLY see through or understand 100% of what these guys put forward???
My hat goes off to anyone who can keep it together under such cicumstances and stay on track with THEIR legacy.

The complexity of the new Tool album has left me utterly speachless!! I love how they totally harmonize their instruments with Maynard's fantastic vocals. I have always been a HUGE Tool fan ever since I first bought Opiate on it's release date and I must say that this album proves why they have been titled " the Pink Floyd of the Y generation." The pure maniacal genius of Maynard's lyrics combined with the totally un-duplicatable drum patterns of Danny Carey combine to make this the greatest album since Undertow. I am now and forever committed to the works of Tool and I sincerely hope that they never put out an attrocity like Lateralus again. Sincerely yours, Fuck your opinion and Fuck you for judging me!!, St. Louis, MO

Oh and by the way, this cd probably won't be so enjoyable for anyone who hasn't took a pure form of Dex, smoked Salvia, took Shrooms, or a hit or two of Acid. To all those weak "I don't do it because it's wrong" individuals I say fuck you!! The pure unimaginable happiness and/or terror of psychoactive drugs are something to be embraced and indulged upon. I first started because of a line sung in a Tool song about not knowing whether they would come down and I have never looked back since. This album is the new aged equivalent of "Dark Side of the Moon" and is, of course, better experienced while laughing and playing in a psychadellic wonder world which can only be experienced through the use of hallucinogenic products.

Everybody calm down and remember........we all have different musical tastes, and I am damn glad we do. If not, we would have a very stale repertoire of recorded material to choose from. If someone doesn’t like the new album, don’t fucking attack them! Otherwise this would just be another tool fan site. Comments should have yin and yang. Music is the most beautiful thing mankind has done, but it just can't be enjoyed by everyone. (Once again, just an opinion)

I know HOW to solve the puzzle.
A few more things to look at and I will be done.

yes...salvia and tool...~!?!?!~

so all of my friends got the album b4 it came out. this is what i heard "you re not gonna like the album, i dont like it, this person doesnt like it, he doesnt like it, she doesnt like, if we all dont like it, i know u arent goin to like it" so then i heard it, and i do like very much, thank u i can think for myself, just because theres no hardcore breakdowns, because thats the new black these days. im not one of those diehard jackasses who think that a band that i adore so much will never release bullshit, i have been let down by so many bands, but not this one. i mean come on these same ppl saying the 10,000 days blew are in love w/ "with teeth" sayin its better than pretty hate machine. surely pretty hate machine was lame but good at the same time. but jesus at least they put some thought into the packaging, now the danny's gona trent just wants to be "the rockstar" as oppose to a rockstar. dont get me wrong i like with teeth, but come on if u like that so much, then where the hell did tool go wrong. every1 listen to 10,000 days, like it, hate it, i really dont care, just dont go trying to bring other ppl down because its not to your liking, ppl can think for themselves, its not like adolf passed the flag down to u, especially for something as gifted as music

just gotta say, this album and it's art ('cept for alex grey's) is the closest i've seen any band come to depicting what i've experienced through out of body meditation, i think all you nay-sayers should really take a long look at what is being manifested by these guys and then urselves, these are exiting times in music (technology meets new age acceptance) we should be greatul but at the same time not get caught up in the hype. sure there's lots of high vibe music all throughout history, but again, as per all- round accurate portrayals of conciousness via mind expansion tools definately head of the pack.

@shabaz

"i'm not the best guitarist but even i've evolved more in my playing than adam jones"

i have to agree with you on that count. although I do enjoy this album immensely I really felt like adam jones was just lazy. He didn't really push anything on this album. a lot of open strings and VERY basic patterns. his playing on this album felt uninspired.

however, there are a lot of great bass lines on this album. good job justin!

has anyone figured out the puzzle on the album. its killing me.

I think it's a stunning album.
10,000 days (wings, pt 2) is the most beautiful song ive heard in a long time and it never fails to get me.
The Pot..well..Maynards voice..I cant explain it.
But im sure you know what I mean.
It's absolutely amazing.

This album sucks nuts. It's all a numbers game. Hey danny play a thing in five and I'll play a thing in seven, now maynard sing over it all dreamy like, then we'll go into antoher mthematical based thing after that.

This album is all based off a formula that they perfect on lateralus. The only difference is that this album has no soul to it. Maynard is better in APC. These guys forgot how to emote.

The sound quality on this album is the worst since undertow, but this isn't their fault, because engineers nowadays like to limit everything to the roof, so you get a real thin sound because of all the compression.

The guitar effects are cheesey, sounds like it was done on an entry-level boss all in one pedal.

The Bass, well, he sucks on everything.

Danny does what he does on drums. I swear he hasn't had a fresh idea since Aenima. At least he practice his dbl. bass chops up over the last 5 yrs, cause that crap at the end of schizm was sloppy as hell.

Maynard, overprocessed, and too quiet. IMO he is the only thing worth listening to in the band.

