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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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It's clear this group have ways of getting beneath your skin. [20 May 2006, p.33]
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It's probably the most engagingly brilliant heavy metal album that'll be released on a major label all year.
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It's not only a step forward for the band, but a re-embracing of the epic-length rock songs found at the roots of early heavy metal.
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If "10,000 Days" lacks the absolute intensity and focus of 2001's "Lateralus," the new album at least stands as a stirring repeat of the Tool musical manifesto. [6 May 2006]
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75Sounds exactly like you would expect a Tool album to sound.
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On 10,000 Days... Tool maintain a level of craftsmanship and virtuosity unparalleled in metal. [15 Jun 2006, p.92]
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70Essentially a synthesis of the various phases of the band's career. [Jul 2006, p.85]
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Neither funny nor thought-provoking, the band strains for touchstones beyond the technicality of prog-metal and rarely achieves them.
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60As daunting as its title suggests. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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60It presumably adds up to Something Important, but good luck deciphering what. [Jul 2006, p.103]
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I, myself, will likely revisit 10,000 Days for plenty of extended listens, partly because I'm a percussion whore and partly because I want to be able to enjoy it with my Super Metal Friendz. But this is Soy Tool, a rubbery substitute for the real thing.
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60The entire record is a disquieting trip.
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60When Tool sounds as good as it does on ["Jambi" and "The Pot"] it's hard to get enough. Which makes it all the more baffling that a surprisingly large chunk of the disc is given over to mood-enhancing soundscapes like "Lost Keys" and "Vigniti Tres."
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60Stupendously packaged, the music robustly mixed and often achieving new levels of bleak beauty, 10,000 Days is too strong a work to call a disappointment, but the constant need to fill out a CD to 75-80 minutes is threatening to become the band's undoing.
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59Rather than delving further into experimentation or exploring their strengths, Tool have made an...A Perfect Circle record.
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5010,000 Days sounds messy and poorly paced.
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Nothing here to best the hungry creativity of Aenema's "Eulogy" or Lateralus' "The Grudge," which is particularly frustrating given that drummer Danny Carey dazzles again.
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"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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