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 ...

Tool's chart-topping, multi-platinum third album Lateralus is largely considered one of the biggest and best metal albums of the 21st century — but that didn't stop a Pitchfork celebrity guest ...

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’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 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 ...

Like Nine Inch Nails before it, Tool has had plenty of time to ponder the musical direction of its next studio album. So much time, in fact, that the group was able to release a DVD collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...