Editing Tool (band) (section)

==Musical style and influences==

===Musical style===
Tool's musical style has been described as [[alternative metal]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Alternative Metal |url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/alternative-metal-ma0000012328 |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]] |access-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612183541/https://www.allmusic.com/style/alternative-metal-ma0000012328 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/tool/68444 |title=Tool forced to delay work on new album after freak scooter crashes &#124; News |publisher=Nme.Com |date=January 30, 2013 |access-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305004300/http://www.nme.com/news/tool/68444 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[art rock]],<ref name="e!onlinelateralus" /><ref name="kingcrimsonminitour" /><ref name="munge" /> [[post-metal]],<ref name="santiago" /><ref name="fenix" /><ref name="bairdcole" /> [[progressive rock]],<ref name="AMG Lateralus review" /><ref name="rollingstonelateralus" />{{sfn|DeRogatis|2003|p = 562}} [[progressive metal]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/sharpdarts/070810/ |title=Chicago Reader feature "Liquid Metal" |access-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-date=December 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212191527/http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/sharpdarts/070810/ |url-status=dead }}The paper reports that the article's featured band "have admirers in world-class progressive-metal outfits like Isis, Mastodon, and Tool</ref> and [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]].<ref name="AllMusic Biography" /> Tool was described by Patrick Donovan of ''[[The Age]]'' as "the thinking person's metal band. Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange, western and eastern, beautiful and ugly, taut yet sprawling and epic, they are a tangle of contradictions."<ref name="theage10kdays" /> Tool has gained critical praise from the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''{{'}}s C.B. Liddell for their complex and ever-evolving sound.<ref name="Liddell 2007" /> Describing their general sound, [[AllMusic]] refers to them as "grinding, post-[[Jane's Addiction]] heavy metal",<ref name="AllMusic Biography" /> and ''[[The New York Times]]'' sees similarities to "Led Zeppelin's heaving, battering guitar riffs and Middle Eastern modes".<ref name="Pareles 1997" /> Their 2001 work ''Lateralus'' was compared by AllMusic to [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[Meddle]]'' (1971), but thirty years later and altered by "Tool's impulse to cram every inch of infinity with hard guitar meat and absolute dread".<ref name="AMG Lateralus review" /> Tool had been labelled as post-metal in 1993<ref name="santiago" /> and 1996,<ref name="fenix" /> as well as in 2006,<ref name="bairdcole" /> after the term came into popularity. A component of Tool's song repertoire relies on the use of unusual [[time signature]]s. For instance, Chancellor describes the time signature employed on the first single from ''Lateralus'', "[[Schism (song)|Schism]]", as "six" and "six-and-a-half" and that it later "goes into all kinds of other times".<ref name="bassplayer052001" /> Further examples include the album's title track, which also displays shifting rhythms,<ref name="bassplayer052001" /> as do ''10,000 Days'': "Wings for Marie (Pt 1)" and "10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)".<ref name="moderndrummer072006" />

Beyond this aspect of the band's sound, each band member experiments within his wide musical scope. [[Bass Player (magazine)|''Bass Player'' magazine]] described Chancellor's bass playing as having a "thick midrange tone, guitar-style techniques, and elastic versatility".<ref name="bassplayer052001" /> As an example of this, the magazine mentioned the use of a [[Wah-wah (music)|wah effect]] by [[Hammer-on|hammering]] "the notes with the left hand and using the bass's tone controls to get a tone sweep", such as on the song "The Patient", from ''Lateralus''.<ref name="bassplayer052001" />

Completing the band's [[rhythm section]], drummer Carey uses [[polyrhythm]]s, [[tabla]]-style techniques, and the incorporation of custom [[Electronic drum|electronic drum pads]] to trigger samples, such as prerecorded tabla and [[octoban]] sounds.<ref name="moderndrummer072006" />

