Rock Music News: TOOL Announces 2023 North American Tour (2024)

June 6, 2023, LOS ANGELES – TOOL return to the road this Fall, expanding on their recently announced festival appearances (Power Trip, Aftershock and Louder Than Life) with an additional six weeks of performances, including the band’s first Canadian dates since 2019.

The tour announcement follows TOOL’s debut live performances of 2023, headlining both Welcome to Rockville and the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in recent weeks.

Tickets for all non-festival shows are on-sale this Friday, June 9 at 10 am local time. In advance of the forthcoming on-sale, TOOL Army has opened additional memberships, with pre-sale tickets available exclusively to members on June 8 at 10 am local time. A limited number of VIP packages will also be initially available to TOOL Army members, with remaining options, including premium tickets, soundcheck access, exclusive merchandise and more, available to the general public as the on-sale begins on June 9.

TOOL tour dates:

• September 22 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life Festival
• October 3 Loveland, CO Budweiser Event Center
• October 6 Sacramento, CA Aftershock Festival
• October 8 Indio, CA Power Trip
• October 10 Salt Lake City, UT Delta Center
• October 12 Idaho Falls, ID Mountain America Center
• October 14 Nampa, ID Ford Idaho Center
• October 15 Spokane, WA Spokane Arena
• October 17 Eugene, OR Matthew Knight Center
• October 19 Portland, OR Moda Center
• October 20 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
• October 22 Kelowna, BC Prospera Place Arena
• October 23 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
• October 25 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
• October 27 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome
• October 29 Winnipeg, MB Canada Life Center
• October 31 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
• November 1 Milwaukee, WI Fiserv Forum
• November 3 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boiling Arena
• November 4 Charleston, WV Charleston Coliseum
• November 6 Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena
• November 7 Allentown, PA PPL Center
• November 10 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
• November 13 Manchester, NH SNHU Arena
• November 15 Boston, MA TD Garden
• November 16 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
• November 19 Montreal, QC Bell Center
• November 20 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena
• November 21 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena

Since the 2019 release of TOOL’s critically-acclaimed album, Fear Inoculum, the band has won a GRAMMY Award® (Best Metal Performance for “7empest”), completed sold-out tours of both the U.S. and Europe, and headlined Bonnaroo, Welcome to Rockville and the Sonic Temple Arts & Music Festival. TOOL marked the 30th anniversary of the Opiate EP with the 2022 release of “Opiate,” a re-imagining of the EP’s title track, released in tandem with a breathtaking, 10-minute short film crafted by Adam Jones and visual artist Dominic Hailstone (“Alien: Covenant”, “The Eel”).

Reviews from TOOL’s sold-out 2022 tours praised the four-piece, with Loudwire dubbing the performances as “a masterclass of immersion, sound and stage design, musicianship… and levels of ungodly tightness.” The Austin Chronicle described the incomparable live experience as an “unbridled exchange of catharsis between performers and fans.” More recently, Revolver, covering Welcome to Rockville 2023, said “TOOL delivered a stunning… set featuring classic fan favorites, newer Fear Inoculum standouts and choice deeper cuts … the striking visuals also included a psychedelic laser and projections show bar none.”