One does not simply listen to Tool. One plunges entirely into an immersive sonic experience that takes the listener through a thought-provoking spiral of complex musicianship and perplexing lyrical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...