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10,000 Days
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 343 votes
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Album Info
Label: Volcano
Release Date: 02 May 2006
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock, Metal
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.
Also By This Artist: Lateralus Salival
Also On Metacritic
MUSIC: A Perfect Circle: eMOTIVe A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Alternative Press
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]
New Musical Express
It's clear this group have ways of getting beneath your skin. [20 May 2006, p.33]
All Music Guide
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.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
It's probably the most engagingly brilliant heavy metal album that'll be released on a major label all year.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times
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]
Spin
Essentially a synthesis of the various phases of the band's career. [Jul 2006, p.85]
Rolling Stone
On 10,000 Days... Tool maintain a level of craftsmanship and virtuosity unparalleled in metal. [15 Jun 2006, p.92]
PopMatters
Stupendously 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.
Read Full Review >Uncut
As daunting as its title suggests. [Jul 2006, p.114]
Blender
It presumably adds up to Something Important, but good luck deciphering what. [Jul 2006, p.103]
Amazon.com
When 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."
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
Neither funny nor thought-provoking, the band strains for touchstones beyond the technicality of prog-metal and rarely achieves them.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
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.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
Rather than delving further into experimentation or exploring their strengths, Tool have made an...A Perfect Circle record.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle
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.
Read Full Review >Stylus Magazine
"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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 343 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ben L gave it a10:
Tool is my favorite band, and 10,000 Days is my favorite album. It takes you through such a range of emotions, and each time I listen to a track, I feel as though I am transcending reality. Amazing.
Kc S gave it a9:
First off I would like to say to some, not all Tool fans are pot heads or 16 year olds, or those that know nothing. I am a University graduate, and most definately not a moron, so those with those comments can shove them wherever they please. I like this albulm but their older stuff is much better I agree to that, but not everyone who listens to Tool are potheads or drug addicts.
Dogstarr gave it a9:
This one would deserve a 10 if only Lateralus and Aenima didn't exist, yet the critics seem to have given it fairly low scores. I guess you either appreciate the best heavy band since Zeppelin, or you don't quite get it. Oh well, if you like heavy rock at all, you have no real choice, you need to get it.
student gave it an8:
It was no lateralus, but still great. half of the cd is awesome and half is filler.. who cares. as for the people who said "go listen to franz ferdninand and the killers" and shit like that.. get a clue.
Bryan gave it a9:
Great album, not as good as the earlier ones like lateralus or aenima but awesome.
Matt O gave it a10:
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."
Mike P gave it a5:
Your comments are meaningless ..beware the new world order.
