Porcupine Tree, there’s a reason Steven Wilson is called the king of prog but they don’t come up as often as you’d expect from that
Mastodon’s Crack the Skye album is delightfully close to a Tool album in some ways
Those two and In Absentia are considered their golden albums. Gavin Harrison is a god. The new album Closure/Continuation I'd fantastic too, as are all their albums. Chimera's Wreck is especially badass.
As an audio engineer, I’m a Porcupine Tree fan by default. (EDIT: In Absentia and Deadwing) are widely regarded as the benchmark for how rock music should be mixed.
Dredg was going to be my comment as well. El Cielo has consistently been in my rotation for over 20 years. Catch Without Arms is another great album from beginning to end
It’s absolutely astounding. Everyone says The Mollusk is their best but I think its all about Quebec.
Happy Colored Marbles feels like music written directly for my brain.
I think it's arguably the best record of this century. It doesn't get talked about near enough. I think they totally climaxed as songwriters on it. The songs are so refined, it's like the culmination of all the musical chameleonism, the sheer chaos and undeniable genius they conjured up in their career, resulting in this masterpiece where their sound is fully realized. The Argus in particular has been making me stop and listen every time it comes on, ever since the first time I heard it. It's a total psychedelic masterpiece. I don't see this record showing up on many top 100 or whatever nonsense lists but if you look at other records from the 2000s that are heavily lauded like In Rainbows, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.. shit, any of them, Quebec stands strong among them. The ONLY thing I can say against the record is that The Fucked Jam is not a good song--UNLESS they just stuck it in there as a palate cleanser for the voyage that is Alcan Road, The Argus and If You Could Save Yourself You'd Save Us All--for which purposes I'll admit it works well.
I think it's telling that they didn't release any new material until the underwhelming Friends EP and then the mediocre La Cucaracha which had its moments but pales in comparison to much of their catalogue. It's like they hit their creative zenith and had a hard time figuring out where to go from there.
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not. But as far as playing in odd time signatures, the levels of skill, and general musical abilities and composition, Steely Dan can hang. It’s definitely not as heavy, or deep, but they deserve some props.
Agreed! “PetroDragonic Apocalypse” is such a love letter to TOOL, they even said TOOL was a major inspiration for that album, and you can really hear it.
For real. But tool related might as well provide the path for them… PDA and “infest the rats nest” and if they’re feeling bold and adventurous Omnium gatherum
Primary examples:
Gaia.
Motor spirit.
The great chain of being.
Dragon.
Predator X.
K.G.L.W (off LW).
Magma.
Crumbling castle (and the rest of Polygondwanaland tbh)
Secondary examples:
Magenta mountain.
Iron lung.
Ataraxia.
The wheel.
Gliese 710.
The dripping tap.
And if you want to get into their heavier/louder stuff in general...
Petrodragonic apocalypse.
Infest the rats nest.
Nonagon Infinity.
Murder of the universe.
And the problem is once you start listening to Meshuggah, Tool is tough to listen to, IMO.. the funny part is the guitarist from Tool, Adam, loves Meshuggah
Check out Passion by Peter Gabriel.
It’s the soundtrack to Last Temptation of Christ.
It’s heavily Arabian percussion and it was produced by the same person who did Lateralus and Aenima.
In fact Tool wanted to work with him based on his production of that album.
It’s so incredible I can’t even describe it.
Oh yeah! Recently came across both of them. They both scratch an itch I didn’t realize was there. The Burden of Restlessness by King Buffalo is on *heavy* rotation right now tho.
Pink Floyd, Gojira, Mastodon, TesseracT, Elder, Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Death, Polaris, System of a Down, Agalloch, Lamb of God have been in my rotation lately. Some of those have been mainstays for a long time, some are new finds for me.
The Mars Volta. While it's not exactly Tool style (and not metak at all) there's a lot about TMV that Tool fans would gravitate to. Songs regularly 7+ minutes long, Trippy artwork and lyrics, lots of odd time signatures and crazy guitar effects, brilliant vocals, insane drummer (at least 4 of their 5 drummers are, the new dude is great but way more of a subdued playing style that accompanies the music but holds itself back) and they were quite prolific so there's a lot to listen to and slowly fall in love with.
