So sayeth some rebellious rule-breaker who endeavored to whip out their cell phone while Tool performed the Undertow cut “Swamp Song” on the night of November 18 in Philadelphia — the first time the ...

Let me begin with an impossibly pretentious assumption: Tool are a philosophy, one grounded in rhetoric informed by a rejection of what philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to as the “joint-stock ...

When Tool released Opiate in 1992, few could guess the band would achieve cult status through songs celebrating spirituality, sacred geometry, gallows humor and an unbridled disgust for humanity.