Under The Wing: How Tool Embraced Their Vulnerability On 10,000 Days

It is perhaps to state the obvious that each new Tool album has an unenviable task when it comes to managing the burden of expectation. Following 1996’s magnificent Ænima, for example, was never going to be a breeze. Still, even by their own lofty standards, the job at hand when it came to Tool recording 10,000 Days was downright formidable. In 2001, the group had made an artistic breakthrough and then some with Lateralus – a record that prised third eyes open to the point of tearing. Recorded at three different California studios – Burbank’s O’Henry, and Hollywood’s Grandmaster and The Loft – across a four to five month period, 10,000 Days saw Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor
 and Danny Carey determined to leapfrog their past achievements. True to their ambiti...

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