This album sucks, these dudes suck live, I know I saw them at Gammage in Tempe and the last time they were here 4 yrs ago. Their stage presence is that of an animatronic set up. I would be suprised if they built robots and just have them sync over the album, like you have to put four tokens in them to play.

F tool. This is the worst let down since the Load album with metallica.

Why does music suck so much now. I'm glad I got into jazz and DnB, cause rock is dead, and metal licks sack.

Anybody that likes this album either has poor taste, bad hearing, or they're in denial about tool being creatively tapped or cashed.

OGT, not O.T.G. Elepherious

Anyone who thinks virginti tres or lipan conjuring are a waste of time are clearly not true TOOL fans. These songs are as much a part of TOOL as any. Anyways this album was fantastic and i cant stop listening. It was well worth the wait and it made me realize why i am so obsessed and in love with TOOL.

That DPFRD ass hole is waste of air. Anyone who can complain about Danny Carey's drumming is the musical equivalent of a brain trauma victim. Tool is wasted on ignorance such as yours. Tools genius in this album is unmatched by anything in the history of music. I personally am glad that you aren't a rock fan or a tool fan because it is much to intellectual for your level of intelligence. That album was fantastic, unique, and the best music I've ever heard.

To DPFRD,
I’m sorry Tool disappointed you so much that you had to go on the internet and put on your big boy pants and bitch about it. I’m really glad you think they suck live too, because I take comfort in knowing that there is one less asshole out there taking up space at a Tool concert where a real fan could be enjoying the show. Hey, I hear Ashley Simpson is going on tour, maybe if you want to see someone dancing around on stage like a fucking idiot and who can’t even sing,hey, that sounds like the perfect show for you. Here’s a thought for you, maybe before you get on your high horse and cut on a band for the way they perform you should know a little bit about that band first, and know what they’re about and why they do the things they do. Keep listening to your jazz and your RnB, because rock is alive and well, It’s just too complicated for a silly monkey like you. And another thing, you got some balls for a nobody do nothing piece of crap, to say that any of the members of Tool suck. They have done more in their lives just in their art, then you could only dream about. A pimple on Maynard’s ass has more talent and ambition and would accomplish more then you could in your life time. I bet you don’t have too many friends. You’re the kind of guy that walks around making outlandish statements like you invented the question mark or something. Who are you to wave your fatty finger. You must have been out of your mind. You say F tool, I say FUCK you.

P.S. If you’re going to pick people out of the band and say they suck at least know their fucking name, asshole.

i was blown away...again! you cant really have any expectations as to what their new one would sound like. i mean, that's what makes tool so unbelievable. i was hooked from beginning to end like always, and im sorry, but real fans dont download their favorite bands music...you dont think that i wanted to as the days grew closer to may 2nd? of course, but having respect for them should keep you assholes from doing so. you cant call yourself a fan and steal thier music fuckers!

Wow - emotions run high here. I suppose its good to know people are alive and awake out there. Nutshell: bought the album, love The Pot - on the fence about the rest but its new and different (i'll leave that open to interpretation).

I've always liked Tool, and I try not to let my vague expectations dictate merit. Because on my last album... oh wait, thats right, I never released an album (or 5 albums, or 4 albums and 1 EP).

Enjoy a cup of tea, hug your dog, call your mom - whatever does make you happy! Enjoy your day fellow Tool fans (whether you like 10,000 or not)!

Im not disappointed in the CD even though I dont think its their best work. I have a deep passion for Tool and their creativity so they could put out dead air and package it and i would still buy it,Im so OGT.
The live show will be in nyc this weekend and ill be attending both nights. this will mark the 20th and 21st time allowing maynard to kill me then bring me back to life with his performance.
My only disappointment is the lack of a hidden track..What the fuck??

Man i would have to say the first couple of times i heard 10000 days i wasn't very impressed, but same goes for lateralus i really didn't like it very much when it first came out now it is one of my favorite albums it probably took a year or so for all of lateralus to sink in...........so everyone quit bitchin about the new tool album listen to it for what it is and for all of you that talk shit on the new album FUCK OFF i would like to see any of you be able to create music anywhere as amazing as tools....same goes for lyrics

here's a puzzle & it might resolve peoples annoyance with Viginti Tres. This is truely beautiful;

three tracks from their new album are meant to be played simultaneously.

first, play list these two in this order on win amp or whatever:

Tool - Viginti Tres
Tool - Wings For Marie (Pt 1)

and play this one at exactly the same time, with a different media player or your cd player:
Tool - 10, 000 Days (wings Pt 2)

it will only work properly if done exactly, the singing synchs completely at the end so you can tell if you did it correct.

