Undertow
by Tool

Album
Undertow by Tool
Year: 1993
Release date: 1993-04-06
Overall rank: 1,119th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 521 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1993 (20th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (213th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,119th)

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Tool bestography

Undertow is ranked 5th best out of 8 albums by Tool on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tool is Lateralus which is ranked number 166 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,511.

Tool album bestography « Higher ranked (1,065th)
Fear Inoculum This album (1,119th)
Undertow Lower ranked (3,787th) »
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Undertow track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Track pick (860 - 124 votes)
Intolerance
Average Rating: 86 (124 votes)Comments: View 1
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Prison Sex
Average Rating: 88 (161 votes)Comments: View 2
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Track pick (900 - 223 votes)
Sober
Average Rating: 90 (223 votes)Comments: View 3
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Bottom
Average Rating: 82 (108 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Crawl Away
Average Rating: 80 (104 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Swamp Song
Average Rating: 83 (110 votes)Comments: View 0
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Undertow
Average Rating: 84 (116 votes)Comments: View 1
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4°
Average Rating: 82 (106 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Flood
Average Rating: 83 (103 votes)Comments: View 1
10.
Disgustipated
Average Rating: 75 (101 votes)Comments: View 0

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Undertow rankings

Undertow rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,119th | 1990s rank: 213th | 1993 rank: 20th  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 7 hours ago).

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Undertow ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 521 votes)
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70/100
 !		3 days ago glebrus  Ratings distribution  46981/100
 
55/100
 !		07/07/2026 17:02 DommeDamian  Ratings distribution  7,47049/100
 
75/100
 !		05/07/2026 19:49 CJMishellsan  Ratings distribution  56087/100
 
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 !		04/14/2026 12:16 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  14,77970/100
 
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 !		04/04/2026 04:49 Devilwoac  Ratings distribution  1,37397/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.


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Undertow comments

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100/100
From 12/12/2025 07:48 | #312110
It's just a plague, not an album. How the hell can you come up with such a thing... The vocals are generally a bomb and the pitch and timbre... I like him more than any of the others. It really evokes emotions..
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75/100
From 12/09/2025 21:34 | #312074 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Cracking start with the first 3 songs but then the rest fails to keep up due to their droning style of Prog Metal. The last track could have done without the 10 minutes of crickets before the end message. With experimental shit like that, you can't help but think they're a bunch of pretentious wankers. Which is a shame as they've got some great music.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 09/09/2023 13:43 | #299055
Pedrada progressiva foda!
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50/100
From 02/15/2022 10:38 | #281332
Good debut, but did we really need the 15 minute closer?

Bottom, Sober and Prison Sex are all awesome.
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100/100
From 02/01/2021 18:47 | #265521
One of the best metal debut albums ever. The whole album is so ferocious and anger-fueled
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From 12/31/2019 10:26 | #246172
Awesome record.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 02/22/2019 17:44 | #232378
Great debut album!
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Rating:  
85/100
From 12/20/2017 02:59 | #203594
Underrated. If this was the sound that Tool stuck with everyone would love it. It doesn't have the scope of later Tool albums, but it rocks hard while giving the listener a shot of intelligent lyrics every once in a while.
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From 01/11/2016 08:20 | #156279
A great debut album. "Intolerance" and "Sober" are among my favourite Tool songs. But in the grand scheme of things, this album was just the beginning for Tool.
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From 07/01/2015 01:30 | #144894
Sober was awesome
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