Editing Lateralus (section)

== Release and reception ==
{{Music ratings
| MC = 75/100<ref name=metacritic>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/lateralus|title=Reviews for Lateralus by Tool|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=April 24, 2012}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AMG Lateralus review">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lateralus-mw0000002072 |title=Lateralus – Tool|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=April 28, 2006|last=Theakston|first=Rob}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = B−<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Browne|first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |date=May 25, 2001 |title=Lateralus |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,256457,00.html |access-date=April 24, 2012|archive-date=December 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228054811/http://ew.com/article/2001/05/25/lateralus-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=Kerrang!>{{cite journal |title=The Future Starts Here|journal=[[Kerrang!]] |date=May 9, 2001 |last=Everley|first=Dave|page=44}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Appleford |first=Steve |date=May 14, 2001 |title=With 'Lateralus,' Tool Reclaims the Good Old Excessive Sound|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-14-ca-63179-story.html |access-date=February 24, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217165610/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/14/entertainment/ca-63179 |archive-date=December 17, 2012}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5Score = 7/10<ref name=NME>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/tool/5142|title=Tool: Lateralus |journal=[[NME]]|date=May 31, 2001|access-date=October 9, 2012 |last=Capper|first=Andy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204623/http://www.nme.com/reviews/tool/5142 |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6Score = 1.9/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/|title=Tool: Lateralus|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=May 15, 2001|access-date=April 28, 2012|last=DiCrescenzo|first=Brent}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Tool: Lateralus|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|issue=179|date=August 2001|page=141}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Fricke">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/lateralus-20010514 |title=Lateralus|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=May 14, 2001|access-date=February 19, 2008 |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[USA Today]]''
| rev9Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news|title=They're just the right Tool for the thinking headbangers|work=[[USA Today]]|date=May 15, 2001|last=Gundersen|first=Edna|author-link=Edna Gundersen}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10Score = C<ref name=Christgau>{{cite news|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ts-01.php|title=Turkey Shoot 2001|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=November 27, 2001|access-date=February 24, 2018|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
}}

Overall, ''Lateralus'' was met with generally favorable reviews by mainstream music critics upon its initial release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 75, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 15 reviews.<ref name=metacritic/> Many of their responses mentioned the album's ambition and ability to confound listeners, such as ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'''s Ryan Rayhil's summarization of it as a "monolithic puzzlebox".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rayhil |first=Ryan |title=The Spin Top 40 (Only Bands that Matter) |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date=April 2002 |page=77}}</ref> Rob Theakston reviewed the record for [[AllMusic]], where he claimed that "''Lateralus'' demands close listening from the first piece onward, as it becomes quickly apparent that this is not going to be an album one can listen to and accept at face value. Complex rhythm changes, haunting vocals, and an onslaught of changes in dynamics make this an album other so-called metal groups could learn from."<ref name="AMG Lateralus review"/>

Terry Bezer praised ''Lateralus'' in a review for ''[[Drowned in Sound]]'' by comparing it to the band's previous album, ''[[Ænima]]'', calling it "a more focused and cunning record than its predecessors that in many ways puts everything the band have formerly produced into perspective."<ref name="Drowned in Sound">{{cite web |last=Bezer |first=Terry |date=May 14, 2001 |title=Album Review: Tool - Lateralus |work=[[Drowned in Sound]] |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2573/reviews/1071|access-date=August 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050229/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2573/reviews/1071}}</ref> [[David Fricke]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' also measured the album up to earlier works from the band's oeuvre; "Tool have everything it takes to beat you senseless; they proved it on 1993's ''[[Undertow (Tool album)|Undertow]]'' and their 1996 Grammy-winning beast, ''Ænima''. Here, Tool go to extravagant lengths to drown you in sensation."<ref name="Fricke"/> In a review for ''[[Kerrang!]]'', Dave Everly claimed "It's the most perfectly played, perfectly produced record you're likely to hear this or any other year" and that it was "one of the greatest albums you'll hear in your lifetime."<ref name=Kerrang!/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/then-and-now-does-tools-back-catalogue-hold-up/|title=Then And Now: Does Tool's Back Catalogue Hold Up?|work=[[Kerrang!]]|date=August 2, 2019|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> Writing for ''[[NME]]'', Andy Capper also approved of it; "''Lateralus'' has added a little more colour to their palette of chanting, drumming and high drama. Singer Maynard James Keenan has been unaffected by the comparative tunefulness of his side project [[A Perfect Circle]], while the stripped-down nature of the instrumentation means that Tool's innate heaviness shines out in a world of production tricks and dodges. There's no trickery—Tool's progressiveness is all their own work."<ref name=NME/>

