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- Many of Undertow‘s songs had already been written by the time Tool recorded the Opiate EP. Maynard James Keenan and Adam Jones began writing songs together in 1987, and had thus amassed a substantial amount of material by the time Tool signed with Zoo Entertainment in 1992.
- The album’s intense, “reactionary” energy was partly a reaction to Maynard’s experiences in the film business – and to the band’s brushes with the Hollywood hair-metal scene.
- Maynard shot a piano to death for “Disgustipated.” During the recording of “Disgustipated,” the album’s creepy closing cut, Massy added to the aural nightmarishness of the track by recording Keenan firing four rounds from a shotgun into an old upright piano.
- Adam Jones kept his guitar head stored in a refrigerator during the making of the album. Back during the early Nineties, if someone talked about keeping a head in their refrigerator, gruesome images of mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer would have been the first thing to come to mind.
Undertow is the debut studio album by the American rock band Tool, released on April 6, 1993, by Zoo Entertainment. Produced by the band and Sylvia Massy, it was recorded from October to December 1992 at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys and Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood.
Apr 6, 2024 · Jones’ riffs manage to be crushing, spidery and unpredictable and Henry Rollins guest appearance on the tightly wound Bottom is terrifying. Tool would go on to become bigger, more complex and progressive, but everything you ever loved about them starts on here Undertow.
Apr 6, 2019 · Buzz had been built with deft precision with the assist of fledgling label Zoo Entertainment, and the big payoff was to come in the form of the band’s debut full-length Undertow, which arrived on...
Apr 6, 1993 · Undertow is the first studio album by the metal band TOOL. It was their sole full-length LP with their original bassist, Paul D'Amour before Justin Chancellor entered the lineup in...
Apr 5, 2023 · The presence of Henry Rollins on the album suggested links to the hardcore scene, but that was an inaccurate fit.
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Apr 6, 2020 · Tool had forged bonds with Henry while opening for the Rollins Band through 1992, perhaps finding a kindred soul in his commitment, uncompromised and famously dry humour.
