With only a pair of overblown albums to its name, Tool didn't appear prepared to weather the grunge recession. But somehow, the band's brand of metallic bombast outlasted its contemporaries' angst, ...

Tool’s first album in five years is no great surprise--neither a lesser version of the old Tool model nor a massive step forward. Its ambition lies in recapturing and refining the band’s fanatical ...

When guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor and drummer Danny Carey are spearheading Tool's scorch and churn offense on "Lateralus," the lyrics sometimes get lost in the mix. Lost but not ...

It has been five years since the last release by dark-rock kings TOOL. In that time singer Maynard James Keenan recorded the platinum album “Mer de Noms” and toured the world with his side project A ...

One of these days we’ll get a member of Tool to sit down in front of their phone for MetalSucks‘ patented series of musicians watching YouTube fan covers of their own songs. That day is not today. If ...

Tool scored the fourth highest debut of the year with their third album, Lateralus, which sold 555,222 copies in its first week, according to SoundScan. The band’s first Number One album caps a ...

The silver cord that has tentatively linked all Tool albums (including Lateralus, their latest aural enigma) is an underlying longing for release and reunion with some version of divinity. Here, ...

Lateralus: New TooL CD.. ARS' thoughts: aahz May 21, 2001 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...