everyones got an opinion....what makes anyone right or wrong HA and im talking tooo myself. JUst imagine what can happen if your never right or wrong in the process of obtaining information. if you dont cast things out sooo fast then maybe....just maybe,,, you'll learn a little morrrre. there is no right or wrong... there is only what you feeel is good and what you feel is bad

oh and ya , love what you dooo Tool

Hey Rob, Maynard doesn't live in L.A. He lives in Arizona near his wine vinyard. Why do you think he says in the song Aenmina "see you down in Arizona bay" kind of like he says "I need to watch things dies, from a good safe distance". Oh wait a minute thats "too deep" for you. Tool rules I like Lateralus the best. Parabola is the most badass fast song ever. I like how on 10,000 days (wings pt. 2) when Maynard, says "give me my wings" and it blends in with the intensing music. WOw that raised hairs on my neck when I heard it. Does anybody else like the song where he says "Can't remember what they said, Goddamn shit the bed" I thought it was funny, but very deep as well.

the artwork puzzle possibley has something to do with the "facing pages" in the booklet, which seem to have some kind of numerical order (the ammount of those design patterns on them. 1,2,3,4,5,6, 1, 1, 1, 1, or something...

the skull on danny's pic is the one form the skull pic, dogs head on adam's is skinned in the jar on another pic, the bird on the candles thing is behind justin. .. i cant figure out any clues with maynards pic but the skull with fetus looks like similar shape to maynards head and ange in the mirror on maynards pic...

any ideas???

I saw in the background of one picture the Tree of Life posted on the wall........ I think that Tool is still saying to us : "think for yourself, question authority" but they want to show us what they have discovered to help them on their own paths. (not literally as in a jar of entrails, but with other methods)

on each of the band members photos, there are 11 of something.... look closer... in the song "jimmy" from aenima, he makes references to his mother judith's stroke, "11 and she was gone, 11 is when we waved goodbye," etc... 11 would have been james maynard keenan (jimmy's) age when the stroke happened. approximately 10000 days before she died. that is one of the answers to the puzzle.

Absolutly love it.
I so love Tool at the age of 43 it is something my sons of 16 and 17 agree with me we all love Tool and 10 000 days doesn't dissapoint at all.
Please come to Adelaide again soon

I LOVE the new Tool cd! I really hadn't heard of them until I started hanging out with this one guy Scottie, and he let me listen to his tool cds and all I have to say is WOW! I've never heard anything like them, they're amazing!

i dont care what all you idiots say.....this album is truly a work of art....and might i add....opiate, undertow, anema, lateralus, 10000 days, that is five albums if the idiot who controls the post on this website know anything about tool....look it up bro....back to the subject.....i know everyone probly expected the raw and angry side of tool due to latealus' effect on its fans with the huge build ups and out of no where slow downs....but try and understand.....music becomes more mature with age and every band no matter what comes out with the laid back and put you la la land album....and least thats what the album did to me and i love all of it.....it just projects you somewhere and gives you a feeling of comfort.....to all of the members of tool the album rocks.....cant wait to here what you have five more years down the road.....

this album is definetly there worst album. but then music is a matter of opinion. but i have to give respect to tool becuase its nearly imposible to put out a an amazing album everytime. so in the scheme of things from all there work they are still one of the best bands out today if not the best. the problem i had with this album was there were builds up that went know where. i dont care for the strange noises in between myslef. it was not as focused as there other albums. my favorate albums are undertow and aniema. what i did like about this album it had some undertow influences which most dont reconize.there were filler songs in this album which i dont like. i would give this album a average rating. but agian its imposible to put out great albums every time which most dont understand. i am still blown away by aenima and plan on listing to lateralus more.
this album is still better than what most bands put out today though. when you put out great albums like aenima everything else you do is going to pale in comparison. so in a way for the band its impossible to live up to there previous albums becuase of it.

hey rob pretty hate machine is one of the best albums ever made and so is aenima.
what are you talking about?

tool are one of the most genius artists over the world. 10,000 days is an amazing album. if you don't like it hear it again. maybe after ten years you will be free to say that tool class-level is compare with pink floyd, led zeppelin etc... also check out dodheimsgard,king crimson,virus,ved buens ende...........

the album is fucking amazing..those "strange noises" are insane!! i love them!every album jus gets better and better!

All the negatives, kinda reminds me of the line...The only thing you know is what I sold you...
Sold my soul to make a record, dipdhit man...you bought one.
To all the negative speakers, sorry bout your being sheep and all, get out of the shallow end and learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay...

Yeah Well Tool Fucking Rock!!!

10,000 Days is very touching, as it is clearly about the 27 years it took Judith Garrison, his Mom, to die. To me, it represents regret in maynard's eyes. Regret for the song Judith, and he is realizing just how unimportant their differences were and how very important the connection they shared was. The Wings combination is very touching to me. Jambi is also a very hardcore song. I'd have to say that my least favorite song was actually vicarious, because it had a rather shallow (as in, easy to understand) meaning, while the other songs keep you going "WHAT THE HELL MAN!?" i'm starting to crack certain codes, but there is so much more work to do.

dave, you are a genious. It works perfectly.

i fell in love with tool when i went to their first show at the gorge but i knew there was something different about this group when i first laid ears on undertow. this music has evolved has the group has. and if the commen man cannot hear or imagine this, you need to take some acid. there is some thing more about tool that almost puts them into a different realm. like a alter universe of music and thought. maynard is so deep and complex , it is hard for some dumbasses to know what 10,000 is trying to convey. there is so many layers of in depth thought journeys going on in each musical outreach , you just have to almost be amazed this guy is not in a asylum or bent out on herion. enjoy 10,000 like you were floating through space with just a airpack and a ipod ,passing jupitor and banging your head to roseeta stoned , then maybe just maybe you might get it.

