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Originally Posted by kutulu
Tool was never a cookie cutter band, thier music has always been 'out there.' In the past, they just didn't feel the need to layer things with all sorts of extra sounds, multiple layers of harmonized guitar parts, tons of effects pedals, etc.
Not that what they do now isn't awesome, just that I liked the raw sound.
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No, I meant in general, like... as bands get older, they become more of a cliche or drift into something really stupid. There's very rarely a band who gets better as each album comes out. NIN and Tool are ones who get better each time.
IMO, Metallica fits this to a T. Aerosmith, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, etc.
It's like.. they start off as great bands then progress into "WTF happened?"
Like Tool drifted more into "out there" experimental type stuff and got away from the raw sound in Opiate/Undertow. They "found themselves" so to speak. The typical "Tool sound" really isn't on Undertow anywhere (you know, when you heard the first 5 seconds of Vicarious, you realize, "Oh yeah, that's Tool").