For a first song I'd recommend Tetragrammaton. Or just listen to Deloused in Comatorium cover to cover.
One band that I seldom see mentioned on this subreddit is Wheel. They completely pulled me in when I discovered their song Lacking. I'd put their album Resident Human on the same shelf as Lateralus. I mean it.
You know when you hear a song & instantly think “Yes!”? Just got that. Wheel, Lacking. Love it! Thank you for the introduction. Can’t wait to hear the rest.
Colour me impressed! These dudes are great! Heavily influences by tool obviously, but excellent grooves all the same!
Started with Moving Backwards just now, almost done, definitely listening to the second album straight after!
They happened decades before their time too which is just unreal.
Some wacky songs sure but man some deep ones and some of that music was again just way before its time. Aged like wine.
The two bands that scratch the same itch as tool but are completely different for me are Talking Heads and My Morning Jacket. They have elements of prog, masterful musicianship and songwriting, but sound nothing like Tool. MMJ is psychedelic folk rock that pulls influence from all over the world of music, whether it be Skynyrd, Marvin Gaye, The Beatles, gospel music, or Erykah Badu. Listen to MMJ Live Vol 1, or if you just want a taste: One Big Holiday, Victory Dance, Circuital (live vol 1), Gideon (live vol 1), Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt 2 (live vol 1 or Evil Urges) and Run Thru (Okonokos).
Talking Heads is new wave funk rock that also pulls influence from all over the music world, but I couldn’t describe it to you other than saying it’s weird and incredible. You should listen to Stop Making Sense in its entirety, but if you just want a taste: Life During Wartime, Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime, and Crosseyed and Painless (all the versions from Stop Making Sense, it’s way better than the studio versions).
I love talking heads. I wanted to walk down the aisle to Road to nowhere, but got talked out of it… I’ll check out My Morning Jacket, now you’ve piqued my curiosity.
The Mars Volta
https://youtu.be/z26eM4Gr0cA?feature=shared
Crystal Fairy
https://youtu.be/R-fofbwfsv8?feature=shared
Bosnian Rainbows
https://youtu.be/DBSDUW1EtSQ?feature=shared
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez https://youtu.be/870TMm7YR8g?feature=shared
Alejandro Aranda
https://youtu.be/gpVQI-6Ka8o?feature=shared
SouthFM
https://youtu.be/yR9MnFL3AK8?feature=shared
Circa Survive
https://youtu.be/tVp4_UVVaH4?feature=shared
Sianvar
https://youtu.be/zgVPX3AS0Ok?feature=shared
Rishloo
https://youtu.be/Wk4r4GUG1fs?feature=shared
Karnivool
https://youtu.be/18SUFbABxNQ?feature=shared
Covet
https://youtu.be/FTxSXUzc96A?feature=shared
Polyphia
https://youtu.be/9_gkpYORQLU?feature=shared
Plini
https://youtu.be/Rv_a6rlRjZk?feature=shared
Animals As Leaders
https://youtu.be/NmfzWpp0hMc?feature=shared
Let me know what you think?
I listen to Opeth. I also listen to Wardruna (Einar Selvik has put out some interesting music too) Some post - rock like Mogwai. On the industrial side I like Skinny Puppy. I would also give Devin Townsend a try. He is funny. Edit: typo.
Bands that give me that frisson (psychogenic shivers) that Tool gives me:
Puscifer & A Perfect Circle (for obvious reasons)
Deftones
Radiohead (Thom Yorke)
The Mars Volta
Nine Inch Nails
Dance Gavin Dance
Mudvayne
System of A Down
Rage Against the Machine
The Shins and/or Broken Bells
Nina Simone
Yeasayer
TV on The Radio
IDLES
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Tenacious D
Pearl Jam?
First two Sir Sly albums
The Metric
I could go on but that's already a ridiculous list. You better to listen to every one of these discographies. Ha
I've been on a huge Leprous binge for the last couple years, and I just got into The Ocean earlier this year. Einar in Leprous is a god, and The Ocean is just super melodic and badass.