Its interesting to see the different reactions to Tools newest offering of music. Even the negative ones, it gives it contrast.

It seems that every Tool record has its own avid fanbase. No record sounds like the previous one. Thats rare with most rock bands these days. People dont seem to accept the fact that these are really four totally unique artists that create a unique sound.

They could each easily go off solo into their own careers and be successful, but they continue to evolve together to see where that black ray of inspiration leads them. And we are the lucky to hear the results of their journey.

Me? I wont bother trying to explain to other fans what I hear in Tool's music, that belongs to me.

The people that dont like newer tool like lateralus and 10000 days just arent into music enough. songs on the older cds stand alone and are heavier and more straight forward. the newer lateralus and 10000 days have songs that connect and intertwine and you need to have a better ear to appreciate them. so if u dnt like the new shit, all im saying is you're stupid.hahahaha

"So... here I am reading all your negative comments and you admit to downloading our music illegally. You think we don't search for stuff like this? Wow! I hate North Americans... enjoy our album.

Posted by: LET THE RABBITS WEAR GLASSES at May 2, 2006 03:52 AM"

Show yourself Wizard!

You are not he! You are...the curtain itself!

I just got the 10000 days album and is fucking great!!!, it surpasses my expectation from their previous albums, tool is evolving amazingly, and regarding all negative comments shown above, after hearing it for 4 times, you start to love it!!! definitively the greatest tool album of the previous 3 ( I know..... Opiate is an EP ). The 3D artwork is amazing and the idea fits perfectly with the music,man evolves, so does music.

Not to repeat what everyone else has said, this album has to be viewed at with an open mind, not because it stinks but because stupid people post dumb reviews when change occurs.
Tool knows that they are Tool and they FULLY COMPREHEND what they are distributing to the public. "This album is too boring...this album isnt special there arent any good guitar riffs, blah blah". If you think they wrote this album to follow up Lateralus you are quite stupid.

I'm not a religious Tool fan, but I appreciate good music. This album is well put together. End of story. And for the guy who said the bass sucks while he waited for his mommy to call him down for dinner, you need to keep your opinions to yourself. The bass lines are far more complex than many of the greatest bands of the last few decades, and he deserves much praise for standing so strong in this album.
True, Adam Jones and Danny Carey do not have "sweet solos" or "insane riffs", but if you call yourself a Tool fan and cannot handle anything that isnt cool fast paced, you are obviously unopen to change and you need to keep your uneducated opinions to yourself.

Tool's new album is awesome. I have been listening to it since it came out (May2) and every time it blows my mind. Heck AEnima and Lateralus still blow my mind. I find something new every time I listen to them. I actually listened to Lateralus today in it's HDCD format and it was like I was listening to it for the first time. And Just recently I found out about the secrets that some Tool albums hold(the fibinocci sequence...). 10,000 Days has totally captivated me and it will for a long time. Peace!

THE PEOPLE WHO DONT LIKE 10,000 DAYS WERE NOT REALLY "OGT" TO BEGIN WITH (if you dont know what that means then you prove my fuckin' point). I must admit it took me 10 times listening to the album and catching the philly show, 2 new york city shows and the Boston show last month to truly find the spiritual meaning to the album or should i say "MY" spiritual meaning),just as I did for every album since the Opiate EP. Rosetta stoned & Jambi joyfully rips my heart out everytime I hear it and to anyone who thinks that 10,000 days is nothing less than a MASTERPIECE like Mozart or a priceless painting by Michael Angelo is a fucking DIPSHIT..
Learn to Swim Motherfuckers!

The album is a tribute to maynard's dead mother. judith marie. she spent 27 years in a wheel chair after suffering from a stroke. 27 years is about 10,000 days. "10,000 days in the fire is long enough...your going home." even though maynard still doesn't agree with the church, he appreciates his mother's strong faith. im sure he hopes that he is wrong, and his mother is right. dont read too much into the "spirituality". the answers are right in front of your faith. tool is not a christian band now. they are just honoring the basis of our society which sprung from christianity.

I DIDNT SAY I HAD A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE,I COULDNT GIVE A FUCK LESS ABOUT THE CHURCH OR ANY OTHER FAITH BASED FOLLOWERS OF THE BLUE RABBIT,MY SPIRITUAL MEANING TO THE ALBUM IS MINE ONLY.

