TOOL – comprised of Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor, and Danny Carey – will be heading into the UK and Europe for the first time since May of last year (2022). The band are currently in the middle of a tour of North America, which ends in February next year.

The tour starts at the ZAG Arena in Hannover, Germany on May 25^th before continuing in Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome two days later. The band then heads into the United Kingdom for three shows, the first being at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on May 30^th and then heading to the AO Arena in Manchester on June 1^st. They then conclude the UK part of the tour with a show at London’s 02 Arena two days later, on June 3^rd.

TOOL then continue their tour on June 5^th with a show at the FR Accor Arena in Paris, France. They will then subsequently play shows in Berlin, Wien, Stockholm, Budapest and many more. The tour ends with a show at Oslo’s Tons of Rock Festival on June 27^th.

The bands last album was Fear Inoculum, released in 2019, with a massive 13-year gap between the album before that, 10,000 Days, released in 2006. The band blew up in 90’s with the single “Sober” in 1993 from the album, Undertow. The band later became renowned for albums Aenima in 1996 and Lateralus in 2001.

Bassist Justin Chancellor, spoke about how the band has been writing material for the next album, saying: “So we’ve got all the ingredients in place. We’ve just got to really bang it out and spend that time when we’re not touring”. When asked about any unreleased music, he said: “Tonnes from the last album. We have tonnes of ideas. But not recorded to the standard that we’d put on an album. Just kind of… lots of demoed stuff. And just tonnes of ideas that are just stored away.” Drummer Danny Carey, said “We have tons of material. It’s not going to take 12 years, or if it does, I’ll probably be so old I probably can’t pick up my sticks anymore! But my hope is we’ll do another record and just keep moving forward.”

Tickets for the show go on tour this Friday (November 17^th) and can be purchased here. Furthermore, tickets are available via presale for members of the bands fan club here.

The new album had initially been slated for a release in 2017, but faced severe delays. however Keenan has tweeted some detailed info on the new record’s recording process, revealing that guitarist Adam Jones (referred to in the tweet as AJ) was ‘deep’ into recording his guitars for the project.

Update- Scratch Vox tracked awhile ago. AJ deep in Guitars now. Final Vox after. Step back. Adjust. Mix. Adjust. Re-Adjust. Master. Adjust. Re-Adjust. Long Way 2 Go But Much Closer. #TOOL #2019

— Maynard J Keenan (@mjkeenan) September 10, 2018

Keenan’s tweet did seem cautious in regard to the album’s overall progress, but the tweet seemed to confirm that we can at last expect the project next year. This follows a previous update from the singer in February, suggesting that his “words & melodies” for the album were “100% done on all but 1″ of the album’s tracks.

Keenan has previously blamed the slow progress of the album on his bandmates’ indecisiveness. “I like to release records and write things a little more quickly than those guys like to write,” he said. “Their process is very analytical.” Keenan released new music with his other band A Perfect Circle earlier this year, titled Eat The Elephant, which garnered high praise among many.

In December 2017, Rage Against the Machine, Prophets of Rage, and former-Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello revealed that he had heard new music from the band. He shared an image of himself and the band on his Instagram page, writing “”Had the honour of being the first outsider to hear new #TOOL music today!!” describing what he had heard as “epic, majestic, symphonic, brutal, beautiful, tribal, mysterious, deep, sexy and VERY Tool.”