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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tool, then, returned to a radically altered music world in 2001; one in which the nu-metal of Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Papa Roach was ascendant. “I felt like we were a little lost at sea in ...

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 ...

Have you ever listened to Tool? Have you ever listened to Tool… on weed??? Have you ever listened to Tool played on a piano by one man… on weed??? This is pretty fucking incredible. The fact that ...

With Rage Against The Machine gone, Metallica losing its teeth, Nine Inch Nails spiraling toward irrelevance and rap-rock growing exponentially sillier, gloomy headbangers everywhere must be itching ...