To the dude that said this was tool's fifth album is a moron, Opiate was an EP, and Salival was a B-Sides Box set, so neither of those can be counted, and the music flows together so seamlessly, i can't see how anyone doesn't like it, i think the problem is that people are just to dumb to understand it, and there is no way that APC is "better" than tool. A perfect circle is nothing like tool, and shouldn't really be compared. Just becaue Maynard is in both doesn't really mean anything especially since APC is no more. i really just wish you would et over yourself and stop bashing an album and calling it "boring" "shitty" or "stupid" you only do this because it's beyond your ability to understand it. You are the reason our collective unconcious is so fucked up, please kill yourselves, i mean it. just planting seeds, just planting seeds...

ok just becuase i dont like 10,000 days does not mean i dont love lateralus. lateralus i think is equal to aenima. so dont put words into peoples mouths. comparing this album to lateralus is an insult to lateralus. yes this album is totally different. if you have to listen to an album more than once or twice to like it then you dont really like it. every tool album before this one i liked the very first time i heard the songs. maybee people say they have to listen to it 100 times is really becuase its not that good. so get it straight i love lateralus just not this album. you cant compare lateralus to this ablum its not alike at all. this album only has like 4 or 5 songs the rest cant even be called songs. i hope they dont do what they did on this album on the next one if there is a next one. go ahead listen to this album 500 times then maybee you will like it ha ha ha.

I'm not going to get in to arguing with a lot of the people that were/are bored with this album...or simply can't comprehend it. I just want to say that this album is as great as the rest. It's just another chapter in the book of TooL. It took me awhile to fully respect each song for what it is....except of course Vicarious (as everyone seems to agree). It took me 2 years to completely catch Lateralus,(and that's listening to it every day) I expect to give this album at least a couple years of my FULL attention. I was fortunate enough to witness the Boston show on May 21st. It was the greatest show I've ever seen (as expected) and I gained newfound respect for songs such as "Rosetta Stoned"...which I didn't fully catch at first. I must say I love this album as much as all the others. Especially "The Pot" and "Right in Two". Come on....has anyone really read the lyrics to "Right in Two"?....astonishing. TooL strikes again....as hard as they ever have.
Want to talk more about Tool? Talk to me at www.myspace.com/intricatusJimmyC
Right on Tool fans.

by the way...DPFRD that posted on May 14th...is a fucking idiot....as well as the rest of the people who bash this album....those people don't know shit about music.....Jimmy C

i thought this album was too easy to comprehend that is the reason its less interesting. music is about sounding good and relating to people. there was less depth. music is more of an emotional thing than an intellectual thing. the other albums seem to have more emotion. this album sounds forced out. people like music for different reasons. it seems some people would listen to anything . if tool put out an album with just farts some people would like it.

I agree with Jimmy C that right in two is an excellent song and along with the pot and rosetta stoned my favorite tracks of the album. I really don't care if this album is better or worse than the previous ones. It is a good album made from people who really know their music and feel they have something to say. And I really love that these tracks are so long. I am bored to death with songs that last only 3 minutes. At least these ones make some atmosphere and set a mood. I really wish they would come to Greece

there is a hidden track its just hidden dumbass
http://spo0nman.blogspot.com/2006/05/more-on-10000-days.html

I think it is absolutely lovely that all of you are arguing over your own opinions. Everything before you in any form of art is a matter of perception. If this album makes an individual feel a particular way, they will base their judgement off of that, however, in turn they should to respect the opinion of another. Some over us you were endowed with a higher perception (Not complete fucking idiots) and an open mind (Not complete fucking idiots) would be able to see past our immediate response, and find the beauty in the elaborate tapestry of this album, or at least attempt at it. This music will be appreciated moreso amongst intelligent, expressive musicians. WHO TYPICALLY KNOW MORE ABOUT MUSIC THAN ANYONE ELSE. So... As Jim Morrison would say. "YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF FUCKING SLAVES!" Buh bye.

