The sound of distorted tablas at the very beginning sounds a lot more like the sort of filler track that would appear midway through the album. At first listen, it's far from the most explosive kickstart to an album the album far from it, in fact. To say that Stinkfist possesses one of the most deceptive openings to a song would be an understatement. Personally I love all their individual characters,' recalls David, who would later produce and mix the band's Lateralus album and Salival EP. 'I was very impressed with their musicianship, compositional skill and strong work ethic. Tool was clearly going to be a very different proposition. He adds, 'Great riffs, singing and a powerful rhythm section.'īut until he was contacted by that band, David - who would go on to be a three-time Grammy Award-wining mixer and producer - had worked on albums by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, Toni Childs and King Crimson. 'They are great musicians and the songs are heavy, melodic and powerful,' he says and he's not wrong (give KLOGR's Silk and Thornsa listen and see for yourself).

October 2016 finds David in Italy, working with the Italian metal band KLOGR. I liked it, but as I hadn’t really worked on that kind of heavy music too much I thought that they may have confused me with someone else.'

'Frankly, I knew very little about the band,' David Bottrill, the producer of Ænima, tells me, 'They contacted me and sent me Undertow and Opiate. Cam de Leon's painting 'Smoke Box' formed the basis for the cover art of Tool's Ænima on CD and vinyl

Tool aenima album art