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10,000 Days is Tool's fourth studio album, released in 2006. It was the first record the band made back at Grandmaster Recorders — a return to the studio where they cut Undertow in 1993 — and the first without producer David Bottrill. Three singles charted in the top ten of the rock charts: "Vicarious," "The Pot," and "Jambi." If this album is a staple for you, you gravitate toward music that is heavy, patient, and architecturally dense — and that same appetite runs through metal documentaries, dark fiction, and games where the genre is built into the world itself.
About 10,000 Days
10,000 Days is the fourth studio album by the American metal band Tool. The album was released by Tool Dissectional and Volcano Entertainment on April 28, 2006 in parts of Europe, April 29, 2006 in Australia, May 1, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and on May 2, 2006 in North America. It marked the first time since recording 1993's Undertow that the band had worked at Grandmaster and without producer David Bottrill. 10,000 Days spawned three top ten rock singles: "Vicarious", "The Pot", and "Jambi".
From the Wikipedia article 10,000_Days_(Tool_album), available under CC BY-SA.
Films like 10,000 Days
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Long Live Rock... Celebrate the Chaos
An oral history of heavy rock told through the bands who forged it — Metallica, Slipknot, Korn, and dozens more speak directly.
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Metallica: Through the Never
A roadie's simple errand fractures into something surreal mid-concert, blurring the real and the hallucinatory.
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The Ballad of Judas Priest
A half-century portrait of a band that grew from industrial Britain into a defining force of heavy metal.
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Metalhead
A young woman in 1990s Iceland channels grief and isolation into metal, searching for a way forward through sound.
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Heavy Trip
Twelve years of rehearsal, zero gigs — a Finnish band bets everything on breaking out of their small village.
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Black Metal Veins
An unflinching documentary tracing despair and self-destruction through the lives of five heroin addicts.
Series like 10,000 Days
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M3: The Dark Metal
Children bound by a shared dark void reunite years later to fight monsters from that same lightless realm.
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BASTARD‼ -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-
A dark wizard is summoned to stop a God of Destruction — fantasy built around the vocabulary of heavy metal.
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Classic Albums
A documentary series examining the records that defined artists and marked turning points in music history.
Games like 10,000 Days
Frequently asked
What should I watch after getting into Tool's 10,000 Days?
The documentary Long Live Rock... Celebrate the Chaos dives deep into the heavy metal world with interviews from Metallica, Slipknot, and Korn, while Metalhead tells a moving story of grief and metal's power to heal.
Are there any games for fans of Tool's 10,000 Days?
Brutal Legend is the most obvious pick — a heavy metal action-adventure built entirely around the culture and mythology of the genre, and Double Kick Heroes lets you literally blast through a zombie apocalypse to a metal soundtrack.
Is there a TV show that captures the dark, heavy atmosphere of 10,000 Days?
BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- wears its metal influence right in the title, blending dark fantasy and explosive action, while Classic Albums offers an in-depth documentary look at landmark records in rock and metal history.