Tool - Opiate FORMAT:CD If you survive something terrible

If you survive something terrible

9-13 is 9 songs and 48 minutes of total nihilism

resulting in 12 inimitable powerful and thrashy songs

And all the while a passing cast of characters imbue the tale with both human and non-human emotions

FLOAT delivers another iteration of the band's sonic evolution

Tool - Opiate FORMAT:CD If you survive something terribleAs the title of Tool's 1992 debut implies, they're none too impressed by religion, though other targets fear ("Cold and Ugly"), hypocritical moralizing ("Jerk Off"), nonconformity ("Hush") get their time in the spotlight as well. Opiate is a collection of heavy, aggressive, cynical music (though the tail end of the title track sounds more like acid rock), packaged in songs noticeably shorter than on their later efforts (Undertow, 1993, and Aenima,