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“This new album is as powerful as any of my work to date.” Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy announces Silver Shade, his first solo album in 11 years, featuring collaborations with Trent Reznor, Tool's Justin Chancellor and Boy George

Listen to new Peter Murphy single The Artroom Wonder, featuring Justin Chancellor from Tool

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“If you hated Tool fans, this is what you would do...”: Tool fans fire up a class-action lawsuit after the band played some songs twice

Their Tool In The Sand festival was to have been a crowning glory. Instead their setlist sparked fan fury, social media fallout and now, a growing legal threat

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“It’s amazing that we made it 25 years with the four of us”: Bill Kelliher opens up on Brent Hinds’ surprise Mastodon departure

News of Hinds’ shock exit was shared just days before the band’s set at the Tool in the Sand festival

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Lawyer considers class action lawsuit as Tool fans express anger over setlist choices for Dominican Republic two-night event

Fans were promised two "unique" sets for Tool In The Sand event – but some were unhappy when the band repeated 4 songs

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"If you hated Tool fans, this is what you would do": Tool booed by their own fans at their own festival

The band didn’t play two completely ‘unique’ sets, it seems, and the diehards weren't happy

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“I would say he’s underrated in the echelons of guitar. Honestly, there’s no-one close”: Steve Vai reveals what it’s like to work side by side with fellow Frank Zappa alum Adrian Belew on the BEAT tour

The two virtuosos have been flexing their distinct styles on the ongoing BEAT tour – which celebrates King Crimson's '80s repertoire – alongside bassist Tony Levin and Tool drummer Danny Carey

Guitar World

Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert

Why are Black Sabbath coming back? Who else is on the bill? Can I still get tickets? We answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza

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“Jesus, that was hard! But I got it. I welcome the challenges”: Guitar hero Steve Vai reveals the difficulties of playing King Crimson music - and how he gets by with a little help from Robert Fripp

“I’m a fan and want to play the exact notes,” Vai says

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Tool, Guns N' Roses and Rival Sons added to Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning final show line-up

New bands have been added to Black Sabbath's all-day festival in July

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Guns N’ Roses and Tool added to Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s final show at Villa Park

The event will be hosted by actor Jason Momoa

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“You wouldn't have thought that you would see those three guys together”: Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's final show will play host to a Tool, Rage Against the Machine and Smashing Pumpkins supergroup

The July 5 mega-event's lineup is stacked with top-tier names, including Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira and Alice in Chains

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“Tom Morello is going to play with the drummer from Tool and they’re going to have Billy Corgan with them”: Sharon Osbourne spills details on running order for Black Sabbath’s farewell show

“You’re going to see one icon playing with another icon, doing a Sabbath song and one or two of their own songs, and people playing with each other that you never thought you’d see”

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Tool’s Danny Carey just invented an exercise bike with a built-in drum workout

You’d think that being the drummer for Tool would be exercise enough…

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"The last Tool record ... sounded like spa music." Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta gives brutally honest appraisal of prog metal giants' Fear Inoculum

Tool's Fear Inoculum won praise from just about everyone –but Hatebreed singer Jasta was not a fan

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From the post-hardcore squall of Hidden Mothers to Lutharo's invigorating mix of power metal and melodeath, to one-woman black metaller Hulder and Saudi Arabian tech-prog-metallers Ana.n7n, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2025

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Halestorm's Lzzy Hale dumped guy for falling asleep at Tool concert

Lzzy Hale was left fuming after a date dozed off during a Tool concert.

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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale once dumped a guy for falling asleep during a Tool show

Harsh but understandable

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“Chris Squire was super fun. I love it when musicians retain their childlike qualities; that’s where music comes from”: Tal Wilkenfeld’s prog connections include David Gilmour, Todd Rundgren and Trevor Rabin

Inspired by Tool, the Australian bassist got her big break from Jeff Beck and went on to play with Prince, The Who and Brian Wilson – and her solo work is equally impressive

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“An original icon built by the same artisans who built them 30 years ago”: Mesa/Boogie is reviving the Dual Rectifier – the hallowed amp head that defined the sound of 1990s high gain music

The original Dual Rectifier arrived in 1992, and was championed by a huge array of guitar greats, from Foo Fighters to Tool and Korn

Louder

25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and we're feeling good - and here's 25 reasons why

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“I could be listening to Abba one minute and then Morbid Angel. It doesn’t seem strange to me”: How Porcupine Tree reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century metal generation

Porcupine Tree’s 2010 album The Incident capped their rise from cult psychedelicists to prog metal giants

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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

Guitar World

“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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