Tool - Undertow Rock 4/5 Sonics in the January

4/5 Sonics in the January 2011 Issue of The Absolute Sound

'Jungle Love' and many more

offset from the center to mitigate diffraction effects from the cabinet edges

reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100

"Pony Blues" was written when Patton was just 19

Tool - Undertow Rock 4/5 Sonics in the JanuaryThe band's follow up to Opiate, Undertow displays Tool at their finest assisted by clean, crisp production, without the muddiness of Aenima. "Edgy guitar riffs are complemented by spitting, heavy bass, especially on "Sober" and "Crawl Away". Lyrically, Tool are at their vitriolic best, targeting religious hypocrisy ("Intolerance," "Sober"; always a popular theme), the loss of innocence and its consequences ("Prison Sex"), and deliberate ignorance