10 Metal Bands That Have Never Made A Bad Album

9. Tool

Tool have a formula when it comes to recording albums: Make each disc more insane than the last.

The progressive provocateurs have made four albums over the course of a 25-year career, taking their sweet time with every single release (it’s been over a decade since their last full-length…), but always making something well worth the wait. Undertow – the band’s debut – is probably their simplest release, possessing songs that can be classified as “hits” like “Prison Sex” and the iconic “Sober”.

Ænima and Lateralus upped the prog respectively, while also continuing Tool’s dive into downtrodden, alternative melancholia and focusing less and less on the more anthemic tone of their early successes. Regardless, “Forty Six & 2”, “Parabol/Parabola” and “Schism” still became arguably the band’s most beloved stand-out tracks.

10,000 Days closes the Tool saga at time of writing (hopefully that changes soon), existing as an album that truly marches to the beat of its own polyrhythmic drum. Like any great record, there’s nothing on Earth quite like 10,000 Days.

Toss all these albums together, and you have a marvellous body of work that increasingly pushes the boundaries of metal, rock and, yes, even music itself.

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