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 expected, Tool's third Volcano studio album, "Lateralus," debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 this week, leading a charge of five top-10 debuts on the chart, while Janet Jackson's seven-week… By ...

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, ...

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 ...

In one of the first big release weeks of the year, "Lateralus" the new Volcano effort from hard rock outfit Tool, is establishing itself as the clear front-runner, with a strong chance to top The… By ...

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 ...

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 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 so influential to us rock and metal fans that it's easy to forget the band can be an acquired taste for some. For example, on the new WTF With Marc Maron, comedian Marc Maron laid out why he ...

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 ...