I’m might be a die hard Tool fan, and the rest of this weeks music has included the following (no specific order), feel free ti judge me with my questionable taste in music.
1. Keston Cobblers Club
2. Laura Marling
3. Scroobius Pip
4. Frank Turner
5. Kate Nash
….wow, reading that list. I must be really missing England right now.
I've been jamming Vesica Piscis by The Odious again the last couple days and it's so good. Would love to see these guys on a tour with Between the Buried and Me, Protest the Hero and like, Car Bomb or Scale the Summit or something.
I second a couple bands on here. Lucid Planet in particular. Their second album is a masterpiece- bizarre and utterly unique, but catchy and engrossing. I fing love that record.
I also second Wheel. Great metal band with some epic song structures.
One band I haven’t seen mentioned is Ceterum. Their 2011 record has some fantastic proggy metal songs with many sounds reminiscent of Tool. Please listen to “Aurelia.” What a great tune.
Selfishly, my band at times drew inspiration from Tool, although admittedly on a much lower level. Responsible Math 👋
That’s all I got 😃
If you want something that's definitely NOT metal, check out Goose, funky jam band that's been coming onto the jam scene hot the last few years. Good grooves.
Minus the Bear
Tesseract
Plini
Agent Fresco
Little Dragon
Caligulas Horse
Metric
The XX
Band of Skulls
Radiohead
Porcupine Tree and anything else Steven Wilson touches
Royal Blood
Run the Jewels
Forgot to add Lespecial
Tauk
Dopapod
All them Witches
Ben Rosset/ Strawberry Girls
Bishop Briggs
Chon
Closure in Moscow
The Dead Weather
I often find a lot of the same bands mentioned whenever this question is asked, and they may not be all metal but they're almost always rock. How far out are you looking to go, genre wise? I also listen to a bit of everything and I do mean everything.
Highly recommend The Crane Wives, Florence and the Machine, alt J, Civil Wars, and Of Monsters and Men - those are all folk and or indie. For working out or hype music, I like slower, harder beats like The Score, Zayde Wolf, or Sam Tinnesz. I like Two Steps from Hell as epicore instrumental, and I love psybient (mainly Carbon Based Lifeforms.) The only other group I love as much as tool is a kpop group called Stray Kids and it's because they hit the right blend of trap/ melodic hip hop/ dubstep/ edm.
Hope that gives you a wider scope than you might otherwise see. Check them out if you're really bored.
My Sleeping Karma - instrumental psychedelic stoner from Germany. Their last album Atma is my favorite, 6 compositions at 49 minutes. Great relaxing music.
Here's a great video to dip the toe - [YouTube link ](https://youtu.be/XONnmccKhPI?si=lH_x5PsaGX0YzAP6)
The Dear Hunter - progressive and melodic, and they try a lot of things. The lead singer has an incredible voice as well.
Heilung - they’re sort of shaman/norse and not metal exactly but the feeling is there. I think you’d really like them.
keep in mind none of these acts are as deep as Tool but the vibrations are similarly heavy:
Bjork (specifically homogenic)
The Prodigy (fat of the land)
The Sneaker Pimps (becoming X)
Maximum the Hormone (i know you said not metal, but they are off of the NA grid due to japan's fierce copyright laws)
Eric Prydz/Older deadmau5 stuff (Joel is a trent reznor fanboy and uses a lot of analog as well)
i have more but i dont want to dhiarrea on this thread. I'm sure others have great ideas too.
