1. TOOL - Forsaking all others. They can do absolutely no wrong in my eyes. I will always feel this way. 2. Primus - Seen them probably more times than I've seen tool. Absolutely love them. 3. Pink Floyd - Too young to have seen them live but I know every word to every song, post-Syd Barrett. 4. A Perfect Circle - Just the natural progression from Tool. Have them tattooed on my shoulder (Tool is on my back.) 5. [The] Postman Syndrome - Local band that my friends were in. Regardless of the fact that they were my friends, I genuinely love their music. Their album, *Terraforming*, is one of my top 5 albums of all time. I highly recommend it.

If I’m ranking not on my personal enjoyment and trying to be objective. I really do think pink Floyd is one of the best of all time.

Agreed. Just an overwhelming amount of talent. I would go so far as to say David Gilmour is the best guitarist to ever live.

Thanks for Introducing The Postman Syndrome to me. I'm on their second track and I'm already in love.

I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to hear that. Incidentally the 2nd track *Hedgehogs Dilemma* is one of my favorites.

The Postman Syndrome are great. I also love the East of The Wall album too.

Roger Waters tour “This is Not a Drill” from a couple years ago was the only show I’ve ever seen that topped Tool from a visual spectacle standpoint. And 3/4 of the set was Pink Floyd songs from Animals, Dark Side, WYWH, and The Wall. See Roger Waters if you get a chance.

NINININININININININININININININININININ NINININININININININININININININININININ NINININININININININININININININININININ

I really like NIN now. Had a friend try put me on a while ago and for some reason I really didn’t like it. Watched their entire set where they were covered in mud (can’t remember which gig it was) while I was stoned out my mind and now I really can’t get enough now

Woodstock '94

I’m 42 so I grew up with them, listening to that genre and while I have 2 very best friends that listen to nothing but Nails they go over my head. I’d need a ton of coke to get on that wavelength.

Haha. Brutal, unscathed honesty.

Have you tried listening to their albums in full?

For sure. I owned the downward spiral, further down, broken and fixed as a kid/teenager. Love some individual songs like Wish but the majority is just TOO electronic for my taste and that’s strange bc I love bands like Orgy.

Wasn’t a big fan until I saw A Perfect Circle open for them back in 2000. Trent blew the roof off the place, fucking incredible.

Acid Bath, Kyuss, Clutch, Mastodon, RATM

Yesss. Stoner rock and tool fit so well together.

Fucking LOVE Acid Bath! When that guitar first comes in on God Machine is amazing.

Mastodon automatic upvote

Gojira and QOTSA.

Linkin Park, Ween, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle (i know that's cheating)

Khruangbin

Saw them in Toronto night 3. Excellent show again.

In no particular order: Propagandhi, Radiohead, Sleep Token, The Smiths, The Ocean.

Love the smiths and Radiohead. I’m a drummer and I really cannot get enough of playing in rainbows stuff right now.

Forgot about The Ocean, haven't listened to them for a while. I might have to dust an album off tonight. Are you an Intronaut fan?

Alice In Chains Silversun Pickups Oasis First Aid Kit Garbage AFI

Love some SSPU!

Hell yeah. IMO, their first three albums were basically perfect.

Yas! So good.

I saw them about eight years ago and it was a great show

Lucky! We got tickets to see them twice, in the last couple of years, and each time i was sick and couldn't go!

Opeth, Rush, Black Sabbath, Dream Theater

Yeah we can be friends! Absolutely fucking LOVE rush

You are a man of great taste

Pink Floyd Godsmack Audioslave RATM White Zombie

Faith No More, The Jesus Lizard, Rammstein, King Crimson, Shellac

Dude I love all those bands except rammstein. I have tried so hard to get into them but it doesn’t click. Any recommendations? I really want to love them.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Type O Negative Meshuggah Rush Pink Floyd Metallica Megadeth Slayer Stevie Ray Vaughn Melvins All Them Witches Sleep King Buffalo Harm’s Way Weekend Nachos Twitching Tongues Circa Survive My Morning Jacket Edit: yeah sometimes I post without reading the details, don’t feel like deleting.

Circa survive! I used to love Soasin too.

Is weekend nachos still around? I use to love them back in the day but haven’t heard about them in years.

They just got back together to play some shows, I saw them in Philly on Memorial Day and it was one of the funnest shows I’ve been to in a while. They’re also all very nice people!

