Rating: ééé1/2
Genre: Hard Rock
Tomahawk released their first album in 2001; three years after founder/lead singer Mike Patton's previous band (Faith No More) broke up. This is one of three bands he currently fronts (can you say overachiever?).The album is almost universally loved by the critics, and musically it's better than the three and a half stars I've given it for pure listenability. According to the industry it qualifies as Heavy- or Alt-Metal, but for the past few years that's meant, to me, too loud and too angry, with the music something you have to dig to find. This album has some great stuff on it. To whit, Stone Letter, A Thousand Eyes, Choke Neck or Waratorium. All have great musicality, plenty of hooks, interesting rhythms and a touch of metal sludge. (Okay, so Warratorium has a lot of metal sludge; shoot me.)
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