10,000 Days
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10,000 Days
10,000 Days is the fourth studio album by 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. Recording took place at O'Henry Sound Studios in Burbank, California, The Loft, and Grandmaster Studios (both in Hollywood, California). It marked the first time since recording 1993's Undertow that the band had worked at Grandmaster and without producer David Bottrill. It was mixed at Bay 7 in North Hollywood, California and mastered at Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, Maine. 10,000 Days spawned three top 10 rock singles: "Vicarious", "The Pot" and "Jambi". It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with first week sales of 564,000 copies. By the end of 2007, the album had sold 2.5 million copies worldwide, and was awarded a Platinum certification by the RIAA. - WIKIPEDIA
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pitchfork
with most songs stretching from the seven- to 12-minute range-- and without the stop-start whiplash that was the previous albums' definition of rhythm-- it's unlikely that most listeners will possess the patience or fortitude to make the pilgrimage more than a couple of times.
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Blabbermouth.net
the results are alternately breathtaking and frustrating, with self-indulgence sometimes beating out innovation.
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sputnik music
10,000 Days is different enough to raise an initial clamor of disappointment, familiar enough to be a long-craved comfort, and powerful enough to transcend both of those things to become something all its own. Fantastic.
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Drowned in Sound
For now, savour it; it's probably the most engagingly brilliant heavy metal album that'll be released on a major label all year.
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RollingStone
Tool maintain a level of craftsmanship and virtuosity unparalleled in metal.
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Metal Storm
a solid album.
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popMATTERS
Stupendously packaged, the music robustly mixed and often achieving new levels of bleak beauty, 10,000 Days is too strong a work to call a disappointment, but the constant need to fill out a CD to 75-80 minutes is threatening to become the band's undoing.
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IGN
On the whole, 10,000 Days contains some great Tool tracks, but it simply doesn't flow as well as previous efforts.
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Get Rocked
Whether it’s the high volume or slow brooding you are looking for, this album will have something to offer you in an over 70 minute album, and every minute feeling unique.
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The Skinny
all the key elements are here and the machine is well oiled.
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Last Rites
this sounds just like a Tool album.
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Stationary Waves
It just wasn't the Tool album I expected after a five-year wait.
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ALL MUSIC
was worth the labor pains and wait to deliver. It's not only a step forward for the band, but a re-embracing of the epic-length rock songs found at the roots of early heavy metal.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Tool's diehard fans will greedily gobble this semi-garbled album up like its gristle never existed, much like the folks that strip a chicken leg so thoroughly you'd think they'd stuck the whole thing in their mouths and slurped the meat off like a Looney Toons character.
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Metal underground
Taken as a whole 10,000 Days is an enjoyable listen. While lulls are evident, the full experience - segues and all, is a rewarding one.
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Chicago Tribune
Unlike Pelican and Isis, who have figured out how to blend ambient soundscapes with skull-crushing metal, ambience prevails on "10000 Days." Tool's a smart band, but this time Keenan and company have outsmarted themselves.
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the escapist
This album is very good, but it suffers from a lack of clear melodies, a lack of variety, and a length that's a bit unjustified.
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Metal Temple
With the album's eleven tracks clocking in at around 77 minutes, there is much to absorb, which will no doubt continue to confuse and captivate fans until the time of their next release. While those with typically short attention-spans will scoff in contempt, or shrug their shoulders in indifference, those who crave more in this all-too-predictable contemporary popular culture scene should once more prepare to be enthralled.
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Scene Point Blank
Tool with the knowledge that they no longer have anything to prove.
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The Austin Chronicle
Tool's fourth studio release ain't their best, but this hasn't effected its popularity.
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