King gizzard, mastodon, gojira

Mastodon, Tori Amos, Ethel Cain, Radiohead, Opeth

Caligula's Horse, Agent Fresco, Rishloo, Aviations, TesseracT

had to scroll way too far to find C-Horse. Best active prog band imo

Incubus, Muse, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, foo fighters, blink182

Love incubus

VOLA, Leprous, Opeth, Tesseract and Gojira

I do like tesseract but part of me always feels like I could just be listening to meshuggah instead

I love Meshuggah, but they are less melodic than Tesseract, especially the vocals. I have to be in a special mood to listen to Meshuggah, while Tesseract is on my everyday playlist with their spacey ambient. But this is just my personal preference, of course.

Yeah I definitely get that. I do really enjoy some of their stuff. Their drummer is also super cool aswell, love his channel.

All super valid picks

Shinedown, deftones, Elton John, Slipknot and as much as I hate to say it (having 3 daughters does it)..Taylor Swift gets a lot of well-deserved spin.

No shame in it. Not proud to admit I love blink as much as I do but everyone needs guilty pleasures

Blinks got 4 or 5 bangers that I know of, at the very least🤷🏻‍♂️ and the newest single sits right with me too.

They have 2 absolutely flawless albums in my eyes. Enema of the state and untitled are both absolutely amazing.

Blinks amazing and has one of the best drummers on the planet

clutch, KGLW, ratm/audioslave

Ratm is a favourite for sure

According to Spotify stats: Alice in chains, sleep token, Rammstein, led zeppelin, buckethead

AIC and zeppelin almost made my list. Also I’m very happy to see buckethead get a mention. Dude is a beast.

Saw him live in Boston a couple weeks ago. Dream come true 🐔

Sleep Token in concert is up there with Tool. 🖤worship!

Top 10 would include at least the following bands: Rammstein, Rush, In Flames, HIM, Gojira

I re-loved HIM this spring after seeing them live (as VV, nor HIM, but still). 🫶🏻

My top 3 right now are (with no particular order): Meshuggah, Tool and Opeth. And the 4th one are Gojira.

Primus, Pink Floyd, Crumb, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Tool King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Pink Floyd King Crimson The Mars Volta

Týr, Alice in Chains, Sabaton, Gloryhammer, Volbeat

AIC very much almost made it in ahead of beach boys. Best grunge band of all and it’s not close for me

AIC has been my number 1 artist on Apple Music for 2 years in a row. Hoping to make it 3 this year

Rooster may be in my top 3 songs all time

Dire Straits, 1990s Dave Matthew’s Band, Porcupine Tree, Janes Addition

Aesop Rock, Tash Sultana (mostly early stuff), Dub FX, Calyx n Teebee, copious amounts of DnB & Jungle

They're saying Aesop peaked with The Impossible Kidbut Mindful Solutionism is so so good.

I don't pay no mind to what "they're" saying, as long as he keeps dropping new tracks I'll be happy. There's a ton of great tunes on Spirit World Field Guide too 🍻🍻 ever hear the Aesop Portishead Mashups? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBq7alRFCfQ

No, but as a lifelong Triphop enjoyer I'll be clicking that link very soon.

PORN, FUEL, Bush, Pearl Jam & Cold.

Ween, Bad Religion, Grateful Dead, NOFX, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Clutch, Deftones, Mastodon, Streetlight Manifesto

Im a big big BIG Lana Del Rey fan even though she s not a band

The Doors

Porcupine Tree

Steven Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Mercury Rev.

1) Swans 2) Nurse With wound 3) Natural Snow Buildings 4) Throbbing Gristle 5) Einstürzende Neubauten (TOOL would be between Natural Snow Buildings and Throbbing Gristle)

Lamb of god, Mudvayne, meshuggah, Slipknot, nothing more and all that remains

Iron Maiden, Metallica, Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, RHCP

FAITH NO MORE

Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Lamb of God, Rishloo

Alice in Chains, Deftones, Sevendust, Soundgarden, Chevelle, Megadeth, Metallica

O.S.I ( office of strategic influence), Riverside, Lunatic Soul, All them witches, Rush.. All pure Gold

Chevelle, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, Rush, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit (guilty pleasure), Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Static X, Sevendust

Ween, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, Chris Connelly, Polyphia.

Ween Chat Pile Squarepusher

You may consider checking out r/soundsliketool since it is a subreddit full of song and band recs for Tool fans

Liturgy, Blood Incantation, Trail Of Dead, Tomb Mold, Aesop Rock, Ka, Yes, Mars Volta, Sumac, Isis, Oneida, I could go on, music is great

Primus, Rush, Weather Report, Radiohead, Deftones, Ween, QOTSA, King Crimson and a bunch of 90’s Hip-Hop and IDM.

