thirty two.
TOOL//Sober
sounds like.
A horror ride withdrawal.
it's here because.
A lot of bands advertise themselves as downbeat and a lot more get perceived as downbeat but whereas in many cases this is frivolous to the often quite catchy, smiles-behind-the-madness sound pallet offered up, Tool actually do sound like they mean it. They're definitely not happy about something and even though I enjoy them so it does vaguely seem whilst listening like I'm being reprimanded for my choices. Chastised for my sins.
The downtuned guitars are reminiscent of grunge meeting industrial on a park bench circa 1992 but Tool really is Maynard James Keenan. A name like a suspect from a Thomas Harris book and one of rocknroll's finest vocals to boot. He manages to scream ... quietly.
Brilliantly haunting and other such superlatives.