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Maynard James Keenan Tool tour 2024
Tool review - Resorts World Arena Birmingham May 30 2024

By Rich Hobson Published

Tool return to the UK for the second time this decade for a masterclass in mind-boggling imagery and prog instrumentals

Concerts & Shows
Drummer Mike Portnoy of Sons of Apollo performs at The Fillmore on January 26, 2020 in San Francisco, California.
Watch Mike Portnoy learning Tool's Pneuma – a drum track so complicated it "makes Dream Theater look like Weezer"

By Stef Lach Published

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy wrestled with learning Tool drummer Danny Carey's work on epic track Pneuma

Bands & Artists
Tool in 2023
Tool bassist talks new music: “There’s absolutely tons and tons of hard drives full of stuff”

By Matt Mills Published

Justin Chancellor has offered an update on the prog metal luminaries’ next album

Albums
Paul D'Amour on Ministry onstage in 2023
Ex-Tool bassist Paul D’Amour slams band’s songwriting process: “You don’t need to spend 10 years to make an album”

By Matt Mills Published

Tool’s former bassist has explained how the prog metal icons’ “frustrating” songwriting led to him leaving the band

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Tool 2024
We spent the day with Tool and, can we shock you? They're still weird as hell.

By Steve Appleford Published

Like the rest of us, Tool are hoping they can get it together enough to record another album before somebody dies

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Maynard James Keenan dressed as a baby in a crib
Maynard James Keenan's plans for the next 18 months? Wine, fried chicken and new songs for Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer

By Stef Lach Published

As Maynard James Keenan's epic 60th birthday celebrations roll on, he's planning new Tool, APC and Puscifer songs

Albums
Ou, Hawxx and Mountain Caller
Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool

By Dannii Leivers Published

Hawxx, Ou, Mountain Caller, Wheel and Every Hell are channelling current Metal Hammer cover stars Tool in a variety of weird and wonderful ways

Bands & Artists
Tool in 1993
“People said, ‘Oh, you’re a metal band’. I thought that was kind of lame”: the story of Tool’s Undertow, the debut album that introduced the world to a new kind of noise

By Stephen Hill Published

Tool’s debut album was released on April 6, 1993. This is the story behind it

Albums
Maynard and Henry
“It was just good to have that early on.” Tool's Maynard James Keenan reveals the essential advice punk rock legend Henry Rollins gave him at the start of his career

By Merlin Alderslade Published

Maynard James Keenan has kept this piece of advice in mind ever since

Bands & Artists
Danny Carey of Tool playing drums in 2016
“I bought it with lawnmowing money!” Tool’s Danny Carey reflects on the first album he ever paid for himself

By Matt Mills Published

Tool drummer Danny Carey has named the very first album he bought with his own money – and it was funded by him doing chores around the house

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