Lateralus

Album · Released 15 May 2001

Lateralus

Lateralus turns a repeating figure into a moving landscape. Tool can stay with a riff for a long time while changing what the drums, bass and voice make it mean. The album's complexity is easiest to appreciate through that physical movement: the music keeps shifting beneath a recognisable shape. The Grudge establishes a severe opening mood. The band move between different levels of force with exact timing, and Maynard James Keenan's voice becomes…