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Title: Dark and Foreboding
Review: Tool expanded their "Grungy" sound from their debut into full-fledged metal with multiple artsy touches on this record, which would indicate the far more complex efforts that would follow. On its own, Undertow is pretty straight-forward HEAVY Metal with many underground influences and a sludgy/doom feel to it, coupled with light signs of progressive. The songs depict bleak, dark, evil images [the videos help too] of dispair, drug-induced anger, abuse, intolerance, etc. The album also losely follows a Water theme [Bottom, Swamp Song, Undertow, Flood]. The ending is an extremely odd "song" [or statment, or sotry, or something] which ends this dark album on a strange note.
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