By contrast, in a review for ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', Brent DiCrescenzo claimed that, "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."<ref name="pitchfork"/> In the ''[[Village Voice]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] lambasted the album, calling it "meaning-mongering for the fantasy fiction set."<ref name=Christgau/> The review published in ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' described the album as sounding like "[[Black Sabbath]] jamming with [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] at the bottom of a coal shaft."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Tool: Lateralus|journal=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|date=July 2001|page=115}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/lateralus/tool/critic-reviews?dist=neutral|title=Mixed Critic Reviews for Lateralus by Tool|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref>

=== Commercial performance ===
The album was a commercial success in the United States, debuting at No. 1 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] albums chart with over 555,200 copies sold in its first week of release.<ref name=":0" /> On August 5, 2003, the album was certified [[RIAA certification|double platinum]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]. On April 30, 2010, the album was certified gold by the [[British Phonographic Industry|BPI]] for sales of 100,000 in the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]]<ref name="BPI"/> In addition, ''Lateralus'' was certified double platinum by the [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] and [[Music Canada|MC]].<ref name="ARIA"/><ref name="MC"/>

=== Accolades ===
Tool received the 2002 [[Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance]] for the song "[[Schism (song)|Schism]]".<ref name=GRAMMY_Awards/> During the band's acceptance speech, drummer [[Danny Carey]] stated that he would like to thank his parents "for putting up with [him]", and bassist [[Justin Chancellor]] concluded, "I want to thank my dad for doing my mom."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1452651/02272002/u2.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103033025/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1452651/02272002/u2.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 3, 2006|title=Alicia Keys Takes Five, 'O Brother' Gets Most At 44th Grammy Awards |work=MTV News|publisher=MTV.com|access-date=August 7, 2006|year=2002|first=Joe|last=D'Angelo}}</ref>

''[[Kludge (magazine)|Kludge]]'' ranked ''Lateralus'' at {{Numero|2}} on their list of top 10 albums of 2001.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Perez |first1=Arturo |title=Top 10 Albums of 2001 |url=http://www.kludgemagazine.com/articles.php?id=88 |website=[[Kludge (magazine)|Kludge]] |access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20040722004951/http://www.kludgemagazine.com/articles.php?id=88|archive-date=July 22, 2004}}</ref> ''[[Kerrang!]]'' placed the album at {{Numero|1}} on their 2001 "Albums Of The Year" list.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html |title=Kerrang! End Of Year Lists |website=Rocklist.net |access-date=January 21, 2019 |archive-date=May 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526185407/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' listed ''Lateralus'' as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Best 50 Albums of 2001 |magazine=Q |date=December 2001 |pages=60–65}}</ref>

The album continued to gain accolades in the years following its release. In 2016, Loudwire named Lateralus the {{Numero|1}} hard rock/metal album of the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/top-100-hard-rock-metal-albums-21st-century/#photogallery-1=101|title=Top 100 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 21st Century|website=Loudwire|access-date=June 2, 2016}}</ref> The magazine also ranked it {{Numero|6}} on their "Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums of All Time."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/top-progressive-metal-albums-all-time/ |title=Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums of All Time|last=Hill|first=John|date=August 2, 2017|website=[[Loudwire]]|access-date=June 22, 2019}}</ref> The album was ranked at {{Numero|32}} on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s ''50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time'' list.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/tool-lateralus-2001-20150617 |title=50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=June 17, 2015|access-date=August 31, 2015}}</ref> ''Louder Sound'' placed the album at {{Numero|33}} on their ''Top 100 Prog Albums of All Time'' list.<ref name="teamrock prog">{{cite web |last1=Henstra|first1=Jeroen|title=The 100 Greatest Prog Albums Of All Time: 40-21|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-08-06/the-100-greatest-prog-albums-of-all-time-40-21|website=[[TeamRock]]|date=August 6, 2014|access-date=2018-02-11}}</ref>

Publications have also continued to praise the performances by the band members on the album. NutSie.com ranked the drumming performance by Danny Carey on the song "Ticks & Leeches" at {{Numero|3}} on their list of Top 100 Rock Drum Performances.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 100 Rock Drum Performances |url=http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/Top%20100%20Rock%20Drum%20Performances/1774967 |publisher=www.nuTsie.com |access-date=August 9, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912223119/http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/Top%20100%20Rock%20Drum%20Performances/1774967 |archive-date=September 12, 2012}}</ref>

=== Special editions ===
A vinyl edition and two DVD singles from the album were released later. The "double [[Phonograph record|vinyl]] four-picture disc" edition of ''Lateralus'' was first released as a limited autographed edition exclusively available to fan club members and publicly released on August 23, 2005. Two [[music video]]s were produced; one for "Schism" (with the short [[ambient music|ambient]] segue "Mantra" at the beginning) and one for "Parabol/[[Parabola (song)|Parabola]]". These were subsequently released as two separate [[Music video#Video single|DVD singles]] on December 20, 2005, featuring remixes of the tracks by [[Lustmord]].