-Your God

HI i'd just like to say, that as a type of, and i hate this term, art-piece, 10,000 Days is elegantly and intelligently presented. The Album has a running binary theme throughout. Wings for marie pt1+10,000 Days (Wings pt2), Right in two, Veginti Tres, Blame Hoffman + Rosetta Stoned , The track Viginti Tres which is latin for 23, a number which has a significant occult significance, which corresponds to hexagram 23 of the “I Ching”, P’o, which translates as splitting apart. Now I have no exact idea with what their angle is, as each band member will surely have their own two cents. However, I have determined that instead of a spiral being the running theme of the album (as in lateralus), the theme is stereoscopy.
I am not simply talking about the stereoscopic lenses and stereograms in the cover. Adam Jones, in his own myspace, has been uploading stereoscopic images for a few months. He is quite talented at making them in my opinion, however i was shocked to find it had such an impact as to be the basis for the packaging. That is until I mixed veginti tres + wings1 over wings 2, on advisement from some intraweb people and realised the guys have all been intrigued by this idea on this album. The song that is created is almost 3d, as in Justin Chancellor's bass licks before the concerts a number of years ago where the sound seemed to tangibly move location from in front of you to behind you to above you etc. This is due to interference created when playing two similar notes at a different timing and slightly different pitch. 10,000 days, the album seems to be striding to perfect this "stereoscopic wall of sound" idea and uses this "pulse" element to illustrate it.
The opus that is the fused track- i just call the song 10,000 days - is immensely sonorous and can be quite disturbing when played at any loud volume, as your head begins to almost vibrate with the song. It is in my opinion, one of tools greatest works. Vegenti Tres compliments the mysterious thunder track on wings 2 perfectly and when wings 1 really kicks in over it, the song becomes nothing short of epic. Its complexity is a marvel as layer upon layer of vocals are unleashed, Carey starts a roll on one track and starts again half way through on the other. The bass line cuts into itself fixing the timing that you just weren't sure was right during wings 2. And all those overlong sustained guitar notes suddenly become the cement of a veritable great wall of sound as the guitar riffs from wings 1 kicks in over them. I was dissappointed with this album, but i underestimated Tool (again). I also believe it is possible that more of the album synchs up- my evidence being Vegenti Tres is 5:02 mins long and Wings 1 is 6:15 mins long, add those together and you get 11:17- the exact length of Wings 2 and the reultant secret track, Now look at Rosetta Stoned- 11:15 and the song before and after it-
Lost Keys(Blame Hoffman) 3:50 + Intension 7:35= 11:15. Now hoffman seems to fit over rosetta quite well from the start- no innuendo intended. I still haven't made intension fit, but it is in the same key and has similar tempo signatures, its just very complicated.
This album has once again proved to be a technical masterpiece in sound recording. Make all the Nickelback/ Flaming Lips fusing track jokes you want, they don't even come close to the almost orchestral intensity of this album. I had given it 7 out of 10, now it gets 11-1 extra for the bonus track. Say what you like about prog/metal/tool, this is alot more than a stoner-pseudo-intellectual gimmick. The musicianship and studio ingenuity required to produce an album of this quality is considerably out of reach of most contemporary musicians and bands. Thats not to say they are out and out the best band or that this album is their best- Lateralus and Aenima still completely blow me away, Just that this level of talent, creativity and innovation are a rare commodity in the current music industry.
Sorry about the length... i could have written more.

the only idiots are people calling each others idiots....think your own thing, don't post comments if you do not agree with this subject.

great work 'your god' and all others

TOOL is a fantastic group and 100 days is an awesome offering. TOOL is improving all the time.
But I have a problem. I am the owner of 2 copies of 10000 days. Neither one will play in my high power car stereo. Both play fine on my computer or home stereo. I have copied the CD in full CD format and in wav format. Still wont play in the truck for some reason. Never had this problem before. The truck CD player is a older, top of the line Sony. It has never failed to play a CD or CD-R before unless the disk was bad. I'm just wondering if there is some kind of trick being that TOOL has always experimented with CD track counts and counting backwards and whatever. I sure wish I could crank up 10000 Days in the truck. Any ideas?

hey maninbox are you telling me the store bought original cd wont play in your truck cd player?

i never heard of that. what a rip off. if its an original cd that was store bought it should play in any cd player.

the only problem i ever had was copying a cd i bought to prevent the original from getting ruined and it did not work in my car cd player.

all originals should work in any cd player.

This is in response to a message Posted by: Jordan at May 10, 2006 10:17 PM
and to anyone else with such a smug sense of superiority, let me put you in your place.

**"You idiot bastards!!Any fan that posts something negative about Tool is a complete tool themselves. How the f*#k can you not like 10,000 Days."**

So according to you i can like the band, save my money, buy all the albums (more than once), buy the boxed set and that makes me an idiot bastard who isnt allowed to share any negative opinions? Doesnt that sound a little, how you say, immature? I dont like 10,000 days, like many other people who spent a lot of money and devoted many years to such a great band, because it didnt live up to the expectations of those fans - those being, oh i dont know... that it would have at least as many good songs on it as their 1st major release. Or if it didnt look like they spent more time on the cover than on the content.

**"It is far better than most of the sh*t being made today."**

I doubt there are many people posting here that have disputed that so.... whats your point?

**"Each Tool album has shown progress in musical talent and the bands maturity."**

Yeah thats ture, until this album... whats so great about TOOL is until now every album has been completely different while maintaining their signature style whereas this album seems to be a rehashed reworking of old riffs and song ideas - you cant honestly listen to this cd again and tell me that they cant do better... its as if they jammed one day and threw some songs to together and recorded them the next day!

It doesnt have to have "sweet riffs" or "crazy drum beats" - but it must be up to the standards that band themselves have created.... like i pointed out before, opiate is pretty limited in terms of song variety but showcases their respective talents well... undertow is mean and in your face while aenima demonstrates their ability to mix an agressive sound with maynards haunting melodic vocals... almost every song on lateralus has amazing polyrythmic beats reminiscint of king crimson.

