Five years felt like an absurdly long wait for Tool fans at the turn of the Millennium. Opiate, Undertow and Ænima had arrived, quick-fire, within the space of four and a half years. Held up by legal ...

There are three types of people in this world: those who like Tool, those who don’t like Tool, and those who probably like Tool a little too much. Twenty years ago this month, Maynard James Keenan, ...

Tool's chart-topping, multi-platinum third album Lateralus is largely considered one of the biggest and best metal albums of ...

Tool’s Lateralus isn’t just a song—it’s a mathematical and spiritual journey. This video explores how the band incorporated the Fibonacci sequence into the song’s lyrics, rhythm, and structure, ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...