El Fangel
01-06-2008, 12:34 AM
Tool
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Tool is an American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music) band (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_%28music%29), formed in 1990 in Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles%2C_California), California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California). The band consists of drummer Danny Carey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Carey), bassist Justin Chancellor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Chancellor), guitarist Adam Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Jones), and vocalist Maynard James Keenan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan). Tool has won three Grammy Awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award), performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.
The band emerged with a heavy metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music) sound on their first LP when the genre was dominated by thrash metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_metal), and was later seen at the top of the alternative metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_metal) movement with the release of their second LP, Ænima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86nima), in 1996. Efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts), and a message of personal evolution continued with Lateralus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus) (2001) and the most recent album 10,000 Days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000_Days) (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world.
Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and relatively long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transgressing act and part of progressive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock) and art rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_rock). The relationship between the band and today's music industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry) is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_music) and the bandmembers' insistence on privacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy).
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q191/Gregpope/tool-band.jpg
Tool is an American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music) band (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_%28music%29), formed in 1990 in Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles%2C_California), California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California). The band consists of drummer Danny Carey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Carey), bassist Justin Chancellor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Chancellor), guitarist Adam Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Jones), and vocalist Maynard James Keenan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan). Tool has won three Grammy Awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award), performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.
The band emerged with a heavy metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music) sound on their first LP when the genre was dominated by thrash metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_metal), and was later seen at the top of the alternative metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_metal) movement with the release of their second LP, Ænima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86nima), in 1996. Efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts), and a message of personal evolution continued with Lateralus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus) (2001) and the most recent album 10,000 Days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000_Days) (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world.
Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and relatively long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transgressing act and part of progressive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock) and art rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_rock). The relationship between the band and today's music industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry) is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_music) and the bandmembers' insistence on privacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy).