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Lateralus

by Tool

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of 455,735

3,818
2000's

of 265,982

497
2001

of 35,059

59

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Overall Rating: 2.9960 Lateralus is ranked overall as 2.9960 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.9709 Lateralus has an avg. critic score of 2.9709 out of 4 stars

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Arguably the most eagerly awaited rock album of the year - certainly on American shores - Tool' s third album proper arrives, as one would expect, bound in cryptic packaging. Definitely no band shots allowed. ...more

Rolling Stone

You need time to deal withLateralus- a lot more than the seventy-seven minutes it takes just to play the whole disc. ...more

Rolling Stone

So much of Tool's third full-length studio album makes so little sense at first. But that is one of Lateralus' most endearing qualities: It rolls out its pleasures and coherence slowly, even stubbornly. ...more

All Music Guide

After an exhaustive five-year litigation battle between the band and their label management, Tool offer up the latest chapter in their musical self-discovery inLateralus. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Tool work at their own pace. Lateralus is only their third album of new material since 1993, and it reflects only the most modest shift in their big, lumbering thud & roll. ...more

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Wall of Sound

A 79-minute sonic sojourn of hard rock delivered with an arty, fusion-conscious sensibility rooted most obviously from the likes of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Jane's Addiction....read the complete review at Wall of Sound

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Blender

Lateralus sounds like Black Sabbath jamming with Genesis at the bottom of a coal...read the complete review at Blender

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Pitchfork

Now, with the early new century demanding "opuses," Tool follows suit. The problem is, Tool defines "opus" as taking their "defining element" (wanking sludge) and stretching it out to the maximum digital capacity of a compact disc....read the complete review at Pitchfork

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The A.V. Club

With only a pair of overblown albums to its name, Tool didn't appear prepared to weather the grunge recession. But somehow, the band's brand of metallic bombast outlasted its contemporaries' angst, and today hard-rock fans consider Tool a paragon of...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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