Tool works toward new album (Updated April 10, 2013)

Dark underground metal was the basis for the kind of rock music that the industry came know from Tool. Well, that and the tortured angst that helped them take the industry by storm in 1993. That was when Tool landed a slot on the third Lollapalooza tour and never looked back. Their debut album, "Undertow," was just the beginning for this group of guys making music in a post-Nirvana world.

In 1996, America said goodbye to alt rock and Tool was the benefactor. With a primarily metal-oriented sound, their sophomore album "Ænima," moved them on to bigger and better things – namely, a co-headlining slot with Korn and a tour that carried them well into the next year. And this, of course, was when experimentation and artistic flair really found their way into Tool's music

The album "Lateralus" (2001) marked the beginning of the critical acclaim and commercial success Tool would begin to achieve. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, helped the band to a Grammy Award for which they famously thanked Satan in their acceptance speech, and continued to grow what would often be referred to as the band's insane and devoted cult following

You can't really say Tool has been on an extended hiatus, even though its last full-length release was "10,000 Days" in 1996. Sure, they've taken breaks, but they've never broken up. A 2009 summer tour kicked off about the same time they began working on a new album, and even though the process isn't yet complete… it's getting there.

In January 2013, the band stated it was "over half done" with the upcoming project, with conflicting opinions among Tool's members on whether it would actually be released this year.

About Tool

Founded in 1990, multiple Grammy Award winning Alt/Art/Heavy Metal Rock Band Tool has continued to delight its passionate fan base with a body of work that pounds out its raw yet refined and melodic messages of passionate individuality and positive integrity. Tools' complex but melodic musical structures and emotive lyrical content has at times bordered on controversial. Although controversy has trailed the band throughout its storied career, they remain true to their vision of elementally eruptive sound matched to a unique, artistically adventurous sensibility, one that is too often lost in the musical corporate jungle and drowned out by the bottom line. Get Tool tickets to watch the action live in concert.