| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/volcano/pavement/cz | | UPC: 00614223105222 | | Release Date: 4/6/1993 | | Buy.com Sku: 60016173 | | Item#: MKYJXF | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2543 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Intolerance ~ Tool |  | | 2. Prison Sex ~ Tool | | | 3. Sober ~ Tool | | | 4. Bottom ~ Tool | | | 5. Crawl Away ~ Tool | | | 6. Swamp Song ~ Tool | | | 7. Undertow ~ Tool | | | 8. 4 Degrees ~ Tool | | | 9. Flood ~ Tool | | | 10. Disgustipated ~ Tool | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Tool: Danny Carey, Paul D'Amour, Maynard James, Adam Jones. | | Additional personnel: Henry Rollins (vocals). | | Recorded at Grand Master Studios, Hollywood, California. | | UNDERTOW is an example of nimble heavy metal in the angtsy/artsy tradition of Jane's Addiction. Tool favors medium tempos, which gives several of the group's songs a modern-day Black Sabbath feel, but fortunately lead singer Maynard James mostly steers clear of the usual quasi-operatic yowling favored by most metal frontmen--he's a remarkably expressive singer in a genre not usually so noted. As for the band's world-view, it's pretty much summed up in the unsentimentally named "Prison Sex": "Do unto others, what has been done to you." |
Producer: Sylvia Massy; Tool |
Engineer: Sylvia Massy |
Musical Guests | | Henry Rollins |
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| Artist Overview |
| Tool's sophisticated art-metal approach (some regard them as prog-metal) is marked by unrelenting aggression and focused intensity. The band's use of serpentine, syncopated rhythms, and tight staccato guitar riffs topped by singer Maynard James Keenan's passionate-but-controlled vocal style separates Tool from the slash-and-burn overkill approach of so many of their heavy rock contemporaries. The band first came to public attention in the waning days of the grunge boom, but have long outlasted that transient era with their dark, brooding vision. |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 04/06/1993 | | Original Release Date : 1993 | | Catalog ID : 31052 | | Label : Zoo/Volcano Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 69m : 13s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00614223105222 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Spin (10/03, p.107)
- "...One of the least likely MTV smashes of the grunge era, and one of the most enduring..."Entertainment Weekly (5/28/93, p.66)
- "...What puts this L.A. band a notch above the rest are better songs and the hints of vulnerability in singer Maynard James Keenan's voice..." - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (12/31/93, p.116)
- Ranked #10 in Entertainment Weekly's list of `The Best & Worst Records Of 1993' - "...[a] gristle-free slab of clenched-teeth metal...." Kerrang (Magazine)
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- "Raw, scathing and often deeply troubled, UNDERTOW is the sound of the tormented human soul..." |
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