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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rock ‘n’ roll reclaimed the album charts this week, as math-metal powerhouse Tool led a parade of new releases dominating the rankings, including works by Weezer and R.E.M. As foreshadowed by ...

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 ...

At their first of two nights at the Madison Square Garden, Tool not only played an Undertow song for the first time since 2011, they also did something they've never done before. The band's winter ...

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 ...

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 ...