04 LATERALUS TOOL

(2001)

The four members of Tool may look back on the recording process for their third album as a turbulent time for the band, as famously referenced by singer Maynard James Keenan in the lyrics to lead single Schism. But what they managed to piece together was an unimpeachable masterpiece. Lateralus is a magnum opus of seemingly infinite layers, in which the band fused their alternative rock roots with more metallic and progressive influences and shifting time signatures – all of this in ways that no one had ever done before. Guitarist Adam Jones dialled in those monstrous tones by feeding his Les Paul Custom Silverburst through his Blueface Diezel VH4, 1976 Marshall Super Bass and Mesa/boogie Dual Rectifier heads.