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10,000 Days - Tool
  • Band Name: Tool
  • Record Label: Volcano
  • Release Date: May 2, 2006
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Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 365 Ratings

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  • Summary: The dark, proggy, hugely-popular alt-metal outfit fronted by Maynard James Keenan returns with that rarest of things: a new Tool album. It's the band's first release in five years and just their fourth full-length in their 16-year history.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    As with everything in Tool's oeuvre, 10,000 Days packs enough beauty, heartache and triumph that it will be dissected, studied and envied by younger bands for years to come. [Jul 2006, p.196]
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  2. cokemachineglow
    60
    Neither funny nor thought-provoking, the band strains for touchstones beyond the technicality of prog-metal and rarely achieves them.
  3. Stylus Magazine
    33
    "Progressive" doesn't mean clocking in at over seven minutes no matter what. It doesn't mean hitting every goddamn skin, tom-tom, and cowbell on your drum set. Being "Progressive" doesn't justify an album cover that looks like a stoner stumbled upon a documentary on Mayan civilization. I'm not sure, but I think "Progressive" is about growth and change.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 197 out of 249
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 249
  3. Negative: 35 out of 249
  1. MattO
    10
    It's safe to say that most of these critics probably spend too much time judging the "quality" and "ability" of several genres; in doing so, I think they somewhat lose their perception on what is inspirational. Songs aren't meant to be a "ballad of the moment." Songs are supposed to move people, motivating them to become something more than themselves. If you ask me, the critics are all on pot, not the listeners. They are on something else entirely. One of my favorite albums of all time, and I've listened to far too many different genres, from Kenny Rogers' "First Edition" to "all the damn Li'l's in rap music today."… Expand
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  2. MikeP
    5
    Your comments are meaningless ..beware the new world order.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. RichardG
    3
    I find it laughable that people clamour to tool, like a flock of mindless sheep.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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