i used to listen nirvana , then i heard about death/melodeath metal... divine music
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Doesn't always work, though. Look at Blind Melon. In Nirvana's case, they rode the wave of the shifting trend toward "alternative" music of the late eighties and early nineties and then did it before they inevitable spiraled back down. On its own merits, their music didn't really stand out from the pack very much. I believe it was one of the earlier harbingers of the way our culture, and popular music in particular, has become increasingly dominated by the "tastes" of teenage girls.
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well considering bands like Meshuggah have released 3 decent albums, Mogwai have released 3 decent albums, DFA1979 came and went and then came back (with around 3-4 albums under their belts) and even NiN released 3 incredible albums.. all since 100000 days have come out.. it's my strong opinion that TOOL's time to be relevant or even interesting is long since past.
NiN is a good comparison, since both bands have been around for roughly the same timeframe and have gone through roughly the same career path pre-2000 (dark cult-ish outsiders who gained a mass following despite little to no airplay).. and yet, NiN/Trent Reznor is still going strong and producing some work with a little bit of merit behind it.
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Personally i met Tool at that particular stage (100000 days), so its not my place to talk much about it, no worries about the bashing though, its far better to see someone having the ability to critique a band like Tool and not Rebbecka Black.
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SHE SINGS LIKE AN ANGEL! hahaha.
dont get me wrong tho, i WILL be picking up their new album when it drops [maybe this year, maybe next] and giving it a try. cause deep down inside me, i still want TOOL to be relevant in the music industry.
and be glad you came into them around 10000 days era. you got to miss the snobby-shithead-maynard that floated around in the beginning of the 21st century that made his fans really uncomfortable.
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I'd say the comparison with NIN is very apt, and one I've considered myself. I feel like I'd have to disagree on the direction you went with it. I have to admit that I'm working from a partially uninformed opinion, though. I've felt that TOOL's music retained quality much better than NIN, personally. That said, I was so turned off with their direction after The Fragile that I haven't really heard anything after that, and I'd be willing to believe that it was a one-off situation that at least partially recovered. I also have absolutely no idea if sales figures and the like agree with my tastes either. I don't tend to look at those things.
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Well, with TOOL you have to remember it's one main guy with 3 voices around him giving opinions and shaping songs.. with NiN, it's really only ever been TR and his vision until recently. So obviously NiN floundered in creative vision for a while. But if you listen to With Teeth or Year Zero [even their latest, The Slip, is a solid album. although it had to grow on me.], theyre incredibly solid albums with no bullshit in between. I thoroughly enjoyed The Fragile's sound sensibility, but I know what you mean about the direction taken with Fragile, its remixes and the cd of Still. Just sort of "lets see how experimental and glitched we can get" with no real meat behind it.
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