Tool: Lateralus (2LP, picture disc) [VOLCANO]

Why you'll love it

Lateralus debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 555,000 first-week sales, won a Grammy for "Schism" and is a prog-metal monument; this is the picture disc 2LP set.

This edition

• Picture disc
• Limited edition
• 2LP set

About the album

Tool built the title track's lyrics on the Fibonacci sequence, which tells you everything about the ambition here. Lateralus is a sprawling, hypnotic, mathematically precise record that somehow also sold 555,000 copies in its first week and went straight to No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Danny Carey's polyrhythms, Justin Chancellor's snaking bass, Adam Jones' crushing riffs and Maynard James Keenan's searching vocals all lock into place. "Schism" shifts time signatures like it's breathing and won the band a Grammy for Best Metal Performance, "Parabola" is pure catharsis, and "The Grudge" and "Lateralus" stretch out into epic, spiralling journeys.

It's triple platinum in the US and double platinum in Canada. Alex Grey's otherworldly art is printed right onto the records themselves, which is exactly how this album should be seen.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Volcano, a reissue of the 2001 album.