Keenan's ability as a vocalist has been characterized more subjectively by the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'': After his performance during an [[Alice in Chains]] reunion concert in 2005, freelancer Travis Hay saw him as "a natural fit at replacing [[Layne Staley]]".<ref name="Hay 2005" /> Regarding his role in A Perfect Circle and Tool, ''The New York Times'' wrote that "both groups rely on Mr. Keenan's ability to dignify emotions like lust, anger and disgust, the honey in his voice adding a touch of profundity".<ref name="nytimeskeenan" />

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According to ''Guitar Player'' magazine, Jones does not rely on any one particular guitar-playing technique but rather combines many techniques.<ref name="guitarplayer2001" /> For example, AllMusic wrote that he "alternately utiliz[es] power chords, scratchy noise, chiming arpeggios, and a quiet minimalism" in "[[Sober (Tool song)|Sober]]".<ref name="soberamgreview" /> Additionally, the band uses forms of instrumental experimentation, like the use of a "pipe bomb microphone" (a [[Pick up (music technology)|guitar pickup]] mounted inside a brass cylinder) and a [[talk box]] guitar solo on "Jambi".<ref name="Forlenza 2006" />

The band puts an emphasis on the sound of their songs and attempts to reduce the effect lyrics can have on the perception of songs by not releasing song lyrics with their albums,<ref name="livewire" /> although they eventually released the lyrics for ''Fear Inoculum'' for that album's CD. Lyrical arrangements are often given special attention, such as in "Lateralus". The number of syllables per line in the lyrics to "Lateralus" correspond to an arrangement of the [[Fibonacci number]]s<ref name="diCarlointerview" /> and the song "Jambi" uses and makes a reference to the common metrical foot [[Iamb (foot)|iamb]].<ref name="julynewsletter" /> The lyrics on ''Ænima'' and ''Lateralus'' focus on philosophy and spirituality—specific subjects range from organized religion in "Opiate", to [[evolution]] and [[Jungian]] psychology in "[[Forty-Six & 2]]" and [[transcendence (philosophy)|transcendence]] in "Lateralus".<ref name="10kdayslyrics" /> On ''10,000 Days'', Keenan wanted to explore issues more personal to him:<ref name="10kdayslyrics" /> the album name and title track refer to the twenty-seven years during which his mother suffered from complications of a stroke until her death in 2003.<ref name="rs10kdaysreview" />

