Tool

Formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, Tool is a rock band known for its complex and layered song structures, unique album art, intense live shows and song lyrics that can be obscure, profoundly spiritual and bitingly sardonic. The band's style and sound are utterly its own, sitting on the border between rock and metal. Tool has, at varying times, been said to play alternative rock, progressive metal, art rock, psychedelic rock and post-metal but, in truth, has shown an impressive ability to defy all precise genre classifications, experimenting heavily from album to album and song to song.