Listen, we're well aware that Tool's fanbase are one of the most dedicated in the world. They know the albums front to back, the band's history top to bottom and even all there is to know about the ...

The transformation of an enigmatic heavy rock band into prog metal deities If you google "music" and "spirituality", you'll see endless suggestions of pages, featuring soft clouds and pastel coloured ...

But you can’t make music in a test tube and do math. There has to be spontaneity with a little planning and a lot of mistakes ...

Happy anniversary to Tool's Aenima album! "Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim…" On Oct. 1, 1996 (Sept. 17 on vinyl), Tool unleashed one of their career-defining albums, Ænima, ...

Maynard James Keenan once described his band's name in practical terms. Something akin to a ‘wrench’ ‘shovel’ or ‘match’, amongst other things, and implored fans to use their music as means to inform ...

Primus recently recruited Tool‘s Danny Carey to fill in for their drummer, Tim “Herb” Alexander – who is still recovering from open-heart surgery in July – and they welcomed him into the fold by ...

How Tool created a late-’90s masterpiece ...

Tool have always blurred the lines between challenging their audience and outright fucking with it. This was seldom more apparent than on 1996's Ænima, released on vinyl 20 years ago tomorrow and two ...

Rock giants Primus, Tool’s Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor, and Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen have released a live video of Tool’s iconic song “Ænima.” The performance was shot at an ...

How many bands are out there with the subversive intelligence, unwavering nerve and sheer unhinged chutzpah to open their ‘difficult second album’ straight-faced with a song about anal fisting? Reckon ...

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 ...