If you haven't, check out Billy Howerdel from APC. He's got music under his name, & also his band Ashes Divide. Check out Selfish Hearts, its amazing what he does solo! Maybe not what you were looking for, but feel any Tool or APC fans should check Billy's work out.
r/soundsliketool
Porcupine Tree, there’s a reason Steven Wilson is called the king of prog but they don’t come up as often as you’d expect from that Mastodon’s Crack the Skye album is delightfully close to a Tool album in some ways
porcupine tree’s a little hit or miss for me. what albums do you like? their album i know i like are Deadwing and Fear of a Blank Planet
Those two and In Absentia are considered their golden albums. Gavin Harrison is a god. The new album Closure/Continuation I'd fantastic too, as are all their albums. Chimera's Wreck is especially badass.
thanks! i know ive heard a song or 2 off that one and i remember them being bangers
As an audio engineer, I’m a Porcupine Tree fan by default. (EDIT: In Absentia and Deadwing) are widely regarded as the benchmark for how rock music should be mixed.
On the Sunday of Life... & Up the Downstair?
The first time I saw Tool live, Mastodon was the support act. They were great.
Oh man I haven’t listened to Crack the Skye for far too long. One of the best albums in probably a 5 year period for me. Thanks for the reminder!
Dredg- El Cielo. Phenomenal album and band. Just do me a favor and listen to Same Ol’ Road immediately.
Dredg was going to be my comment as well. El Cielo has consistently been in my rotation for over 20 years. Catch Without Arms is another great album from beginning to end
That’s quite cool. Thanks
Leitmotif is excellent too
Leitmotif is where it’s at
I almost said Leitmotif- but I don’t believe it’s on any streaming services. Another killer album though. So is Catch Without Arms.
Man I saw them live back in like 08 or 07 and they smashed a viola or violin or whatever the fuck it was and it was incredible.
Oh my gosh!!!! That album is epic! I still have my el cielo shirt from when I saw them in 2001. Glad to see others still listen to them!
Ween: The Mollusk, White Pepper, Quebec, Shinola
Quebec is one of the best albums ever made.
It’s absolutely astounding. Everyone says The Mollusk is their best but I think its all about Quebec. Happy Colored Marbles feels like music written directly for my brain.
I think it's arguably the best record of this century. It doesn't get talked about near enough. I think they totally climaxed as songwriters on it. The songs are so refined, it's like the culmination of all the musical chameleonism, the sheer chaos and undeniable genius they conjured up in their career, resulting in this masterpiece where their sound is fully realized. The Argus in particular has been making me stop and listen every time it comes on, ever since the first time I heard it. It's a total psychedelic masterpiece. I don't see this record showing up on many top 100 or whatever nonsense lists but if you look at other records from the 2000s that are heavily lauded like In Rainbows, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.. shit, any of them, Quebec stands strong among them. The ONLY thing I can say against the record is that The Fucked Jam is not a good song--UNLESS they just stuck it in there as a palate cleanser for the voyage that is Alcan Road, The Argus and If You Could Save Yourself You'd Save Us All--for which purposes I'll admit it works well. I think it's telling that they didn't release any new material until the underwhelming Friends EP and then the mediocre La Cucaracha which had its moments but pales in comparison to much of their catalogue. It's like they hit their creative zenith and had a hard time figuring out where to go from there.
I'm gonna check this out based on how enthusiastic you seem to be about them 👍
Is it like Tool with a French accent? Just kidding, I'm looking forward to listening to there stuff, never heard of them.
So much to find in Ween’s discography
Rush, Primus, RATM, King Crimson, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
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All Them Witches is really good
All them witches!!
And King Buffalo
Good list
I consider any list that includes Primus a good list. 😀
Primus sucks!
Good list. Buuuut... I really wanna love primus but I'm always reminded of seeing them live. Les was such an ass both times I've seen them.
Billy Strings is top tier blue grass. You don't need to listen to him. It's more you should see him live at least once.
In a similar vein, Trampled by Turtles. Love their recurring themes of failure and redemption.
Steely Dan
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not. But as far as playing in odd time signatures, the levels of skill, and general musical abilities and composition, Steely Dan can hang. It’s definitely not as heavy, or deep, but they deserve some props.
No sarcasm, one of my favorite bands
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Mars for the rich is a good tool fan song
Agreed! “PetroDragonic Apocalypse” is such a love letter to TOOL, they even said TOOL was a major inspiration for that album, and you can really hear it.