**"And now 10,000 days shows a culmination of all the previous albums. It has the anger of Opiate, it has the core of what Tool's sound is which was created on Undertow, it has the vocals, song topics, hardcore riffs and basslines of Aenima, and it has the progressive songs which come to the Toolesque climaxes of Lateralus."**

Exactly you moron - thats the point... that a lot of people were expecting something new in the way of song ideas and arrangments - something that could keep up with other great contemporaries of prog and metal today - and dont say there are none, because thats just ignorant... to name a few - look up symphony x, dream theater, psychotic waltz, king crimson for a lesson in prog you fruit. A culmination referes to a new enitity, a new creation which stands on its own - if anything its more of an amalgamation since you yourself can point out numerous simliarities to previous albums.

**"So maybe when you mature you'll come to appeciate this album as many other mature Tool fans have. Tool will forever be a great band and only true fans of Tool will fully appreciate and accept what they create. Good day!"**

If your definition of "true Tool fan" extends only as far as your blind acceptance of everything "new" being "better" than youre right, im not a true fan. If however youre not a day over the age of 17, which is probably the case, then what frame of reference do you have to be able to make a determination like that - let alone make claims about maturity?

It seems like to me that you want some kind of award for being a "real fan" - well junior there are no prizes for ignorance and no awards for conformists, so you might as well throw on your dog collar and metallica tshirt and go back to acting hard with your westernized popcultured bum buddies.
No band lasts forever and no bands are always going to be great thats the nature of the craft - someone else mentioned that we shouldnt think of this as a follow up to Lateralus.... if thats not what it is, then what is it? If it were supposed to be something entirely different then why release the music under the guise of a TOOL album? Its my OPINION that they really didnt know how, or didnt see how it would be possible to "top" Lateralus as each successive album has done... so they didnt try - because if they didnt try then there isnt much room for scrutiny... the only thing one could say is what ive said, that overall its a great cd but IN COMPARISON to their previous cd's, i believe that it is technically not as sophisticated and not at all representative of the band's immense depth and talent.

I'm not quite sure I understand why people are even talking about real fan/fake fans. Either you like the music...or you don't. If you don't...ok. If you do...OK. And for those that say they're disappointed because this new album didn't go in the direction they wanted, keep in mind that artists don't make records only for you. They make what's important to them as well. People change..and music changes with them sometimes. No biggie. If you like the older albums better...then replay those. If you like this new album...then yay, you have even more Tool to listen to.

shut the fuck up.. you only think the catchy songs are good listen to the lyrics of the other song ex rosteta stoned..they have far more meaning than say..the pot..well to be honest if you havent experienced drugs before..ure gonna find it hard to understand how simply orgasmic tool's new album is.

MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN I WANT YOUR BALLS

What kind of bull shit is that? Enjoying Tool has nothing to do with doing drugs. I feel sorry for you Stefan.

What kind of bull shit is that? Enjoying Tool has nothing to do with doing drugs. I feel sorry for you Stefan.

Ben:
You are awfully high and mighty with your self-proclaimed OTG status you probably have etched in a placard hanging on the wall next to your bullsh!t, I mean, music "degree". Better yet, I hope you were stupid enough to get a tattoo that says OTG! It's OGT you knob!
But what do I know? I fall into the "rest of [us] just listen to music" category while from up on your high horse you hypocritically tell someone else to get on theirs because they don't agree with your almighty opinion. Please, please tell us what to think. We are but lost without your wisdom.
You'll probably reply to this and recycle that cheesy "this epic album transcends musical boundaries" bullsh!t, generic review as something deep you came up with. Randomly mis-quoting Tool lyrics doesn't make you clever, it makes you an unoriginal sap.
It's suprisingly hard to grasp that 10000 Days is good enough for someone of your magnitude. One thing we do agree is that this album is excellent - but I didn't need some dickweed to tell me to like it because he feels his opinion is omnipotent decree. Asshole.

Totally wicked guys, this band rocks, that's all I can say...This album has really kept me going as their fan 4 life. I have a bass, and I want to learn the wicked bass notes for the song "The Pot" really bad, I've been trying so hard!! But I can't find anything.... You guys got any suggestions??please!?

for the many who have said tool has 'changed' or 'evolved' since previous releases is correct. I, however, didn't realize that because i am new tool fan. 10000 days is the first cd i have ever listened to. I laugh at the people who are 'disappointed' in how they have changed because I love what they are now and am unable to even compare thier evolvement. Its almost as though we are fans of different bands if old fans are mad and say fuck tool, its sad but up to you. Tool isnt losing fans in the long run. I am thier newest fan! I just turned 18, have never done drugs ( i once lit a cig. but then remembered that girl smokers {to me} are very unsexy) I listen to rock, metal, rap, country, etc... but tool is my new fave. I get chills when I listen to it, i feel untouchable every time it is playing, i am free when im driving and the base is on and maynards voice is in my ear. music is so gratifying and this cd completely encompasses everything that is beautiful. - tools newest fan

First of all, I am a Tool fan since Undertow and I don't know what OGT or OTG is. Do I care? No. Are you a fuckin idiot for telling me I have to care. Yes you are. I agree with everything Joe said about the guy with the musical degree. Too bad that asshole can't make a living writing posts with poor attempts to demean and ridicule people. Maybe he wouldn't be so angry.

