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EXPLAINED: Tool | Vintage Vibes

From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever

For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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“I was in my boxers and my mother caught me in this heightened creative moment. It was pretty embarrassing”: Inspired by Tool, Led Zeppelin and classic sci-fi, Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into Welcome Home

Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, the 2005 single became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment

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One mad lad has spent the past 3 years remixing hundreds of classic metal songs in the Doom midi soundfont

Hell yeah dude.

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“It felt new and exciting. You don't even have to have gain on the distortion pedal. The vibrations alone make it sound distorted”: How tuning down and jamming Eagles and Skynyrd unlocked the return of Swedish doom heroes Monolord

Neverending finds the venerable Gothenburg trio expand their sound under the supervision of Tool producer Sylvia Massy, adding light and shade to those riffs – and more guitars

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“This guy kept calling saying, ‘I’ve never been in a band before, but I’m the best guitarist ever.’ When I heard him play it was like a fire from heaven”: The life and times of Killing Joke visionary Geordie Walker – the guitar hero’s guitar hero

He influenced Kurt Cobain, Metallica, Tool, Nine Inch Nails and counted Jimmy Page as a fan. We pay tribute to a true guitar original

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“I hope they get sued. It’s a shameless ripoff. They should be slapped on the wrist for that.” How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen - with their classic song Sober

Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan

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“We pulled out chainsaws and tore our guitars apart. I had a shotgun with blanks in it, and I was shooting it inside the Palladium”: Inside the chaotic birth of prog metal provocateurs Tool

They’ve sold millions of albums, won four Grammys and inspired legions of copycats, but this is where the legend of Tool kicked off

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“You can’t make music in a test tube and do math. There has to be spontaneity with a little planning and a lot of mistakes”: How Tool created enigmatic, brain-bursting alternative rock with a late-’90s masterpiece

“Very seldom are we playing in unison”

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A divisive setlist, mind-bending visuals and bass lines so heavy they literally blow up: Tool's Sonic Temple headline set was peak Tool, and we wouldn't have it any other way

Tool's first show of 2026 wasn't a classic crowd-pleaser, but those who lasted the distance were treated to something special

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Primus recruit Puddles Pity Party for cover of Dio's Holy Diver on new EP A Handful Of Nuggs

Listen to new Primus EP which includes cover of Dio's Holy Diver and features appearances from Puddles Pity Party and Tool's Maynard James Keenan

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“By luck or design, we found a different way to say something, and people listened”: How unlikely prog metal newcomers Karnivool made the last great nu metal debut

Nu metal was considered dead by 2005 – but a ragtag band from Australia ensured that the genre would bow out in a blaze of glory

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“We were supposed to open that place”: Adam Jones reveals that Tool were meant to raise the curtain on the Sphere in 2023

Instead, U2 took their place

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“Billy said, ‘I've never played a high-gain amp that I like.’ It was a tall order”: How a Smashing Pumpkins superfan made the only amp Billy Corgan has ever truly loved

Brian Carstens spent 30 years obsessing over Corgan’s guitar tone. Then he ended up making amps for his hero – not to mention John Fogerty, Tool and Misha Mansoor

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"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed

Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance

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"If there’s one thing that we hate, it’s being compared to Korn or Tool. We’re far better than that.” The mystery of the 90s band that almost gave the UK an answer to Limp Bizkit - then vanished without a trace

Pulkas were beloved in the UK metal press and signed to one of underground metal's most illustrious labels - so what happened?

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"He went off at the deep end with drugs and I was just beside myself with frustration and depression.” Paramore, Deftones and Tool love them. This album broke them. The story of Failure's Fantastic Planet

Failure tackled substance abuse and bad luck to make a perfect alt-rock album, only to split up a year later

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"We’re here for you, Randy. Might be time for a beer or three." Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan offers support to the US Army's top general ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Maynard James Keenan and General Randy George were West Point Prep classmates in the early 80s

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"There are a lot of people who don't seem interested or even notice that the world's on fire." Puscifer's Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round discuss soundtracking the end times

Why we all need to put down our phone and pick up a glass of gin

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"If you’re trying to have followers and make them think like you do, you’re just building a cult." How Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer explore comedy and tragedy

When the world gets dark, Puscifer get weird and their new album Normal Isn't is as weird as it gets

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“The Mega channel has played a major role in heavy guitar tones since the early ’90s”: How the Diezel VH4 conquered metal, won fans in Metallica, Tool and Muse – and impressed John Fogerty too

Launched in ’92, the almighty four-channel beast completed a banner year for the high-gain tube amp

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"She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life

Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist salutes a folk-rock icon

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My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit and Pierce The Veil to headline Aftershock festival 2026; The Offspring, Queens Of The Stone Age, Babymetal and more than 130 other acts also confirmed

The Sacramento festival will return to Discovery Park from October 1 to 4

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Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, Tool, Babymetal, Alice Cooper, Halestorm and almost 200 more bands to play huge Louder Than Life 2026 lineup

One of America's biggest rock and metal festivals has unveiled its full lineup for 2026

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Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Evanescence and more: The 50 metal albums coming in 2026 that you should be excited about

Digging deep on announcements, rumours and pure speculation to find the 50 metal albums you should be keeping an eye out for in 2026

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Tool hope to release a new album and put on a residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere in 2027: “I think we’re the perfect band for that”

Drummer Danny Carey says the prog metal band have been “talking to” the owners of the Vegas venue

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