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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Tool aren’t so much a rock band as – to paraphrase Winston Churchill – a mystery wrapped in an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Rob Verhorst/Redferns Tool were the band who shouldn’t have made it. Their logo was a ...

Tool is a band that is a bit hard to describe. They’re definitely an alternative metal band with progressive rock elements. However, their sound, lyricism, and concepts stray into the existential and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Tool is one of the most commercially successful hard rock/metal ...

Tool are in full tease mode, it seems. Maynard James Keenan said he hopes the album will be released by May or June. We're guessing it's not May, since we would have likely heard something by now. But ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Blossom Music Center will play host to a triple shot of alt-rock royalty on Sunday when Tool singer Maynard J. Keenan, his buddies in Primus, along with two of his side ...

In addition to its San Antonio performance, Puscifer will premiere two on-demand concert films on Friday, October 28. Credit: Travis Shinn If you’ve ever wanted a look inside Tool frontman Maynard ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio - Way back in 2014, Maynard James Keenan, best known as the lead singer of Tool, the combustible masters of complex rock, wanted to celebrate his 50th birthday with a big show ...

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is not a fan of cell phones at shows. This we already know. In 2018, he came under fire while touring with A Perfect Circle for enacting a strict “no cell phones” ...