===Influences===
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In 1997, Tool named [[King Crimson]], [[Melvins]], and [[Peter Gabriel]]'s ''[[Passion (Peter Gabriel album)|Passion]]'' as influences.<ref name="pettigrew1997" />{{refn|group=note|Tool tried out several well known producers for ''Ænima'', before they settled on David Bottrill based on his wide-ranging work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel.{{sfn|McIver|2009|p = 99}} Bottrill reprised his role on ''Lateralus'', followed by Joe Barresi on the next two records because of Tool's admiration for his production on ''[[Stag (Melvins album)|Stag]]'' and ''[[Honky (album)|Honky]]'' by the Melvins.<ref name="Forlenza 2006"/>}} In describing their wide range of styles, critics have noted that they are "influenced as much by [[Pink Floyd]] as by the [[Sex Pistols]]."<ref name="bgl06">{{cite news |last=Morse |first=Steve |title=Sonic evolution with the use of Tool |date=November 15, 1996 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=D14}}</ref> In a 1993 interview, Adam Jones mentioned [[Joni Mitchell]], King Crimson, [[Depeche Mode]], and [[country music]] as being among their inspirations.<ref name="rs">{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/tools-undertow-10-things-you-didnt-know-w518463 |title=Tool's 'Undertow': 10 Things You Didn't Know |last=Epstein |first=Dan |date=April 6, 2018 |website=[[rollingstone.com]] |access-date=April 6, 2018 |archive-date=April 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406161412/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/tools-undertow-10-things-you-didnt-know-w518463 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1997, Maynard James Keenan named ''[[Hejira (album)|Hejira]]'' by Joni Mitchell, ''[[Holy Money]]''/''[[Greed (Swans album)|Greed]]'' by [[Swans (band)|Swans]], ''[[Physical Graffiti]]'' by Led Zeppelin, ''[[Red (King Crimson album)|Red]]'' by King Crimson, and ''Passion'' by Peter Gabriel as his five favorite records.<ref name="j">{{cite AV media|date=1997|title=High Five – Maynard James Keenan|publisher=[[Triple J]]|work=The J-Files|author-link=Richard Kingsmill|first=Richard |last=Kingsmill|location=Australia}}</ref> Danny Carey cited [[Neil Peart]] from Rush, [[Bill Bruford]] and [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]] of [[Yes (band)|Yes]] as his biggest rock influences,<ref>{{cite web|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/tool-primus-members-pay-tribute-to-yes/|publication-date=July 31, 2002|title=TOOL, PRIMUS Members Pay Tribute To YES|website=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=July 31, 2002|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015183559/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/tool-primus-members-pay-tribute-to-yes/|archive-date=October 15, 2017}}</ref> in addition to Bruford's adventurousness in electronic drums.<ref>{{cite web | access-date = February 23, 2021 | url = http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/1321251-handyman--danny-carey-tools-drummer-talks-to-dis | title = Handyman: Danny Carey, Tool's drummer, talks to DiS | first = Jane | last = Oriel | date = November 21, 2006 | website = [[Drowned in Sound]] | archive-date = December 11, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091211074448/http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/1321251-handyman--danny-carey-tools-drummer-talks-to-dis | url-status = dead }}</ref> In the same way, Jones stated that [[Robert Fripp]]'s performances with King Crimson caused him to "wake up" to music as a teen. Furthermore, he acknowledged the other King Crimson guitarists, [[Adrian Belew]] and [[Trey Gunn]], along with [[Buzz Osborne]] from the Melvins, as his biggest influences.<ref name=gw>{{cite web | url = http://www.guitarworld.com/adam-jones-adams-jones | access-date = February 23, 2021| title = Tool's Adam Jones: My 10 Favorite Guitarists | first = Brad | last = Angle | date = April 2009 | magazine = [[Guitar World]] |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607212324/http://www.guitarworld.com/adam-jones-adams-jones|archive-date=June 7, 2011 }}</ref>

Tool have constantly expressed the massive impact that progressive rock pioneers King Crimson have had on their music; on a 2001 tour with them, Keenan joked: "Now you know who we ripped off. Just don't tell anyone, especially the members of King Crimson."<ref name="Blake September 2001"/> Carey said that listening to the ''[[Discipline (King Crimson album)|Discipline]]'' album upon its 1981 release "revolutionized" his musical perspective in terms of polyrhythms and the balance between the instruments.<ref>{{cite book|publication-date=June 13, 2017|title=The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock|date=August 1997|first=David |last=Weigel|publisher=National Geographic Books |author-link=David Weigel|isbn=9780393242256|quote=}}<br />''Note'': [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxSm1xCR-E Link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214024754/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsxSm1xCR-E |date=December 14, 2020 }} to the Danny Carey interview that was paraphrased in the book. It was originally broadcast on the now-defunct [[Nederlandse Programma Stichting]].</ref> In 1997, Keenan explained how the composition process of Tool reflected that of King Crimson: "They're very much into listening to each other; even though they might have a basic structure that they're following, it's about fitting themselves in with each other."<ref name=j/> Contrary to these statements, longtime King Crimson member Robert Fripp has downplayed any influence his band had on Tool. In an interview, Fripp touched on how the two bands relate to each other, stating "Do you hear the influence? There's just one figure where I hear an influence, just one. It was a piece we were developing that we dropped. And it's almost exactly the same figure: three note arpeggio with a particular accent from the guitar. So I do not think you could have heard it. That's the only thing."<ref name="Tool Army interview" /> He also said, {{cquote|I happen to be a Tool fan. The members of Tool have been generous enough to suggest that Crimson has been an influence on them. Adam Jones asked me if I could detect it in their music, and I said I couldn't. I can detect more Tool influence in King Crimson than I can hear King Crimson in Tool.<ref name="Cleveland 2003" />{{refn|group=note|Fripp's self-effacing attitude toward his legacy is not rare; English musician [[Steven Wilson]] stated that after "ripping off" an entire section of "Lizard" by King Crimson in his song "Raider II", everyone picked up on it, except Fripp.<ref>{{cite web | title = Steven Wilson: I Can't Emphasise How Much I Learned Working With King Crimson | url = https://www.loudersound.com/features/steven-wilson-i-cant-emphasise-how-much-i-learned-working-with-king-crimsom | access-date = February 23, 2021 | publication-date = September 26, 2016 | first = Grant | last = Moon | magazine = [[Prog (magazine)|Prog]] | issue = 20 | publisher = LouderSound | date = October 2011 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927123105/http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-09-26/steven-wilson-i-cant-emphasise-how-much-i-learned-working-with-king-crimsom|archive-date=September 27, 2016}}</ref>}}}}

