TOOL Schallplatten & CDs

Review: American alt-rock masters Tool still hold a dear place in the hearts of fans who loved them the first time around. The unique band released several now classics albums - often with quite large gaps in between. This vast six-CD collection, amusingly titled Box (just don't try and google Tool - Box for any further info because, if you are anything like us, you will get distracted by the brilliant array of storage options you're presented with) collects plenty of their most standout tunes from all across their fulsome discography. A great one for collectors that brings everything together in one place.

Review: Fear Inoculum brought a 13-year Tool hiatus to an end in typically dramatic, knock-your-socks-off and blow wind through your hair style. A fine example of what the group have always done so well - running with wolves like Mogwai, only with far more metal sensibilities, and a damn-sight bigger helping of experimentalism, when this bad boy arrived in 2019 it shot straight to the top of the US Billboard 200, the third consecutive record from the group to do so.

Of course, those charts don't necessarily mean as much in this age as they did when the preceding Tool LP dropped, but 270,000 album-equivalent units within the first week do not lie. Nor does the quality of work here. From the avant-garde percussion and awkward synths of 'Chocolate Chip Trip', to the almost-ethereal ambience of 'Legion Inoculant' and the riff and crescendo heavy 'Pneuma', it's a wild thing of beauty.