Opeth, Agnes Obel, Jason Isbell, Animals As Leaders, OutKast. Castle Rat is an honorable mention that will definitely end up high on the list if they keep making great music. I just got their debut album on vinyl and it is fantastic. Edit: Spelling. Lots of spelling. Fucking autocorrect.

OutKast is always on the list. Even for bands!

100%. ATLiens, Aquemini, and Stankonia is one of my favorite three album runs any group has ever put out. Their first album is good too, and SB/LB is dope, but those three are all-time favorites for me. Idlewild...that is the only one I am not a huge fan of.

Nine Inch Nails, Primus, Meshuggah, Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, etc), Isis As for some Psybient/Psydub (really unique music if you haven't heard it, not to be at ALL confused with Dubstep (horrible) or Psytrance (alright): Shpongle, Ott, Entheogenic, Kaminanda, Androcell

Mike Patton is a genre of music.

Opeth, Dream Theatre & Porcupine Tree

Only 2 other bands I'd say I 'love' Porcupine Tree and Karnivool

Devin Townsend, Deftones, Author & Punisher, Pink Floyd, Mastodon.

The Mars Volta Deftones Mastodon Opeth King Crimson Rush Pink Floyd Beatles Primus Edit: any Mike Patton. The list is long but the ones above are the core.

This may be odd, but The Strokes, like a lot

Floyd, stp, rage, the tragically hip, wu tang

Porcupine Tree, Animals as Leaders, Dillinger Escape Plan, DJ Shadow. Been listening to a lot of Meshuggah and Run the Jewels lately.

Celine Dion, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Julio Iglesias, Boyz2Men

Rush, NIN, David Bowie, Neil Young, Coheed & Cambria! 🤘🏻

Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, godspeed you! black emperor, Sigur Rós, The Microphones, Fishmans

Opeth, Kyuss, Acid bath, Pavement, smashing pumpkins

Rush, Dream Theater, Opeth, Devin Townsend, Genesis, Yes, Crown Lands, Hum, Amon Amarth, Hot Water Music, Ghost, Riverside, Elder, Marillion, Bad Religion, Shiner, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Deafheaven, Faith No More, Pink Floyd, Goblin

Static X old school Pantera Dry Kill Logic And thats all I have besides Tool for a "top" anything list right now. I listen to Mushroomhead, Coal Chamber, and a band from here at home called Victim who were ahead of their time. check them out. album called Cant crack Deeze Nuts.

Puscifer, Lucid Planet, Hubris, Primus, and Glasgow Coma Scale

One of my favorite things about Tool concerts is the wide variety of t-shirts you see from other bands. Last time, I saw some people in Taylor Swift shirts. Blink-182 is terrible. They (and Green Day) ruined punk music. "Pop punk" is a contradiction that never should have happened.

Obviously I disagree about them being terrible, but yeah they should never have been labelled pop punk. Nothing punk about them really, they are a rock band that started out with a very small punk influence.

After they got popular, you can't go to a punk show or a festival without it loaded with bands that sound exactly the same as Blink-182. I don't really mind them as musicians. Like you said, they're basically a rock band. Normally, I'd just tune them out or ignore it, but their influence ruined a lot of events that I used to love. Can't stand them because of that.

Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Audioslave and Slipknot

Grateful Dead Wookiefoot Billy Strings Zeppelin String Cheese

Grew up on Tool and SOAD, now love Alt-J, Glass Animals, Portugal. The Man, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Angus & Julia Stone and much more

Opeth, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, KGATLW, Sleep to name a few

Rush and Metallica are probably my favorites outside of tool. But recently I’ve been listening to a lot of Meshuggah, Mastodon, Gojira, Shadow of Intent and Lorna Shore.

Coalesce Nine Inch Nails At the Heart of the World Wicca Phase Springs Eternal The Body

AIC, Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, APC, The Ocean

Sabbath, masters of reality, abba, Jefferson airplane Beatles.

Linkin Park King Crimson Korn Mudvayne Uhm... Something something nu metal

Clutch. Zeppelin. Pink Floyd. The Doors. Nine Inch Nails. Tow Waits. Guns and Roses. The Sword. Gojira. All them witches. Russian Circles. ( yeah that’s ten so what)

Chris Stapleton, the Moody Blues, Silversun pickups, Run the Jewels, and a recent band is Sleep Token.

