Track Listing

1. Intolerance
2. Prison Sex
3. Sober
4. Bottom
5. Crawl Away
6. Swamp Song
7. Undertow
8. Four Degrees
9. Flood
10. Disgustipated

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5787 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Import

Customer Reviews

The old future of progressive metal
This was the first tool album I owned. At first I thought it was "good", but after you really listen to it you realise what a true masterpiece it really is. The whole album grows with you, each track compliments the others on the album. Melancholy lyrics combine with churning guitars, tight baselines and solid drum rhythm. I've heard this album referred to as progressive metal. It truely is. No bands from the nu-metal fold ome even close to the dark majecty that is tool. Listen to this album as a whole.

Good, not great. Buy it anyway.
If you're new to Tool, this record will sound like a masterpiece. It is so far ahead of most rock music today (and it was released 10 years ago!), God knows what it must have sounded like when first released. It expands on Opiate (released the year before) to such a degree, that it is hard to believe this is the same band. Unfortunately, with the releases of AEnima and Lateralus, this now sounds unfulfilling. It's best moments rank among Tool's brightest, but I don't think I've listened to this record start to finish in over a year. Sober, Prison Sex, Crawl Away and Undertow are timeless, but Bottom (featuring Henry Rollins) and rest of the album can be hard to listen to. The album closer, Disgustipated, is probably the most irritating of all Tool's segues. It lasts about 16 minutes, except ten of those are just white noise. It is worth buying, but pales in comparison to Aenima and Lateralus - two of the best albums ever.
Incidentally, the UK release of Undertow has about three minutes edited out. Thankfully, most of those came from Disgustipated. However, the opening section of Intolerance has been cut. The US version has about thirty seconds of what is rumoured to be a man drowning before the band start playing.

An album for everyone
I think that without doubt that Undertow is by far the best album that Tool has ever brought out. There are some heavier tracks, followed by very melodic tracks in between. And there isn't one track that i dislike. I've liked Tool for more than 4 years now, and have purchased every album, and they just seem to be getting better and better i think that this one sum's up what Tool are all about.