The band's long build-ups of intensity were largely inspired by the Melvins.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/kirk-hammett-adam-jones-bad-religion|publication-date=May 4, 2009 |title=Kirk Hammett & Adam Jones: Bad Religion|first=Brad |last=Angle |website=[[Guitar World]]|date=May 4, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203083108/https://www.guitarworld.com/features/kirk-hammett-adam-jones-bad-religion|archive-date=December 3, 2018}}</ref> The latter's influence on Tool is most explicit in ''Undertow'', and some authors have described Tool's music as a [[progressive music|progressive]] take on Melvins.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/12137-tool-undertow-anniversary|publication-date=April 30, 2013|title=Dancing In Quicksand: Tool's Undertow Revisited|first=Matt|last=Evans|website=[[The Quietus]]|archive-date=February 22, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210222231949/https://thequietus.com/articles/12137-tool-undertow-anniversary|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2006/06/18/tool-anima-progressive-energia-post-rock.html|publication-date=June 18, 2006|title=Tool L' anima progressive e l' energia post-rock di grunge e nu-metal|first=Felice|last=Liperi|website=[[la Repubblica]]|language=it|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019170715/https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2006/06/18/tool-anima-progressive-energia-post-rock.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On the other hand, Keenan's exotic modulations were influenced by [[world music]]; in his twenties, the singer was immersed in that type of music, thus when Peter Gabriel reunited several musicians whom Keenan already knew of for ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' soundtrack, which mixed their traditional styles with modern [[ambient music]], it became a major revelation for him.<ref name=passion>{{cite magazine|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/a-perfect-circles-maynard-james-keenan-billy-howerdel-talk-first-lp-in-14-years-126308/|publication-date=February 5, 2018|title=A Perfect Circle's Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel Talk First LP in 14 Years |first=Kory |last=Grow|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=February 5, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305072950/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/a-perfect-circles-maynard-james-keenan-billy-howerdel-talk-first-lp-in-14-years-126308/|archive-date=March 5, 2019 }}</ref>