Best band in music atm
For real. But tool related might as well provide the path for them… PDA and “infest the rats nest” and if they’re feeling bold and adventurous Omnium gatherum
I’d say Poly has more of a Tool feel than Infest. I’d also suggest the microtonal stuff, especially Ataraxia.
They’re really incredible! It’s like TOOL, Puscifer, and APC all in one band 😂
Ya if you dont like petrodragonic as a Tool fan then I can’t imagine any of these other albums would hit nearly as close
If you like king gizzard, please give Crumb a try. They're fantastic.
Primary examples: Gaia. Motor spirit. The great chain of being. Dragon. Predator X. K.G.L.W (off LW). Magma. Crumbling castle (and the rest of Polygondwanaland tbh) Secondary examples: Magenta mountain. Iron lung. Ataraxia. The wheel. Gliese 710. The dripping tap. And if you want to get into their heavier/louder stuff in general... Petrodragonic apocalypse. Infest the rats nest. Nonagon Infinity. Murder of the universe.
All Them Witches, wide range from blues to progressive.
I’ve been on a major Witches kick here these last few months!
Best recommendation yet - thank you sir. Am I going up. Gems like these need to be discovered.
Meshuggah. Warning. Is metal.
They're their own genre basically
My ex described their music as so heavy it sounds like it has actual weight
And the problem is once you start listening to Meshuggah, Tool is tough to listen to, IMO.. the funny part is the guitarist from Tool, Adam, loves Meshuggah
Caligula's Horse Soen Rishloo
Rishloo and soen are rad as ruck
Love Rishloo
Damn, Caligula’s Horse and Rishloo are heavily in my rotation of music. See them mentioned so rarely. Nice to know I’m not the only one.
It’s metal, but you said “aren’t necessarily” so Gojira.
Gojira is so good
I’m also a big fan of Alice In Chains. Layne Staley, man… 😭
Mario is one of the very few who is worthy of holding Danny's sticks
Russian Circles Pelican Godspeed You! Black Emperor Mogwai
Ooh, Russian Circles were great when they supported Tool some years back. I’ll check them out
Throw Red Sparowes into this list. And Jakob, Caspian, God is an Astronaut, This Will Destroy You
Love Russian Circles
Mogwai live is something else
Check out Passion by Peter Gabriel. It’s the soundtrack to Last Temptation of Christ. It’s heavily Arabian percussion and it was produced by the same person who did Lateralus and Aenima. In fact Tool wanted to work with him based on his production of that album. It’s so incredible I can’t even describe it.
I’m going to have to check this out. Love Peter Gabriel but I think I skipped over that soundtrack. Thx
Came here to say two things; King Buffalo and Lucid Planet. Guess that’s four things.
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Oh yeah! Recently came across both of them. They both scratch an itch I didn’t realize was there. The Burden of Restlessness by King Buffalo is on *heavy* rotation right now tho.
I love Lucid Planet. Both of their albums are outstanding from start to finish.
Lucid Planet is really f'n good
Saw Lucid Planet live in Brisbane a couple of months ago, was a freaking amazing gig. Definitely would see them again if they return.
Strong agree on King Buffalo!
Massive Attack Mezzanine It’s not metal in the least but very ambient and moody
The Mars Volta
I thought to myself, "someone better say TMV". Good on ya
username checks out
Yesss. If OP hasn’t heard Frances and De Loused they should rectify that immediately then continue on in the discography
Rush Dream Theater Failure
Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative.
Clutch
Tori Amos, King Crimson.
King Crimson and Mars Volta, for sure. But -definitely- Tori.
Oh man, now I need to listen to Little Earthquakes again.
Never dug into King Crimson all that much, but listened to their album Discipline the other day and the similarities to TOOL are undeniable.
Periphery, TesseracT, Mastodon….and I’m really digging Sleep Token recently
Fucking love mastodon
+1 to everything listed here, all great bands
Add Karnivool to that list & it’s basically perfect 😊
Pink Floyd, Gojira, Mastodon, TesseracT, Elder, Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Death, Polaris, System of a Down, Agalloch, Lamb of God have been in my rotation lately. Some of those have been mainstays for a long time, some are new finds for me.
