  Tool formed in 1990 with Danny
Carey on drums, Maynard James Keenan on
vocals, Adam Jones on guitar, and Paul
D'Amour on bass.
Tool released
the EP Opiate.
 Tool released Undertow.
Tool could be seen touring with Rage
Against The Machine, the Rollins
Band, and Fishbone
and appeared at Lollapalooza.
Undertow was certified gold.
 Undertow was certified
platinum.
Bassist Paul D'Amour left the
band over "creative differences."
Justin Chancellor joined Tool as
the bassist.
Opiate was certified gold.
 Tool released Aenima.
Aenima was certified gold.
Tool won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance (Aenima) and were nominated
for Best Music Video, Short
Form
("Stinkfist").
Aenima was certified 2x
platinum.
 Tool released the CD/DVD Salival.
VH1: 100
Greatest Artists of Hard Rock included Tool at # 88.
 Tool released Lateralus.
Lateralus topped the Billboard
200 LP chart and Top Internet Albums chart
with first week sales in the US topping
555,000 copies.
Undertow was certified 2x
platinum.
Lateralus was certified 2x
platinum.
 Tool won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance ("Schism").
 Aenima was certified 3x
platinum.
Lateralus was certified 2x
platinum.
Opiate was certified
platinum.
 Tool released 10,000
Days.
Tool topped the Billboard 200 LP
chart with 10,000
Days selling over 564,000 copies its
first week of release in the US.
10,000
Days was certified platinum.
Tool topped the Billboard Hot
Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with "The
Pot."
Tool were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance
("Vicarious").
 Tool were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("The Pot").
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Opiate (EP)
Released: March, 1992
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 59
Tracks: "Sweat"
- "Hush" - "Part Of
Me" - "Cold And Ugly"
(live) - "Jerk-off" (live) -
"Opiate" |
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Undertow
Released: April, 1993
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 19
Entertainment
Weekly: A-
Tracks:
"Intolerance" - "Prison
Sex" - "Sober" -
"Bottom" - "Crawl
Away" - "Swamp Song" -
"Undertow" - "4
Degrees" - "Flood" -
"Disgustipated" |
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Aenima
Released: October, 1996
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly: A-
Tracks:
"Stinkfist" -
"Eulogy" - "H." -
"Useful Idiot" - "Forty
Six And 2" - "Message To Harry
Manback" - "Hooker With A
Penis" - "intermission" -
"Jimmy" - "Die Eier Von
Satan" - "Pushit" -
"Cesaro Summability" -
"Aenema" - "(-) Ions"
- "Third Eye" |
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Salival (CD/DVD)
Released: December, 2000
Billboard
peak:
# 38
Rolling Stone: 
Tracks: "Third
Eye" (live) - "Part Of Me"
(live) - "Pushit" (live) -
"Message To Harry Manback II" -
"Merkaba" (live) - "You
Lied" (live) - "No
Quarter" - "Lame" |
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Lateralus
Released: May, 2001
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1
Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly: B-
Tracks: "The
Grudge" - "Eon Blue
Apocalypse" - "The
Patient" - "Mantra" -
"Schism" - "Parabol"
- "Parabola" - "Ticks
& Leeches" -
"Lateralis" -
"Disposition" -
"Reflection" -
"Triad" - "Faaip De
Oiad" |
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10,000 Days
Released: May, 2006
US: 2x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1
Rolling Stone:
Tracks:
"Vicarious" - "Jambi"
- "Wings For Marie (Pt 1)" -
"10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)" -
"The Pot" - "Lipan
Conjuring" - "Lost Keys (Blame
Hofmann)" - "Rosetta
Stoned" - "Intension" -
"Right In Two" - "Viginti
Tres" |
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Fear Inoculum
Released: August 30, 2019
US: Gold
Billboard
peak:
# 1
Grammy Winner: Best Metal Performance
Tracks: "Fear
Inoculum" - "Pneuma" -
"Litanie contre la Peur" -
"Invincible" - "Legion
Inoculant" - "Descending"
- "Culling Voices" -
"Chocolate Chip Trip" -
"7empest" -
"Mockingbeat" |
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