Other reported influences of Tool include [[Fantômas (band)|Fantômas]],<ref name="mtvhammer" /> [[Devo]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=https://consequence.net/2016/11/five-surprising-things-we-learned-from-maynard-james-keenans-authorized-biography/2/|publication-date=November 8, 2016|title=Five Surprising Things We Learned from Maynard James Keenan's Authorized Biography|first=Wren |last=Graves|website=[[Consequence of Sound]]|date=November 8, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111121439/https://consequence.net/2016/11/five-surprising-things-we-learned-from-maynard-james-keenans-authorized-biography/2|archive-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=February 23, 2021|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/tool-perfect-circles-maynard-james-keenan-reveals-albums-most-influenced-him|publication-date=December 3, 2018 |title=Tool, A Perfect Circle's Maynard James Keenan Reveals Albums That Most Influenced Him|first=Kelsey |last=Chapstick|magazine=Revolver|date=December 3, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108124837/https://www.revolvermag.com/music/tool-perfect-circles-maynard-james-keenan-reveals-albums-most-influenced-him|archive-date=November 8, 2020}}</ref> [[Bill Hicks]],<ref name="Garza 1997"/> [[Rush (band)|Rush]],<ref>{{cite web|title = Geddy Lee On How Rush Finally Made It Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame|url = http://radio.com/2013/04/24/geddy-lee-on-how-rush-finally-made-it-into-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/|access-date = January 25, 2016|first = Brian|last = Ives|archive-date = July 18, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150718132903/http://radio.com/2013/04/24/geddy-lee-on-how-rush-finally-made-it-into-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/|url-status = live}}</ref> [[Helmet (band)|Helmet]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Page Hamilton On Collapse Of Helmet's Classic Lineup: 'Money Kind Of Came In And Changed Things'|url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/page-hamilton-on-collapse-of-helmets-classic-lineup-money-kind-of-came-in-and-changed-things/|publisher=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=February 22, 2020|access-date=March 3, 2021|archive-date=September 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925235943/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/page-hamilton-on-collapse-of-helmets-classic-lineup-money-kind-of-came-in-and-changed-things/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Faith No More]],<ref name="AllMusic Biography"/> [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]],<ref>{{cite news |author1=Lina Lecaro |title=Back From the Dead: Bauhaus Reunited |url=https://www.laweekly.com/back-from-the-dead-bauhaus-reunited/ |website=LA Weekly |access-date=October 30, 2019 |date=October 30, 2019 |quote=“As contradictory as this may seem, Bauhaus being, in my opinion, the Godfathers of Goth: they were a bright artistic light in a vast wasteland of crappy pop darkness. They showed me the way.” – Maynard James Keenan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030173845/https://www.laweekly.com/back-from-the-dead-bauhaus-reunited/ |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Meshuggah]],<ref name="mtvhammer" /> [[David Bowie]],<ref name=j/> [[Mike Patton]],<ref name="mtvhammer" /> [[Dave Lombardo]],<ref name="mtvhammer" /> and [[Jane's Addiction]].<ref name="AllMusic Biography"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060706/news_lz1w06helmet.html|title=Helmet heir: Hamilton's reconstituted band still shaping heavy metal|last=Nixon|first=Chris|date=July 6, 2006|work=San Diego Union-Tribune|publisher=Union-Tribune Publishing|access-date=September 11, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911140925/http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060706/news_lz1w06helmet.html|archive-date=September 11, 2014}}</ref>

===Influence on other artists===
Writers HP Newquist and Rich Maloof attribute to Tool an influence on modern metal in their book ''The New Metal Masters''.{{sfn|Newquist|Maloof|2004|pp=11–15}} Sean Richardson of ''[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Boston Phoenix]]'' sees [[System of a Down]], [[Deftones]], and [[Korn]] as examples of Tool's "towering influence" on the genre.<ref name="Richardson 2001" /> Keenan's style of singing has been seen as heavily influencing artists such as Pete Loeffler of [[Chevelle (band)|Chevelle]],<ref name="Rich 2007" /> [[Benjamin Burnley]] of [[Breaking Benjamin]],<ref name="LMTimes">{{cite web |url=http://www.lmtonline.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_3af315ee-d34b-11e4-bec4-7b361d34477c.html |title=Breaking Benjamin to perform at the LEA |website=Laredo Morning Times |date=March 25, 2015 |access-date=April 12, 2015 |archive-date=October 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019170711/https://www.lmtonline.com/entertainment/article/Breaking-Benjamin-to-perform-at-the-LEA-10010569.php |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Klosterman 2004">{{cite web |url=http://www.spin.com/2004/08/saliva-survival-sickest-breaking-benjamin-we-are-not-alone/ |title=Survival of the Sickest; Breaking Benjamin – We Are Not Alone |website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |first=Chuck |last=Klosterman |date=August 30, 2004 |access-date=April 12, 2015 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906032816/http://www.spin.com/2004/08/saliva-survival-sickest-breaking-benjamin-we-are-not-alone/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Will Martin of [[Earshot]],<ref name="Assar 2003" /> and [[Fred Durst]] of [[Limp Bizkit]].<ref name="Devenish 2000" />