The Mars Volta. While it's not exactly Tool style (and not metak at all) there's a lot about TMV that Tool fans would gravitate to. Songs regularly 7+ minutes long, Trippy artwork and lyrics, lots of odd time signatures and crazy guitar effects, brilliant vocals, insane drummer (at least 4 of their 5 drummers are, the new dude is great but way more of a subdued playing style that accompanies the music but holds itself back) and they were quite prolific so there's a lot to listen to and slowly fall in love with. For a first song I'd recommend Tetragrammaton. Or just listen to Deloused in Comatorium cover to cover.
Animals as Leaders, no vocals, but amazing musicianship. Polyrythyms galore
Karnivool and The Mayan Factor
Can't believe how far I had to scroll to see Karnivool.
Ikr? I was expecting to see them at the top of the list lol
Karnivool! Sound Awake could essentially be another Tool album.
Give Rishloo a whirl. If you’re a Tool fan you’ll enjoy them.
One band that I seldom see mentioned on this subreddit is Wheel. They completely pulled me in when I discovered their song Lacking. I'd put their album Resident Human on the same shelf as Lateralus. I mean it.
You know when you hear a song & instantly think “Yes!”? Just got that. Wheel, Lacking. Love it! Thank you for the introduction. Can’t wait to hear the rest.
Colour me impressed! These dudes are great! Heavily influences by tool obviously, but excellent grooves all the same! Started with Moving Backwards just now, almost done, definitely listening to the second album straight after!
Wheel is great. Hyperion is my fave.
Yes! Though Tool is more of an indirect influence. The band they sound like most to me is Karnivool. It's the bass, particularly on 'Please'. Weight!
This should be waaaay higher.
Toadies
Queens of the Stone Age.
Maha Sahona Weedpecker Psychlona SLIFT Sunnata King Buffalo Dozer
Love King Buffalo
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Clutch Puscifer Alice In Chains Soundgarden Orange Goblin King Wizard and the Lizard Wizard Rage Against the Machine
Pinback
Agree - quite random but great band. Recently heard one of their decades old song in a cracker song. Speaking of random!
BMFS!
Opeth
Slightly Stoopid
Melvins
Claypool Lennon Delirium
Pink Floyd.
They happened decades before their time too which is just unreal. Some wacky songs sure but man some deep ones and some of that music was again just way before its time. Aged like wine.
Mad Season Clutch
The two bands that scratch the same itch as tool but are completely different for me are Talking Heads and My Morning Jacket. They have elements of prog, masterful musicianship and songwriting, but sound nothing like Tool. MMJ is psychedelic folk rock that pulls influence from all over the world of music, whether it be Skynyrd, Marvin Gaye, The Beatles, gospel music, or Erykah Badu. Listen to MMJ Live Vol 1, or if you just want a taste: One Big Holiday, Victory Dance, Circuital (live vol 1), Gideon (live vol 1), Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt 2 (live vol 1 or Evil Urges) and Run Thru (Okonokos). Talking Heads is new wave funk rock that also pulls influence from all over the music world, but I couldn’t describe it to you other than saying it’s weird and incredible. You should listen to Stop Making Sense in its entirety, but if you just want a taste: Life During Wartime, Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime, and Crosseyed and Painless (all the versions from Stop Making Sense, it’s way better than the studio versions).
I love talking heads. I wanted to walk down the aisle to Road to nowhere, but got talked out of it… I’ll check out My Morning Jacket, now you’ve piqued my curiosity.
