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“I can’t say what it will feel like…I’m wise enough to know I’ve got to hear this before judging”: How King Crimson offshoot BEAT moved from an all-star dream to reality

When Adrian Belew failed to persuade the 80s line-up to reunite, he had to come up with another way of bringing that decade’s three albums back to life – and he did it

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“He showed me chords, pinch harmonics, and was ceaselessly encouraging to me when I was a beginning guitarist”: Tom Morello reflects on his high school band with Adam Jones – and how the guitarist shaped him into the player he is today

Morello remembers how the Tool maestro helped kick-start his career by dragging him to gigs in a lengthy post that recalls the pair’s friendship

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"He showed me chords, pinch harmonics, drove us to see Judas Priest." Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello celebrates the fellow iconic metal guitarist he was in a high school band with

Tom Morello heaped praise and love on another guitar legend yesterday

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This impressive Black Friday deal might just inspire me to complete my home workshop toolkit

Rejoice! This 30% discount finally means no more 'no torque wrench' guilt

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“My dad called me a ‘rhythm bassist’, but all he taught me was a power chord and an AC/DC drum beat”: Wolfgang Van Halen on calling the shots in rock’s royal family

He isn’t just Eddie’s kid – Wolfgang Van Halen is a talented bass player with his own style

Guitar World

“It dishonors that brand to say, ‘Now we’re King Crimson.’ But we do have the ability to say, ‘Look, this is legitimate – half of the band is onstage here”: Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Tony Levin on how they made Beat – with Robert Fripp’s blessing

Performing material from King Crimson's trailblazing '80s oeuvre, Beat finds three kings of the strings with the peerless Danny Carey pushing the envelope and Steve Vai doing Robert Fripp proud

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“My friend talked to Joe Walsh and gave him my number. Awhile later, I got a message: ‘Adam Jones, this is the Talk Box fairy. Give me a call’”: Tool's Adam Jones on taking cues from Meshuggah, unorthodox pedals, and the trick he learned from Robert Fripp

On the eve of the release of 10,000 Days, Tool's tone titan sat down for a chat with GW about the reclusive quartet's creative process, “the Melvins school of writing music,” and why he absolutely, positively, did not use an E-Bow on the album

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Stop the presses! Maynard James Keenan has named his favourite tool

A burning question, finally answered

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Tim "Herb" Alexander abruptly quits Primus after he "lost his passion for playing"

US prog metallers Primus's live date in the Dominican Republic will go ahead with Tool's Danny Carey filling in on drums

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"2025 is shaping up nicely." Tool are hosting their own tropical getaway festival with Primus, Mastodon, Coheed And Cambria and more

Tool Live In The Sand will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from March 7 - 9 2025

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“We were surrounded by bands like Animals As Leaders, Meshuggah, Plini… and the crowd could clap in time over a 7/8 time signature, too!” From a virtuoso Tool support to Rabea Massaad’s new supergroup, meet the next generation of progressive guitar heroes

The UK’s ArcTanGent Festival is the world’s biggest celebration of heavy progressive music, and this year’s lineup featured epic sets from Meshuggah, Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky. Could these 5 bands be the headliners of the future?

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He’s a drop D master who fuses monstrous powerchords, haunting single-note melodies and off-kilter time signatures in one of prog-metal’s most technically ambitious bands – learn how Adam Jones forged his rhythmically audacious Tool riffing style

We unpack the rhythmically complex metal style of Tool’s polymath guitarist, improving your timing and legato in the process

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See Tool and BEAT drummer Danny Carey warming up behind his enormous kit

Tool drummer Danny Carey has his own interesting Youtube channel

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Tool’s Maynard James Keenan and wife Jennifer open new vinyl cafe, will start hosting concerts this month

The Keenans’ Queen B Vinyl cafe will host such artists as Thou, Galactic Empire and more from October 23

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“The festival lost so much money they asked us for our fee back!” How Rage Against The Machine's generosity helped Coachella recover from a potentially ruinous start to become the world's coolest music festival

Coachella might now be American social media influencers' festival of choice, but it owes a massive debt of gratitude to Rage Against The Machine, Tool and more for its existence

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Jack Black will induct Ozzy Osbourne into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame; Metallica, Tool and Red Hot Chili Peppers members to perform

The Prince Of Darkness will join the annals of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame on October 19

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“I felt like Ken Parker had taken 20 years to eliminate all the things that normally go wrong with a Fender or Gibson”: Adrian Belew on how he persuaded the famed luthier to create his mind-bending signature Parker Fly

Belew is using his signature Parker Fly as his go-to guitar on the 65-date Beat Tour with Steve Vai, Tool drummer Danny Carey, and King Crimson alumnus Tony Levin

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“Big thank you to Metallica for giving you that song. That doesn't happen very often”: 11-year-old metal guitarist nails Master of Puppets on America’s Got Talent – with Dave Mustaine’s signature model

Maya Neelakantan had previously covered Papa Roach's Last Resort on AGT and gone viral for her Tool covers

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“Were Black Sabbath heavy metal? They were? Then I guess we are too”: How Tool pushed back the boundaries of metal and prog with 10,000 Days

Mystery, secrecy and Arsenal FC – the world of prog metal heavyweights Tool is like no other

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Watch Tool bassist Justin Chancellor dress as Willy Wonka to prank support band onstage

Tool’s bassist mindf*cked Night Verses during the bands’ recent European tour

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“Maynard had this fifty-yard stare and I was in the target zone. I thought he was ready to jump off stage and have a ruckus”: how A Perfect Circle made the funniest and most provocative rock album of the 2010s with Eat The Elephant

Death stares, Axl Rose and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy are all part of the story of Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel’s A Perfect Circle

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7 new progressive metal albums that break all the genre’s rules

So many prog metal bands want to sound like Tool, Gojira or Meshuggah – but not these seven forward-thinkers

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Justin Chancellor's alt-metal side project MTVoid to Ukrainian black metallers They Came From Visions, German folk metal heroes Tvinna and hardcore mob Going Off, these are the bands you need to hear in July 2024

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“Listen to Romeo And Juliet by Prokofiev. It’s one of the heaviest pieces of music you’ll ever hear”: The magic and mystery – but not genius – of Muse’s first decade

With each of their first four albums Matt Bellamy and co injected more prog to their music, finding inspiration via classical composers, magic mushrooms and a Ouija board

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This easy listening version of Tool’s Sober is oddly excellent

Prog metal + a horn section = a winning combination, apparently

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