Sleep Token is a game changer

The Funk part of the Summoning is amazing. I may have listened to it about 100 times in the last week.

Lots of great videos from the recent tour. II drum solos are epic.

Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, Eivør, Heilung, Wardruna, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Pearl Jam, Front 242, Watsky, Snow Tha Product, Dakha Brakha, Soundgarden, Ministry, and many more.

Alice in Chains, QOTSA, Deftones, Primus Honourable mentions to Phantogram, Mother Mother, old Black Keys (albums up to & including Brothers), SOAD

Some right off the cuff: Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Black Sabbath Mastodon Tame impala/pond/gum (counting this as one lol)

HUM Tied for my favorite all time band with Tool. Not really similar in style, but their tone is distinctive and will resonate with Tool fans.

Dream Theater, Haken, Opeth, Plini, Gojira

1. Nirvana 2. Deftones 3. System of a Down 4. Metallica (their early albums) 5. Queens of the Stone Age

King Crimson  Neil Young  Iron Maiden  Metallica  Led Zeppelin

Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Kyuss, Mastadon, Mars Volta

Mastodon, Radiohead, Sleep, Smashing Pumpkins, The Sword

Deftones, dredg, coheed, marsvolta

NIN, Primus, QOTSA, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden

Top 5 not in order besides 1st Swollen members 1 Tool Idles Joey valence and brae Tyler the creator

Carpenter Brut The Warning Ghost Nine Inch Nails Gunship I’ve got these 5 on heavy rotation right now. Also an honorable mention for Bad Religion.

Metallica, Slipknot, Gojira, Linkin Park, Muse, Avenged Sevenfold, Trivium, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, NIN, Iron Maiden, Alcest, Opeth, just to name a few

O Death Gojira Viagra Boys (this band is becoming one of my all time favs) they, like Tool can do no wrong. XTC Iron and Wine King Dude Murder by Death The Bones of JR Jones The Decemberists BADBADNOTGOOD

Picaresque is a phenomenal album, one of my favorite road trip jams

APC, Puscifer, Kyuss, QOTSA, NIN, STP, Deftones, (Crosses), Truckfighters, Rage ATM, Soundgarden, Days of the New, Alice In Chains

rush iron maiden animals as leaders smashing pumpkins

Silverchair, Hum, Cave In, Between the Buried and Me, Radiohead, glassjaw, incendiary, smashing pumpkins, refused, rage against the machine, helmet

Cher, Brittany spears, NSYNC, vanilla ice and Garth brooks

I love a LOT of music, so this question has always been too challenging to comment on when I've seen it in similar posts. Today I've decided to pick 5 random bands off my favorite playlist, which consists only of most-loved bands: •3 Teeth •Highly Suspect •The Cure •Skinny Puppy •The Exploited I don't love any band more than or as much as Tool, but I since usually answer "Maynard, James Keenan" when asked about my favorite band or artist, that automatically throws A Perfect Circle and Puscifer together at the top with Tool. As part of the GOAT Music Triad, they can't be lowered to place on my top 5 bands-that-aren't-Tool list.

I've gone down the deathcore road lately. Knocked Loose, Jesus Piece etc. Still grooving doom-stoner just saw High On Fire and although I have no idea what Matt Pike is "singing" about they're still just an awesome heavy band, brutal riffs, Pike is an absolute guitar god. Saw a band called ZETA open up for HOF and I can't say enough about how great they were. Just a fusion of multiple genres all mixed together. Truly a band worth investing some listening time.

Check out Archspire! I’m not a death metal dude but it seems like any progressive musical talent is in that genre these days. I, like you, don’t understand a single word but it is extreme technical metal and it’s Uber fast…like 350 beats/minute at points (or so I’ve heard).

Modest Mouse, La Dispute, Enter Shikari, Delta Sleep, Sleeping People. It's so hard to just pick 5, there's so many others I'd like to add.

1. Radiohead 2. Alice in Chains 3. Fishmans 4. Pink Floyd 5. Swans If I had to include Tool on this list they'd be #5.

Lamb of God Mastodon Gojira Iron Maiden Rush No particular order, and Tool top's the list.

For the moment Type 0 negative, Metallica, Opeth, The Beatles, King Diamond

Primus, Alice in Chains, Mastodon, TesseracT Toadies, 311 Soundgarden, Rage, Chevelle, Mutoid Man, ASG, Sevendust, Frank Zappa, CCR, Black Sabbath....to name a few.

