Track Listing 1. Intolerance 2. Prison Sex 3. Sober 4. Bottom 5. Crawl Away 6. Swamp Song 7. Undertow 8. 40 9. Flood 10. Disgustipated
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Henry Rollins | | Distributor: | Sony BMG Music (Canada) ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Tool: Danny Carey, Paul D'Amour, Maynard James, Adam Jones. Additional personnel: Henry Rollins (vocals). Recorded at Grand Master Studios, Hollywood, California. UNDERTOW is an example of nimble heavy metal in the angtsy/artsy tradition of Jane's Addiction. Tool favors medium tempos, which gives several of the group's songs a modern-day Black Sabbath feel, but fortunately lead singer Maynard James mostly steers clear of the usual quasi-operatic yowling favored by most metal frontmen--he's a remarkably expressive singer in a genre not usually so noted. As for the band's world-view, it's pretty much summed up in the unsentimentally named "Prison Sex": "Do unto others, what has been done to you."
Editorial Reviews ...What puts this L.A. band a notch above the rest are better songs and the hints of vulnerability in singer Maynard James Keenan's voice... - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (05/28/1993)
Ranked #10 in Entertainment Weekly's list of `The Best & Worst Records Of 1993' - ...[a] gristle-free slab of clenched-teeth metal.... Entertainment Weekly (12/31/1993)
...One of the least likely MTV smashes of the grunge era, and one of the most enduring... Spin (10/01/2003)
Raw, scathing and often deeply troubled, UNDERTOW is the sound of the tormented human soul... Kerrang
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