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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Bmg/volcano/pavement/cz
Buy.com Sku: 60016200
UPC: 614223108728
UPC 14: 00614223108728
Release Date: 10/1/1996
Buy.com Sales Rank: 56
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Stinkfist ~ Tool
2. Eulogy ~ Tool
3. H. ~ Tool
4. Useful Idiot ~ Tool
5. Forty Six & 2 ~ Tool
6. Message To Harry Manback ~ Tool
7. Hooker With A Penis ~ Tool
8. Intermission ~ Tool
9. Jimmy ~ Tool
10. Die Eier Von Satan ~ Tool
11. Pushit ~ Tool
12. Cesaro Summability ~ Tool
13. Aenema ~ Tool
14. Ions, (-) ~ Tool
15. Third Eye ~ Tool
Album Notes and Credits
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Tool: Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Adam Jones (guitar); Justin Chancellor (bass); Danny Carey (drums). |
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Additional personnel includes: Marko Fox (vocals); Eban Schletter (organ); Chris Pittman (synthesizer); D.B. (keyboards); Bill Hicks. |
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Recorded at Ocean Way, Hollywood, California and The Hook, North Hollywood, California. |
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AENIMA was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. "Aenima" won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. |
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Personnel: Maynard James Keenan, Bill Hicks (vocals); Eban Schletter (organ); David Bottrill (keyboards); Chris Pitman (synthesizer). |
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Audio Mixer: David Bottrill. |
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Recording information: Ocean Way, Hollywood, CA (1996); The Hook, North Hollywood, CA (1996). |
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Photographers: Fabrico DiSanto; Jeff Novack. |
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Unknown Contributor Roles: Danny Carey; Joel Larson; Adam Jones ; Justin Chancellor; Karen Mason. |
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On its second full-length album, this hard-rocking quartet delivers 15 tracks of unrelenting aggression and focused intensity. Rather than overwhelm with huge sonic washes of guitar and booming drums, Tool employs a propulsive, snaky approach that makes use of undulating rhythms and clipped, percussive guitar riffs. Maynard James Keenan's vocals follow suit, opting for a heavily processed slow burn instead of the post-grunge bellow favored by so many hard-rock bands. Instead of flailing uncontrollably in all directions, the group's raw, energetic sound is tightly directed for maximum impact. |
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On songs like "Stinkfist," Keenan rails against injustice while the band churns mercilessly behind him. There is very little humor or light in Tool's worldview (except for song titles like "Hooker With A Penis"); these are songs of painstakingly articulated angst, and they are delivered in an earnest, deadpan manner. These fierce rockers are dead set on making their point, and make it they do, with all the bloodshed and carnage that entails. |
Producer: David Bottrill; Kevin Willis; Concetta Halstead; Adam Jones; Tool |
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Engineer: David Bottrill |
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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.
Artist Influences
Black Sabbath | Faith No More | Guns N' Roses | Jane's Addiction | King Crimson | Led Zeppelin | Metallica | Mike Patton | Nine Inch Nails | Pantera | Pink Floyd | Queensr?che | Rollins Band | Slayer
Black Sabbath | Faith No More | Guns N' Roses | Jane's Addiction | King Crimson | Led Zeppelin | Metallica | Mike Patton | Nine Inch Nails | Pantera | Pink Floyd | Queensr?che | Rollins Band | Slayer
Artist Contemporaries
Alice in Chains | Biohazard | Breaking Benjamin | Clutch | Coal Chamber | Course of Empire | Crowbar (Metal) | Danzig | Deftones | Dream Theater | Eve 6 | Filter | Godsmack | Helmet | Korn | L7 (Los Angeles) | Limp Bizkit | Marilyn Manson | Melvins | Ministry | Neurosis | Nine Inch Nails | Pantera | Porcupine Tree | Prong | Quicksand | Rage Against the Machine | Rammstein | Sepultura | Soundgarden | Stone Temple Pilots | Tad | Therapy? | Type O Negative | VAST | White Zombie
Alice in Chains | Biohazard | Breaking Benjamin | Clutch | Coal Chamber | Course of Empire | Crowbar (Metal) | Danzig | Deftones | Dream Theater | Eve 6 | Filter | Godsmack | Helmet | Korn | L7 (Los Angeles) | Limp Bizkit | Marilyn Manson | Melvins | Ministry | Neurosis | Nine Inch Nails | Pantera | Porcupine Tree | Prong | Quicksand | Rage Against the Machine | Rammstein | Sepultura | Soundgarden | Stone Temple Pilots | Tad | Therapy? | Type O Negative | VAST | White Zombie
Artist Followers
Chevelle | Disturbed | Downthesun | Flaw | Fuel (Alternative Pop/Rock) | Linkin Park | Nickelback | P.O.D. | RX Bandits | Staind | System of a Down | The Mars Volta | Trust Company
Chevelle | Disturbed | Downthesun | Flaw | Fuel (Alternative Pop/Rock) | Linkin Park | Nickelback | P.O.D. | RX Bandits | Staind | System of a Down | The Mars Volta | Trust Company
Associated Artists and Works
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Vitamin String Quartet |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 10/01/1996 |
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Original Release Date : 1996 |
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Catalog ID : 61422310872 |
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Label : Zoo/Volcano Records |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00614223108728 |
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.190)
- "...Tool shove their iron-spike riffing and shock-therapy polemics right up the claustrophobic dead end of so-called alternative metal....the broiling, avant-metal ferocity of Led Zeppelin's PRESCENCE..."
- "...Tool shove their iron-spike riffing and shock-therapy polemics right up the claustrophobic dead end of so-called alternative metal....the broiling, avant-metal ferocity of Led Zeppelin's PRESCENCE..."
Entertainment Weekly (10/04/96, p.62)
- "...a jagged, brooding nightmare filled with roaring guitars, abrupt rhythm shifts, and jarring sound effects. One of 1996's strangest and strongest alt-metal records." - Rating: A-
- "...a jagged, brooding nightmare filled with roaring guitars, abrupt rhythm shifts, and jarring sound effects. One of 1996's strangest and strongest alt-metal records." - Rating: A-
Alternative Press (1/97, p.84)
- 3 (out of 5)
- "...The taut playing and icy production keep Keenan's emo tendencies in check while lending his vocals a sense of remote, lone-voice-in-the-machinery existentialism that Tool captures better than anyone..."
- 3 (out of 5)
- "...The taut playing and icy production keep Keenan's emo tendencies in check while lending his vocals a sense of remote, lone-voice-in-the-machinery existentialism that Tool captures better than anyone..."
Kerrang (Magazine)
(p.53)
- "Tool stepped into the void and upped the progressive rock ante with this multicoloured collection of thundering detours and dizzying left turns."
(p.53)
- "Tool stepped into the void and upped the progressive rock ante with this multicoloured collection of thundering detours and dizzying left turns."
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