Tool are the focus of a new Revolver cover story which includes a lot about the band’s recent performance at Power Trip, the 3-day 2023 Goldenvoice festival on the site of Coachella that featured sets by Judas Priest, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica & Tool. For Tool, it was not their first time playing the location – they co-headlined the second day of the very first Coachella in 1999 with Rage Against the Machine. Bassist Justin Chancellor told Revolver, “That was a pretty heavy, heavy deal for me. It gave us a lot of confidence to be able to be in that position in a big festival next to that kind of company.”
More from Revolver:
Memories of playing the first Coachella in the desert remain vivid for all of them. “I remember it just being incredibly hot,” Carey says with a laugh. “It was one of the biggest crowds we had played for at that point in our band’s history. So that was a big deal. It was a great vibe out there in the desert.”
Like the artists onstage, fans new to Indio faced the elements. “They had to water ’em down like cattle,” he recalls.
Chancellor is just happy when an outdoor gig isn’t cold. “It never seems to be a problem in Indio,” he says. “It’s that nice warm air and it just feels very relaxing on your body. It’s an easier environment to play in, for sure, physically.”
Tool played Coachella again in 2006, and Maynard’s other bands A Perfect Circle and Puscifer both have played, as well.
Tool also talked to Revolver about a new album, which will be the follow-up to 2019’s Fear Inoculum, which was their first album in 13 years:
TOOL is hopeful that writing for their next recording project will accelerate this summer. The band has begun jamming out some new material in the same Hollywood space where they’ve gathered for 34 years.
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They are flirting with the idea of releasing an EP rather than a full album, putting 30 minutes of music into the world sooner than later, rather than Fear Inoculum‘s long-delayed 90. Each one of them have contributed musical ideas, and Carey says, “it’s going well so far.”
“We’re free agents now,” he adds. “We aren’t signed to a label anymore. We are free to do whatever we want.”
Read Revolver‘s piece in full here.
Tool’s North American tour with Elder begins on Wednesday (1/10) in Baltimore, stopping in NYC for shows at Madison Square Garden on January 12 and 13. See all dates below.
Puscifer and A Perfect Circle will also be out on tour with Primus in the spring, including an NYC show at Forest Hills Stadium on May 4.
Pick up Tool and Puscifer vinyl in the BV store.
TOOL: 2024 TOUR DATES
01/10 Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena #
01/12 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden #
01/13 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden #
01/18 Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood #
01/19 Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood #
01/21 Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center #
01/23 Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena #
01/24 Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena #
01/26 Birmingham, AL – The Legacy Arena at The BJCC #
01/27 Biloxi, MS – Mississippi Coast Coliseum #
01/30 Corpus Christi, TX – American Bank Center #
01/31 Austin, TX – Moody Center #
02/02 Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center #
02/03 Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center #
02/05 Denver, CO – Ball Arena #
02/07 El Paso, TX – UTEP Don Haskins Center #
02/09 Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center #
02/12 Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center #
02/14 Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena #
02/15 Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena #
02/17 Ontario, CA – Toyota Arena #
02/18 Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena #
05/25 Hannover, GER – ZAG Arena
05/27 Amsterdam, NET – Ziggo Dome
05/30 Birmingham, UK – Resorts World Arena
06/01 Manchester, UK – AO Arena
06/03 London, UK – The O2 Arena
06/05 Paris, FRA – Accor Arena
06/08 Berlin, GER – Parkbühne Wuhlheide
06/10 Wien, AUT – Wiener Stadthalle
06/11 Kraków, POL – Tauron Arena
06/13 Budapest, HUN – BudapestAréna
06/18 Köln, GER – Lanxess Arena
06/20 Dessel, BEL – Graspop Metal Meeting
06/22 Copenhagen, DEN – CopenHell
06/25 Stockholm, SWE – Tele2 Arena
06/27 Oslo, NOR – Tons of Rock
# with Elder