Second of all, it's not that hard to just review music on here is it? Does everybody have to get offended if I write ANYTHING negative about 10,000 Days? Yes they are a great band, no I don't want to suck Maynard's cock. After about a week of listening to the cd in the car eevryday, I am still a little bit disappointed, but everyday I like it a little bit more. I'd like to thank anyone who advised to be patient with 10,000 Days (And actually listen to it with some real speakers) because I am going to and hopefully will love it as much as most of you do.

P.S. Everyone else's opinion sucks.

this cd is crap.too much mumbo jumbo crap mixed in with 3 great songs.just using their name to make some money.if you think this is a great album or better yet,their best album ,your nuts.songs 1,2, and 5 are great but so much trash mixed in it just takes away from the musician's talent.I'm pissed that tool is one of the few bands I will actually go to the store and buy the cd.well never again.I got ripped off.they should have waited an extra year and written a few other songs instead of useless filler shit.RIP tool

i thing its pretty good compared to jay zs rock album. its 14 songs blew poeple away. also 11000 days was like death metal or somewhait wut im coming undone lean wit it rock wit it

Everyone is entitled to thier own opinion. In critically reading these postings it is apparent that everyone listens to TOOL for different reasons. I can respect that the public as a whole has contrasting expectations for anything they feel a connection to. Too often this is seen in our personal relationships. We fall in love with someone or something because it or they fulfill something in us. So when the object of our affection changes or evolves we often become angry or confused because they are no longer catering to our needs. We become unwilling to listen because this new entitly is entirely unfamiliar. How do we digest it? TOOL is not writing music to please the record industry or to cater to angry metal head cavemen. An appropriate quote would be "The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly" Stendall, Love 1822. Now I can give you something of an explanation as to why I listen to this band. I bought Aenima on cassete when I was younger. I'm guessing probably 95 or 96. I listened to it once and put in away. I didn't get the instant gratification that I was looking for. I thought that it was strange and perverse. Two years later I was in the depth of my psychedelic drug experimentation years and was standing outside tripping on LSD. My friend invited me up to the attic of his house to listen to Aenima. I remember thinking "What? Man I don't want to listen to that shit while I'm trippin. I'm gonna freak out. It's too heavy. It's just some fucked up Metal band." Nevertheless, I did go up there and bathed in blacklight I listened to the entire album from begining to end. I have spent the last 7 or 8 years of my life using TOOL as a catalyst of sorts. Thier music has shaped the way that I percieve the world around me. I remember as an angry youth listening to undertow and opiate embracing the anger I felt toward organized religion and all of these pious little people who are so afraid of exploring what lies outside of the boundaries of our culture. I remember listening to Aenima and exploring myself and the nature of my psychological makeup. Embracing fear and pain. Letting go. Listening to Lateralus and learning to explore the scientific and yet spiritual possibilities of this world. And now we have come to another place. Once that although I do not yet fully understand or comprehend, I will neverthless attempt to. The new album is brave and mysterious. It may not cater to the angry fans who want nothing more than to stomp the shit out of someone in a moshpit. Good. Like I said, I can respect everyones opinion and they are entitled to it. But consider this... 200 years from now, when we look back at this point in time who is gonna stand out? Read between the lines. There is so much more going on here than you are seeing. We are getting closer now...

My son has introduced me to Tool and I am very grateful. They are such artists and I mean that in every sense of the word. I am no baby here, these guys have been truly influence by not only thier backgrounds, but also the music of the 60's and 70's. They are not afraid to express themselves and they do not care to be commercial at all. If you are a Tool fan then be prepared to go for unexpected rides, which they will gladly give. LOL, I love true artists like these and I love "The Pot". Congratulations guys you are true artists and what I thought had died in music.

just saw the boyz up in T.O. Ont last night and it rocked. love the new cd

Let's argue over opinion, shall we? Bunch of fckin morons.

tHIS aLBUM IS so GOOd, i JACKED IT TO tRAx 4-9

Hey sexy mommas i love to ride tool hardcore

well, I bought it two days ago. I ain't gonna tell people what opinion they should have of it, neither am I gonna pretend to be a music critic. I like this album. I like this band. I think they have an edge over 99% of modern music, in that they are actually musicians as I want to believe in them, cos all the other shit I hear in the UK is vapid selfindulgent dross pop crap. This album for me is music produced with all due care and attention to detail. It's refreshing to hear a band that actually holds respect for the people listening to it by constantly pushing their style and boundaries.

heh, said I wasn't gonna pretend to be a critic. oops

i was never really into Tool before, not for any particular reason, just wasn't exposed to them ...anyways this album really kicks much ass, I've tried going back and listening to there older stuff, but it doesn't really compare to this album. I hope they keep making this style of music on the next album in 2010....

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