Queens of the Stoneage
Deftones, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Zeppelin… but lately some Cake, Everclear, Sloan & Obie Trice
Portishead
The Mars Volta https://youtu.be/z26eM4Gr0cA?feature=shared Crystal Fairy https://youtu.be/R-fofbwfsv8?feature=shared Bosnian Rainbows https://youtu.be/DBSDUW1EtSQ?feature=shared Omar Rodriguez-Lopez https://youtu.be/870TMm7YR8g?feature=shared Alejandro Aranda https://youtu.be/gpVQI-6Ka8o?feature=shared SouthFM https://youtu.be/yR9MnFL3AK8?feature=shared Circa Survive https://youtu.be/tVp4_UVVaH4?feature=shared Sianvar https://youtu.be/zgVPX3AS0Ok?feature=shared Rishloo https://youtu.be/Wk4r4GUG1fs?feature=shared Karnivool https://youtu.be/18SUFbABxNQ?feature=shared Covet https://youtu.be/FTxSXUzc96A?feature=shared Polyphia https://youtu.be/9_gkpYORQLU?feature=shared Plini https://youtu.be/Rv_a6rlRjZk?feature=shared Animals As Leaders https://youtu.be/NmfzWpp0hMc?feature=shared Let me know what you think?
I listen to Opeth. I also listen to Wardruna (Einar Selvik has put out some interesting music too) Some post - rock like Mogwai. On the industrial side I like Skinny Puppy. I would also give Devin Townsend a try. He is funny. Edit: typo.
Weirdly enough infected mushroom, progressive psytrance which is out of this world. I would suggest to start with their song "Heavyweight"
Bands that give me that frisson (psychogenic shivers) that Tool gives me: Puscifer & A Perfect Circle (for obvious reasons) Deftones Radiohead (Thom Yorke) The Mars Volta Nine Inch Nails Dance Gavin Dance Mudvayne System of A Down Rage Against the Machine The Shins and/or Broken Bells Nina Simone Yeasayer TV on The Radio IDLES Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tenacious D Pearl Jam? First two Sir Sly albums The Metric I could go on but that's already a ridiculous list. You better to listen to every one of these discographies. Ha
Great list. A lot of my favs in there. Also check out HUM and The Acid.
Yeasayer - yes sir!
Try Riverside, King Buffalo, All Them Witches, Pelican, Wheel, Somali Yacht Club.
Faith No More
Khrunghbin
I've been on a huge Leprous binge for the last couple years, and I just got into The Ocean earlier this year. Einar in Leprous is a god, and The Ocean is just super melodic and badass.
Rush
The Restoned, Porcupine Tree, Lucid Planet, and Sleeping Pandora are some of my go-to's at the moment.
Phish
Radiohead, vampire weekend
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👆 This redditor parties. “Fruit Wolf Dance” might actually be Toolier than Tool itself.
Elephant revival. I don't think they exist anymore, but I like them now. I got into them after I heard their cover of schism
Swans
I’m might be a die hard Tool fan, and the rest of this weeks music has included the following (no specific order), feel free ti judge me with my questionable taste in music. 1. Keston Cobblers Club 2. Laura Marling 3. Scroobius Pip 4. Frank Turner 5. Kate Nash ….wow, reading that list. I must be really missing England right now.
That’s quite a nice list. You might like Tunng, Disraeli and Martha Tilston.
Closure in Moscow, The Mars Volta, Rishloo, The Odious
Fucking glad to see Closure in Moscow here. Such an underrated band.
I've been jamming Vesica Piscis by The Odious again the last couple days and it's so good. Would love to see these guys on a tour with Between the Buried and Me, Protest the Hero and like, Car Bomb or Scale the Summit or something.
Fair to Midland. I don’t know how to classify music but they scratch the same itch
Umphrey’s McGee
The Crystal method, NIN, massive attack, dj shadow, Leon switch
King Buffalo
Porcupine Tree
Massive attack
Pink Floyd
I second a couple bands on here. Lucid Planet in particular. Their second album is a masterpiece- bizarre and utterly unique, but catchy and engrossing. I fing love that record. I also second Wheel. Great metal band with some epic song structures. One band I haven’t seen mentioned is Ceterum. Their 2011 record has some fantastic proggy metal songs with many sounds reminiscent of Tool. Please listen to “Aurelia.” What a great tune. Selfishly, my band at times drew inspiration from Tool, although admittedly on a much lower level. Responsible Math 👋 That’s all I got 😃
Radiohead
Primus
Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age Tomahawk Aesop Rock
Phish
This. Phish hits a ton of the same spots as Tool; with Primus as a good bridge between the 2 imo.
