Summary from 140 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated TOOL’s catalog across 7 albums from 140 opinions, with an overall average of 8.4/10. The top-rated TOOL album is Ænima (1996) with a 8.5/10 average from 10 ratings, followed by Undertow and Lateralus. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1992 to 2019. Lateralus ranks as the highest-rated TOOL song on Rate.fm with a 9.8/10 average.
Fear Inoculum
“There comes a point in a person’s fandom where one just stops caring. You get older. You move on. You become someone different. Tool – the Los Angeles progressive metal band, but really, so much more than that – have never faced such a problem. It’s now been 13 years since the band released their seminal fourth album ‘10,000 Days’, named thus, it’s believed, after the amount of time singer Maynar”
Ænima
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Tool’s marvelous 1996 album, a long and heady trip that ushered in a new age of hard rock.”
Fear Inoculum
“It says something about the power of Tool that, even after 13 years, four blokes who like weird time signatures and lyrics about purging, fear and flesh can nearly knock a pop star off the global top spot. At the start of August, the enigmatic prog-metallers finally made their entire back catalogue available on streaming services for the first time: every one of their albums went Top 10 on iTunes,”