secord kirjoitti:
Jotenkin olisi toivonut, että todellisia biisejä olisi enemmän. Introihin ja muihin ”fillereihin” kuluu aikaa yli 10 minuuttia tällä levyllä ja jotenkin tuntuu, että innovatiivisin rockbändi on kuluttanut innovatiivisuuden lähteensä kuivahkoksi. Olkoonkin, että näiden jälkeen levy on yhä yli tunnin pituinen.
Filleriä siinä on Lipan conjuring ja viginti tres, loppu on ihan puhtaasti biisejä. Ehkä se on sitten jotenkin vaikea hahmottaa kun on kuullut sen mp3:sina, levyllä wings/10 000, lost keys/rosetta ja intension/right in two tulevat varmasti jatkumaan suorana putkena joten ei tule niin irrallista kokonaisuutta.
Turussa joku levykauppa jo myykin levyä, helsingissä keltaisesta jäänsärkijästä saisi perjantaina.
Tässä muuten Kerrang lehden arvostelu, levy sai saman arvosanan KKKKK kuin Lateralus.
"Prog-metal legends return with their most stunning masterpiece yet"
"A TOOL release is always a seismic occurrence, and rightly so. In the 14 years since their debut EP "Opiate", they have long become more than just a band, transcending every trend that's come and gone over the '90s and the '00s. That they've done this with music often both bafflingly complex and wilfully off-kilter is all the more tersament to just how necessary they are, and in today's scene, seemingly populated by the shallowest of boy-band posturing, fourth full-length album '10,000 days' couldn't have dropped at a more propitious time. In short, their intelligence, passion, insight and sheer jaw dropping muscianship have all been sorely missed in their five year absence.
That tool haven't abandoned their penchant for mind-boggling polyrhytms or seven-plus minute prog-a-thons isn't much of a surprise, and from this point of view, '10,000 days' is the logical sequel to 2001's Lateralus; what is surprising, however, is the extent to which they've upped the heaviness ante here, taking on a whole new generation of heavy - the juddering grind of Meshuggah is tastefully nodded to, then alchemically made their own - in order to paint so brutally effectively these haunting canvases of a violence-riddled planet. The different, though, still being that tool are fronted by the finest singer - not vocalist but singer - of his generation, MJK, a man who is still pushing boundaries and stretching his voice around the most startling of ideas and soul-rending of solutions; just check 'The Pot', which sounds like folk singer Joni Mitchell fronting Led Zeppelin, or 'Rosetta Stoned''s heaving journey through the mind of an amnesiac, on which Keenan growls and jobbers like he's trading spit with Mike Patton.
But all these comparisons are useless in a way, because '10,000 days' is tool through-and-through; as epic, grandiose, dark, mysterious and engaging as you'd expect, but also a vision which markedly exchanges 'Lateralus'' transcendental cosmic bent for an earth-bound cynicism that bucks and kicks with sorrow, confusion and rage, from the war-as-entertainment exposé of 'Vicarious' to the Satan-in-the-engine wind down of 'Viginti Tres'. A record which will take weeks, months and even years to make its mark truly felt and an album as substantial and challenging as only the greatest works of art can aspire to be, one which takes on your mind, body and soul in ways rock bands these days seem to simple have forgotten how."