"I don’t think that we were ever a metal band." Tool has been called progressive metal for just about as long as they've been around, though drummer Danny Carey doesn't think that labelling is apt. In ...

It’s said that you can never step into the same stream twice: you are necessarily changed each time you do so, as is the ...

The four members of progressive metal band Tool, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan in particular, are practitioners of the lost art of rock mystique. They do not overshare, and do not want fans to, ...

In terms of its sound, Tool doesn’t write and perform black metal; it sits within the broader, comparatively more commercial subgenre of progressive metal. Think long, suite-like songs powered by ...

In one sense, Tool is incomparable. It is the darkest and most cerebral of the mainstream metal bands to emerge from the ’90s music scene (those of a certain age can still see the stop-motion video ...

Tool is making their way to more cities in 2020. The alternative metal band announced that they'll be extending their "Fear Inoculum" tour Monday. The Grammy Award winners, who recently took home the ...

The unwitting objectivity of the Billboard music charts sometimes allows for strange bedfellows. Through no fault of their own, the West Coast thinking person's metal band Tool is currently competing ...

The progressive metal band Tool is headed back out on the road in 2022 for a tour that includes a stop in New Orleans. Tool is slated to headline the Smoothie King Center on Feb. 5 for a concert ...

Tool has released just one EP and five full albums in the 30 years since its recorded debut in 1992. The one the band is just now touring, 2019’s “Fear Inoculum,” took 13 years to finish. For a metal ...