Tool Coloring Book: Versatile Voice of James Maynard Keenan and Odd Time Signatures and Drum Beats Inspired Adult Coloring Book

by Julie Williams

Tool was described by Patrick Donovan of The Age as "the thinking person's metal band. Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange, western and eastern, beautiful and ugly, taut yet sprawling and epic, they are a tangle of contradictions." Tool has gained critical praise from the International Herald Tribune's C.B. Liddell for their complex and ever-evolving sound. Describing their general sound, AllMusic refers to them as "grinding, post-Jane's Addiction heavy metal," and The New York Times sees similarities to "Led Zeppelin's heaving, battering guitar riffs and Middle Eastern modes." Their 2001 work Lateralus was compared by Allmusic to Pink Floyd's Meddle (1971), but thirty years later and altered by "Tool's impulse to cram every inch of infinity with hard guitar meat and absolute dread." Tool had been labelled as post-metal in 1993 and 1996, as well as in 2006, after the term came into popularity.

38 pages, Paperback

Published August 13, 2018

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