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From King Crimson to A-list hired gun with Talking Heads, Frank Zappa and David Bowie, Adrian Belew created his own language on the guitar – here are his 10 greatest guitar moments

With King Crimson, Talking Heads, as a solo artist, it didn't matter: Adrian Belew manipulated the guitar like no-one else, bending sound into new shapes

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“I needed to destroy”: Watch video footage of the first-ever Tool concert in 1991

On October 7, 1991, Tool played their primal debut gig, and so began three decades of prog metal trailblazing

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Gibson has filmed an Adam Jones Tool guitar lesson – and it's exceptionally good

A great dissection of a special guitarist's techniques

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"We threw everything away at one point": Justin Chancellor talks new Tool material, fashion and why MTVoid aren't a supergroup

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor explains how MTVoid differ from Tool, how long until we get another album and why he isn't worried about Swifties

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"The difference is huge": Tool's Justin Chancellor explains why he has no intention of going wireless – or using five-string basses

"We've done a lot of experimenting with wireless packs"

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“This guitar gives you a piece of me. In fact, I just used one of the Epiphones to do some recording, and I’ve played them onstage, too”: Adam Jones discusses the evolution – and future – of his signature 1979 Les Paul Custom

Adam Jones’ collaboration with Gibson and Epiphone brought together the Tool guitarist’s two loves, music and art, with a line of stunning Aged Silverburst LPs. Will we see more in the future? Jones sure hopes so

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"Everyone was going mad about Oasis, but I preferred Blur": Jack Osbourne picks the soundtrack to his life

These are the albums and bands that have shaped Jack Osbourne's tastes

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"Does the music sound like Tool? Does it sound like Opeth? All these speculations are cool." How Soen introduced themsleves with Cognitive

Ex-Opeth drummer Martin Lopez is back with eagerly awaited new band Soen. Singer Joel Ekelöf explains about their “intricate rhythms” and the influence of a Latin singing Catholic monk…

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“One of my top favorite guitars of all time”: Epiphone debuts the Adam Jones 1979 Les Paul Custom – and it's got a Gibson-style headstock

The Tool man’s signature model follows the Kirk Hammett Greeny Les Paul in featuring an ‘open book’ style headstock, plus a classy Custom Shop-tier neck pickup

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"Danny Carey is 62 now, so there's no thought of taking 13 years for another album": Justin Chancellor offers promising update on new Tool album

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor suggests the band may hit the studio in "the second half" of 2024

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Tool's Maynard James Keenan is releasing a live album, and it has the worst cover art we’ve seen in a very, very long time

Recordings of Tool/Puscifer/A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan's 50th birthday concerts are coming next month, packaged with artwork that cannot be unseen

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10 metal bands with obscenely long gaps between albums

Guns N' Roses and Tool can take a back seat: here are some metal bands who took literal generations to produce follow-ups to their early albums

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10 metal bands’ first-ever concerts caught on film

Want to see Ghost, Rage Against The Machine and Spiritbox’s first times on a stage? These clips have got you covered!

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Watch Tool play Undertow track Flood for the first time in 13 years

The progressive metal mavericks played the deep cut days after drummer Danny Carey called revisiting Undertow’s musical style “appealing”

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The 50 greatest metal EPs of all time

From the early days of Def Leppard and Iron Maiden to modern classics via the likes of Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the best metal EPs in history

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Addiction, Jurassic Park and a one-sided Nirvana feud: The story of Tool’s Sober

Tool’s cerebral single earned chart success and launched a career of prog metal trailblazing – despite its video being slammed by Kurt Cobain

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20 metal bands with no bad albums

From Tool to Cave In and Mastodon, these metal masters all boast spotless back-catalogues

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"It’s the biggest heavy metal party in the world." Metallica, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Guns N' Roses and Tool, plus insane ticket prices, 40° heat and, er, lobster dinners. Inside the brilliance and the absurdity of Power Trip festival 2023

We headed out to Power Trip in October for a first-hand look at the biggest heavy metal festival ever assembled

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10 massive metal bands we want new albums from in 2024

From Ozzy Osbourne to Tool, a host of metal legends look ready to make 2024 a star-studded year

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“Blending themes of pop culture with techniques of the old masters”: Epiphone quite literally tops off the Adam Jones Les Paul Custom Art Collection with Mark Ryden’s Queen Bee – the only guitar in the series to use front-facing artwork

The Tool guitarist’s limited edition series has created a buzz – and we’re sad to see it go

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The 10 longest songs by 10 iconic heavy metal bands

Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slipknot have all extended their excellence well beyond the 10-minute mark

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“His playing speaks to my soul like no other guitarist”: Alex Lifeson joins Adam Jones onstage to help Tool perform Jambi – before gifting his hero one of his signature Epiphone Les Pauls

Having previously spoken about his affection for Jones' guitar playing, Lifeson joined Tool onstage to tackle the rhythmic riff rollercoaster – with some added Rush flair for good measure

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Watch Alex Lifeson join Tool on stage in Toronto

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson jams with US prog metallers Tool on A Passage To Bangkok and Jambi

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“An out-of-this-world limited-edition Flying V”: Gibson’s latest Adam Jones signature guitar is here – and it’s a $20k Murphy Lab recreation of the Tool titan’s prized Flying V with a Futura-style headstock

Staying true to the guitarist's penchant for heavy instruments, the meticulously assembled limited-edition Custom Shop model arrives after Jones debuted a V designed with help from Kirk Hammett, Richie Faulkner and Jim Root in 2022

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Take a tour of Tool drummer Danny Carey’s Sonor kit

Danny’s drum tech, Joe Slaby, shows us around

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