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 ...

As one of the most groundbreaking and analytical pieces of progressive metal, Tool's magnum opus, 'Lateralus,' comes in at No. 1 on our list of the Top 50 Metal Songs of the 21st Century. Based on the ...

This is the original Kerrang! review of Lateralus from 2001. The most surprising thing is that it isn’t actually surprising after all. Lateralus, Tool’s third full-length album and the follow-up to ...

It’s an album that continues to captivate and confuse fans the world over. Two decades on from its release, Kerrang! and Tool bassist Justin Chancellor search for answers to the enigma that is ...

Tool fans, prepare to be impressed. One of the band's signature tracks, 'Lateralus,' which we recently named the greatest metal song of the 21st century, has been covered acoustically by musician ...

Tool’s Lateralus isn’t just a song—it’s a mathematical and spiritual journey. This video explores how the band incorporated ...

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 are clearly not a band afraid of their own gravitas. Name-dropped by nu-metallers, consistently cited as the most influential American group of the last ten years, they’re big, they’re quite ...