Benzine
.flaps
I have lateralus and to me thats not prog. Maybe 'Junior Prog'. And if a band makes one album of prog and several non-prog albums that doesn't make them prog.
Is TOOL metal?
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LuminousAether
My name is Distance
Aenima was just as prog as Lateralus. And calling them nu metal... that guy is an absolute moron.
LuminousAether
My name is Distance
Benzine... Benzine... Benzine...
You say that Tool aren't prog and that several genres of music are useless. I propose that you are the useless one, spouting off moronic statements like you actually have a clue. You don't, that is evident.
You say that Tool aren't prog and that several genres of music are useless. I propose that you are the useless one, spouting off moronic statements like you actually have a clue. You don't, that is evident.
dimensionidol
free thinker
Benzine
.flaps
Junior because they appear to be beginners at it. And i class genres that are supported by 5 year olds buying records from woolworths as useless.
dimensionidol
free thinker
fenrisulven
Die tepes
LuminousAether said:
Tool is mainly nu metal because they have the mid tempo heavy riffs and melodic vocal line and the trash drums(like the newer stuff from deftones). I dont like nu-metal, but there are bands there that I have respect for as an musician, like tool. U are a ignorant bastard yourself. Just because they use a little more advanced rythms, doesnt make them a progband, but they have a lot of proggy parts. Beatles had lots of proggy elements, but they arent a prog band.
Strychnos
UA Agent FROM HELL
I may be in the minority here, but I think Tool is just rock, with odd rhythms and bits of prog here and there.
I don't say that they're metal because none of their songs from Opiate to Lateralus use the standard 4/4 time signature prevalent in most metal songs. It's just my opinion though.
I don't say that they're metal because none of their songs from Opiate to Lateralus use the standard 4/4 time signature prevalent in most metal songs. It's just my opinion though.
Benzine
.flaps
Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
I can't listen to Tool. They give me the "hee-bee-gee-bees" but despite the freaky feeling they give me, I consider them a metal band as I know many people that listen to Tool and other metal bands, but don't care for the alternative and nu-metal scene.
Bryant
Bryant
Tool is just Tool, take them for what they are. There's no need to classify them as everything they've done has pushed whatever genre they've been classified in. They blend a little bit of everything and make music, that's all it is. I haven't listened to them in a year or two, but seeing this topic might make me dig out an old CD.
-Greg
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AceRoccola
Supervillain Outcast
GeminiBabe
Member
Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock. Or maybe it was introducing the self-absorbed pretension of art rock to the wearing grind of post-thrash metal the order really doesn't matter.
gcele
färdas naken
*joins the minority*Strychnos said:
There are certainly metal influences in their music, but I wouldn't call them metal.
Still, I'd prefer avoiding labelling them at all. They're one of my favorite bands, and I'm content with that. Had Opiate or Undertow been released today, I might have called them nu-metal, but everything pointing in that direction disappeared with Ænima.
Clearly there is no pint in posting about this anymore
the guy with the board name Tool
clearly stated that its prog metal
now why should we not take his word for it?
his board name is tool
the guy with the board name Tool
clearly stated that its prog metal
now why should we not take his word for it?
his board name is tool
-Galaxy 500-
Obscured by Clouds
Just for the purpose of putting them into a catergory I would say Prog Metal but they really don't fit in any genre.
