If you had to, I bet you could name at least a handful of bands that sound like Tool. Or maybe more than a handful. But are any of them any good? Sure, there's a ton of imitators, but can any of them even hold a candle to the originator?
Nobody's quite gotten Tool down pat just yet, but Australia's Arcane do a pretty good job of taking a Toolish kind of vibe and making it their own, filtering it through a more symphonic, epic lens. For a sample, have a listen to "Keeping Stone: Sound on Fire" from the band's latest double-album Known/Learned. It's more straight forward than a Tool song might be, but it's got at least enough grandiosity and brooding atmosphere to earn it a spot at the Tool table.
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