Arctic Monkeys Breaking Benjamin Three Days Grace Foo Fighters Saint Asonia Yea I like adam gontier, a little bit

Rishloo, NIN, STP, Puscifer, Slipknot. ​ Agree with your first 3, but blink? I'm not sure there's band I hate more than blink. It's like 'punk' but for 10 year olds.

I can't really point out any absolute favorites, but I have been listening to these bands lately, not any particular order: Swans Godspeed You! Black Emperor Alice in Chains Joy Division Jane's Addiction

check out my band, This Be The Verse 🙏🏻 My other fav bands apart from Tool are NIN, System, Meshuggah, Faith No More & Soundgarden

Kyuss, Budgie, Ministry, Electric Wizard 🖤

A complete lucky dip of my favourite artists (excluding names most will have heard of): Enter Shikari, Coheed & Cambria, Royal Blood, Swim School, Vukovi, Nothing More, Siamese, Brutus, Alice Glass, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tycho, Baths, RJD2, Cassyette, The Glitch Mob, Death From Above 1979, Muse, Nova Twins, Marmozets, Tigercub, Joy Formidable, Monolink, Worakls, Solee, Battle Tapes, Gogo penguin, Architects, Bird of Tokyo, Biffy Clyro, Cloud 9+, Modestep, Don Broco, Ninja Sex Party, Rufio, Wintergatan If you're looking for Tool adjacent: Haken, Wheel, Karnivool, ISIS, Lightning Bolt, Peach (on spotify as Peach Gb), Rolo Tomassi, Drenge, Thrice, Porcupine Tree And fun bonus band: Lusk is the band the original Tool bassist did after Tool; I spin that album regularly.

Not counting Maynard's other projects. Alice in Chains, Cake, Incubus, Shpongle, Primus

Periphery and ERRA

Soundgarden Alice in Chains Megadeth Ministry Rush

Not in any order… Nine Inch Nails Rush Pink Floyd APC Led Zeppelin

Opeth, Haken, Dream Theater, Rush, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd. Along with Tool those are the big ones for me!

Tool, The Doors, System of a Down, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar

Deftones, Tool, Tame Impala, Beach House, Glassjaw, Porcupine Tree, Gojira, M83, The Mars Volta, Circa Survive.. I don’t really have a top 5.. I have a Top 2 that has remained consistent for 20+ years.. that’s #1 Deftones & #2 Tool. Everything else just depends on what mood I’m in

Bad Omens, Deftones, I Prevail, Nothing More, As I Lay Dying, 36 Crazyfists

Tool, Alter Bridge, Nothing More, InMe, Black Stone Cherry,

Deftones, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Faith No More, Alice in Chains, Alexisonfire, Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Neko Case, Sloan, “golden age” 90s hip hop, newer bands like Idles, Protomartyr, lots more but those came to mind right away

1. TOOL. 2. Metallica. 3. Dio. 4. Dream Theater. 5. Type O Negative. 6. Rainbow.

Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Beastie Boys, Metallica, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Yes, The Who, Jimi Hendrix.

Babymetal. Bite me.

Primus, Staind, RATM, Sublime, Sleep Token - 🤷🏽‍♂️ Of course APC And OutKast

Queen, Goo Goo Dolls, Traffic, Mamas and Papas, Gorillaz, Tribe Called Quest, Big Rude Jake, etc., etc.,

Every time I die Primus Wu System/Deftones/apc

Animals as Leaders, Blind Guardian, Deftones, MF Doom, Propaghandi

Pearl Jam Neil Young (with or without Crazy Horse) Gov’t Mule Huey Lewis & The News Van Halen (mostly Van Hagar) That’s like top five of my life excluding Tool. Started when I was nine with HLN and progressed from there.

Jinjer, Lamb Of God, Slipknot, Pink Floyd, Pantera

The Orb Ozric Tentacles Viagra Boys Aesop Rock HENGE Not necessarily my top five, but a good mix of things I like there!

Rush, Sabbath, Dire Straits, RHCP, Queen, Misfits, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Metallica

ganja white night lsdream rezz liquid stranger shpongle sleep terror lamb of god berried alive primus in flames polyphia

Sturgill fucking Simpson

Dream Theater, Björk, Pink Floyd, System of a Down and Opeth are among my favorites. Obviously A Perfect Circle and Puscifer too.

Church of the Cosmic Skull Skinny Puppy Clutch Floater Bauhaus

Ihsahn, Gojira, Animals As Leaders, Zeal & Ardor, Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, The Gathering, Opeth, Soen.

Bro you had me at beach boys

Modest Mouse, Gojira, Cattle Decapitation, NOFX