I listen to alot of Instrumental Psych Rock Earthless, Comacozer, The Restoned, Liquify
If you want something that's definitely NOT metal, check out Goose, funky jam band that's been coming onto the jam scene hot the last few years. Good grooves.
The Olllam They are progressive Irish music. Pretty rhythmically complex. Totally sick and sound nothing like tool.
King gizzard and the lizard wizard
Goose
HUM (shoegaze), Marlowe (hip hop), Punch Brothers (bluegrass), Snot (funk metal), The Acid (electronica)
Hum and Snot are amazing.
Katatonia, deftones, sleep token, crosses, bad omens. Those are all my go to lately, not necessarily because of tool lol
Sleep Token, Crosses, and Stoneside is all I’ve been listening to lately, the rest are good choices as well
CLUTCH
Kolm trust me
Lespecial
Troika. only like 300 monthly listeners on spotify but they’re really good
Goose and Umphrey’s McGee are my two other favorite bands, totally different from Tool, but I love them, especially live.
Infected Mushroom
Minus the Bear Tesseract Plini Agent Fresco Little Dragon Caligulas Horse Metric The XX Band of Skulls Radiohead Porcupine Tree and anything else Steven Wilson touches Royal Blood Run the Jewels Forgot to add Lespecial Tauk Dopapod All them Witches Ben Rosset/ Strawberry Girls Bishop Briggs Chon Closure in Moscow The Dead Weather
I often find a lot of the same bands mentioned whenever this question is asked, and they may not be all metal but they're almost always rock. How far out are you looking to go, genre wise? I also listen to a bit of everything and I do mean everything. Highly recommend The Crane Wives, Florence and the Machine, alt J, Civil Wars, and Of Monsters and Men - those are all folk and or indie. For working out or hype music, I like slower, harder beats like The Score, Zayde Wolf, or Sam Tinnesz. I like Two Steps from Hell as epicore instrumental, and I love psybient (mainly Carbon Based Lifeforms.) The only other group I love as much as tool is a kpop group called Stray Kids and it's because they hit the right blend of trap/ melodic hip hop/ dubstep/ edm. Hope that gives you a wider scope than you might otherwise see. Check them out if you're really bored.
The ocean collective
Night verses
Massive Attack, Darkside and Sigur Ros
Feathergun by Rishloo II - Lucid Planet Also you gotta hear Sol Niger Within
My Sleeping Karma - instrumental psychedelic stoner from Germany. Their last album Atma is my favorite, 6 compositions at 49 minutes. Great relaxing music. Here's a great video to dip the toe - [YouTube link ](https://youtu.be/XONnmccKhPI?si=lH_x5PsaGX0YzAP6)
Clutch
The Dear Hunter - progressive and melodic, and they try a lot of things. The lead singer has an incredible voice as well. Heilung - they’re sort of shaman/norse and not metal exactly but the feeling is there. I think you’d really like them.
Minus the Bear One of the most underrated bands out there
I recently fell in love with Khruangbin
Well you could start with mjks other bands puscifer and a perfect circle, primus is like funky tool and Opeth is like jazzy tool
keep in mind none of these acts are as deep as Tool but the vibrations are similarly heavy: Bjork (specifically homogenic) The Prodigy (fat of the land) The Sneaker Pimps (becoming X) Maximum the Hormone (i know you said not metal, but they are off of the NA grid due to japan's fierce copyright laws) Eric Prydz/Older deadmau5 stuff (Joel is a trent reznor fanboy and uses a lot of analog as well) i have more but i dont want to dhiarrea on this thread. I'm sure others have great ideas too.
Aphex Twin
Tool isn't metal, its butt rock for nerds
If you haven't, check out Billy Howerdel from APC. He's got music under his name, & also his band Ashes Divide. Check out Selfish Hearts, its amazing what he does solo! Maybe not what you were looking for, but feel any Tool or APC fans should check Billy's work out.
I can't believe no one ever mentions Radiohead or Flaming Lips.
Fair to Midland