✦Their music gets the influence from King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rush.
✦Is known to often avoid press and rarely permit interviews.
✦Most of their songs are recorded in a long-duration.
✦The band's members are not only good in playing musical instrument but also in writing lyrics.
✦Its name, Tool, though has some versions about its origin, actually means that the band served its fans as a tool through which those people would come to understand lachrymology, a belief that crying is the best emotional release.