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10,000 Days is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Tool. The album was released by Tool Dissectional and Volcano Entertainment on April 28, 2006 in parts of Europe, April 29, 2006 in Australia, May 1, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and on May 2, 2006 in North America. It marked the first time since recording 1993's Undertow that the ...
- Tool
- April 28, 2006
- August – December 2005
- Progressive metal
Apr 17, 2020 · It's 2006, and Tool are about to release 10,000 Days. We join them in a North London pub to talk about one of the landmark albums of the decade. (Image credit: Tool) Tool aren’t so much a rock band as – to paraphrase Winston Churchill – a mystery wrapped in an enigma shrouded in a riddle. Then again, it’s kind of hard to be enigmatic ...
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- No, the album title isn't some kind of future-snark prediction about how long it would take Tool to follow up their upcoming fifth LP. But multiple theories persist as to the real meaning.
- Cover artist Alex Grey created his trippy front image of intersecting faces, "The Net of Being," based on a "blazing vision of an infinite grid of Godheads during an ayahuasca journey."
- At various points on the album, Danny Carey triggers eerie samples and weird percussion noises using his custom Synesthesia Mandala drums. (They were released to the public in May 2006, the month the album was released.
- Tool always experiment in the studio, but they indulged at a new level during the 10,000 Days sessions — incorporating bizarre gear like a "pipe bomb microphone."
- 10,000 days is roughly the orbital period of the planet Saturn. Well, technically speaking, it’s 10,759 days – which equates to nearly 29.5 years. And it’s this philosophical notion of the Saturn Return that Maynard James Keenan once revealed as the meaning behind the title.
- 10,000 days could also be a reference to Maynard’s mother. Some fans believe that the length of time refers to how long the frontman’s mother, Judith Marie, was left paralysed following a stroke in the mid-’70s before her passing in 2003.
- Fans have created their own secret track. Heavy number-crunching from arguably the most eagle-eyed fans in rock revealed that adding Wings For Marie (Pt.
- Meshuggah were an influence. “We’ve all been listening to a lot of Meshuggah,” guitarist Adam Jones told Kerrang! in the months building up to 10,000 Days’ release.
- "Lateralus" - 'Lateralus' (2001) There are two things that will always be the same in every language: music and math. “Lateralus” is a brilliant and mathematical work of music that is cleverly engineered after the Fibonacci sequence, making for some unfathomably intriguing time signatures and lyrical patterns.
- "Ænima" - 'Ænima' (1996) Inspired by Bill Hicks’ legendary comedy bit on Los Angeles breaking off from the U.S. and floating into the Pacific Ocean, Tool penned an iconic hate anthem to L.A.
- "Parabol" / "Parabola" - 'Lateralus' (2001) The overarching theme of ‘Lateralus’ is a quest for spirituality. “Parabola” and its calming preamble, “Parabol,” focus on the rebirth of oneself during a period of enlightenment.
- "Eulogy" - 'Ænima' (1996) Who is this eulogy for? Rumors have mentioned everyone from Jesus to Kurt Cobain, and Danny Carey even once said the track was about L. Ron Hubbard.
Apr 1, 2022 · Metal Hammer. The Story Behind The Song: Tool’s 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) By Alec Chillingworth. ( Metal Hammer ) published 1 April 2022. Tool’s Maynard James Keenan is known for his enigmatic lyrics, but this is what happened when he laid bare his family tragedy. (Image credit: Press)
Jun 2, 2006 · 10,000 Days, the band's latest album, will surely inspire more of the same. The release is filled with epic songs (the 11-track disc clocks in at nearly 80 minutes) based on hypnotically complex riffs and anguished vocals, and cloaked in typically oblique artwork.
