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| Lateralus
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| Album by Tool
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| Released
| May 15, 2001
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| Recorded
| 2000- 2001
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| Genre
| Alternative, Heavy Metal
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| Length
| 79 min 3 sec
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| Record label
| Zoo Records
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| Producer
| David Bottrill , Tool
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| Professional reviews
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| Q
| 4 stars out of 5
| December 2001
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| Allmusic.com
| 4 stars out of 5
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| Rolling Stone
| 4 stars out of 5
| June 7, 2001 (pp. 109-110)
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| SpinSpin is a music magazine. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. it is the main competitor to industry stalwart Rolling Stone. Guccione sold the magazine to Vibe magazine in 1997. External link .
| Favorable
| January 2002 (p. 77)
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| Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly is a magazine published by Time Warner in the United States which is dedicated to the world of celebrity and popular culture. The first edition was published during 1990, and the magazine's weekly circulation averaged 1. 7m copies per
| Grade: B-
| May 25, 2001 (pp. 76-77)
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| Alternative PressAlternative Press is a music magazine focusing on goth and punk music. In the words of the magazine: "Since its debut as a photocopied fanzine handed out at a punk show in 1985, A. has been the publication where the honest word, the correct word, the auth
| 7 out of 10
| July 2001 (p. 57)
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| CMJ
| Favorable
| June 4, 2001 (p. 15)
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| NMEThe New Musical Express (better known as the NME is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop
| 7 out of 10
| June 2, 2001 (p. 38)
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| Tool Chronology
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Ænimanima was an album released by Tool on October 1 1996. It contains a dedication (of sorts) to the late comedian Bill Hicks, proclaiming him "Another Dead Hero"; the final track, the thirteen minute epic "Third Eye", uses a few samples of Hicks' sketches in
( 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan)
| SalivalIn 2000 (see 2000 in music), Tool released the Salival box set in CD/ VHS and CD/ DVD formats. The song "You Lied" is a cover of a Peach song. Peach was bass player Justin Chancellor's previous band. The band's cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" was rec
( 2000)
| Lateralus
( 2001)
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In 2001 (see 2001 in music), Tool released their third studio album, Lateralus. The album was a commercial success, reaching the #1 position on the Billboard charts in its premiere week. Two music videos were released: "Schism" (the video had a short ambient track, "Mantra", at the beginning) and "Parabol/Parabola". Both videos were done in a visceral gothic rock style that Tool uses in all of their artwork.
The album reached the #1 spot on Billboard Music Chart's top Internet Albums chart, top Canadian Albums chart and the Billboard 200 chart (US).
As of August 5, 2003, Lateralus has been certified double platinum by the RIAA.
Stylistically, Lateralus is a defiantly progressive album, having emerged from a five year legal tussle with Tool's former label. In spite of its unusual and complex content, the album still became a commercial success in the United States quite apart from the mid- to late- 1990s explosion of nu-metal bands like Linkin Park.
