UNDERTOW! Debued April, 1993. Look For It Now!

More complex and multi-textured than Opiate, 'Undertow' is a fist-clenching hard-rock/metal album that has marked tools first major step towards Tools musical evolution. It is also turning the members into rock stars. The vulnerability of songs like "Sober" and "Prison Sex" struck a nerve with alternative-rock fans, and the overall heaviness of the tunes appealed to a new generation of open-minded metal kids. Not that Tool were catering to either. As always, they were driven solely by the need to experiment and explore and were limited only by their playing abilities. So they made the most of what they have, crafting songs that were alternately dense and spacious, blending the arty excursions of Jane's Addiction, the bombastic riffage of Black Sabbith and the offbeat time signatures of Rush. Undertow is defiantly a recorded to have with you.