"This is a really odd meter they are starting with. This is complicated" - vocal coach Ken Lavigne said in reaction to 'Pneuma' by Tool, watching it for the first time. Coach was watching and reacting mostly to drummer Danny Carey whom he called "a wizard around all these cauldrons... brewing potion”. At the highpoint of the song he stopped and said "I'm new to Tool...and I feel like I have wasted my life", , whereas actually, he should be happy about living in a time when there's so much great music, including Tool, who are great again.

Rage Against the Machine have postponed the first leg of their upcoming reunion tour (March 26 - May 20) due to concerns over the coronavirus; they plan to start playing May 23rd. Billie Eilish has postponed her March US dates - the postponement arrives after Live Nation and AEG, two of the world’s biggest concert promoters, decided to halt all large-scale tours until April due to the pandemic. Canadian Juno Awards have cancelled all 2020 programming. After New York State has banned gatherings of 500 people or more due to the coronavirus pandemic, some NYC venues are temporarily closing their doors, and postponing events. JamFest in Atlanta on April 5, with Taylor Swift headlining, has been cancelled. All events related to this year's LA Pride have been postponed, although it takes place in three months from now, in June. Also, there's American bands having trouble going home from the EU since the US have posed travel restrictions. But, not everything has been cancelled - Kendrick Lamar has been added as Glastonbury headliner, Tool still plan to play the US this March (just one show cancelled so far), mewithoutYou have just announced their farewell tour...

"When I stopped drinking it felt like I’d been away and come back. It felt intense after I stopped drinking. It felt like I had been away and I don’t know what had been there in between but it wasn’t altogether me. I think alcoholism is possession, like spiritual possession" - Jaz Coleman, the Killing […]

Ticketholders for Tool’s recent Cleveland, OH show received a pre-show email warning them against taking pictures with their phones - "Please watch and listen to the show, not your phone. You will be ejected... if you violate this simple request". But, there's a catch - the band gave the okay for security to stand down […]

Tool first album in 13 years, 'Fear Inoculum', debuts at No. 1 with the biggest week for any rock album in over one year. The band’s fifth album sold 270,000 equivalent album units, and of that sum, 248,000 were in album sales. 'Fear Inoculum' was only sold in two formats - a digital download and a […]

Critics don't use the word "exciting" describing Tool's new album, for a reason, and, in general, it comes down to 'Fear Inoculum' being just really good music. So: "This is the most intricate and densely-layered album Tool have yet made" - Kerrang; "a languid and blissful work – one that will richly reward future listens" […]

"The band’s most substantial and multidimensional offering to date... More of a career-encompassing opus than just the next album in their discography" - Metal Injection said, after hearing the album once. "A winding path through sounds mysterious and confrontational, uplifting and filled with darkness. Its 85 minutes unfurl like a brutal symphony in 7/4 time, […]

Tool have released the first song from their new album 'Fear Inoculum', their first studio material in 13 years, the Kerrang reports. The title track is similar in mood to 'Reflection' from 2001 album 'Lateralus' (listen below). In Revolver magazine interview the band discusses getting older and wiser - "It's making those choices that are […]

Tool have added their four albums and one EP to streaming services, on Friday (August 2), after years of holding out, with all five entering the iTunes Top 10, while various songs cracked the iTunes Top 10 Songs chart. On the first day at iTunes album 'Ænima' landed at No. 2 on the iTunes Top Albums […]

Justin Bieber likes Tool, Tool don't like Bieber liking them, so DJ Cummerband stepped in to make amends. He made a mashup of Tool's 'Parabola' and Bieber's 'Love Yourself' into 'Love Your Parabola' with (mostly) their music and (mostly) his vocals, with a little help from Ludacris. It's a different song now, but it works […]

Maynard James Keenan of Tool is an upcoming guest on AXS TV’s series Rock and Roll Road Trip, hosted by former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar. In a pre-release clip from the episode, Hagar asks Maynard about how he comes up with the rhythms and time signatures in Tool songs (“6/8, or 6, 7/9 or […]

Tool performed 'Descending' and 'Invincible' - 9 and 6 minutes long - over the weekend at Florida festival Welcome to Rockville. The songs are most probably taken from Tool’s long-awaited new album, first since 2006’s '10,000 Days'. Band's frontman Maynard James Keenan previously said the as-yet-untitled album should arrive "between mid May and Mid July". […]

Tool have posted a video on their Facebook page that features new instrumental music. It comes ahead of brief six-city tour guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey, and bass player Justin Chancellor will embark on. In February, frontman Maynard James Keenan said this about new album: “Words & Melodies 100% DONE on all but 1. Someday we’ll […]