"Lateralus" BMG. When guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor and drummer Danny Carey are spearheading Tool's scorch and churn offense on "Lateralus," the lyrics sometimes get lost in the mix.

After a half-decade away, Tool returned to a rock scene consumed by nu-metal and pop-punk. Lateralus found them surging in the opposite direction… The Outward Spiral: How Lateralus galvanised ...

As one of the most groundbreaking and analytical pieces of progressive metal, Tool's magnum opus, 'Lateralus,' comes in at No. 1 on our list of the Top 50 Metal Songs of the 21st Century. Based on ...

Tool are clearly not a band afraid of their own gravitas. Name-dropped by nu-metallers, consistently cited as the most influential American group of the last ten years, they’re big, they’re ...