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 ...

May 15 was the 13th anniversary of Tool’s Lateralus, and in a retrospective last week in The AV Club, writer Jason Heller explained that it arrived at a weird time, this number-one album and the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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