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 ...

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, ...

Pick up Tool and Tool-related vinyl in the BV shop. Tool’s music was of course still readily available before this via, you know, all the ways you obtained music before like 2015, but it’s still a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Tool fan created a guide for ringing in the New Year with the band's most iconic moments so you can jump on the viral countdown trend. This fan shares this post on the Tool Reddit page every ...

I just entered the newest Tool CD in my music database (catraxx) and when it downloaded the track info from CDDB, the comment field had this in it:<P>The first two million pressings of this album have ...

For a while, it seemed almost silly to think a new Tool album would actually happen. The band talked about one, and played some new stuff live, but for years they continued to keep the talk very vague ...

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

This story originally appeared in the June 2001 issue of Spin. As Tool readies their first album in 13 years, we’re republishing it here. Sometimes, singing songs about choking infants, swallowing ...