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Features, Tours and Festivals

Tool Announces Spring Tour Dates For 2020

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The Press Release:
TOOL, who recently took home the GRAMMY Award® for Best Metal Performance for the song “7empest,” has added an extensive Spring tour for North America.

The tour news arrives as the Los Angeles-based band wraps up a sold out Australasian tour, with the final two shows of the trek, back-to-back sold out performances at Auckland’s Spark Arena, happening later this week. The Sydney Morning Herald described the live offering as “an immersive art-rock experience that forced you to feel a little of everything. It was an intricate collage of light, sound and imagery.” The Fear Inoculum tour, which has seen the band performing in some cities for the first time in over a decade, has received widespread accolades with the Los Angeles Times calling it “impeccable,” the Chicago Tribune describing the performances as a “twisting multimedia rollercoaster of a concert” and The Arizona Republic describing the shows as “a visually breathtaking night of dystopian art-rock spectacle.”
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Presenting The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards Winners For Rock & Metal

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Hello again my friends, I have returned once again to discuss the always popular topic of the Grammy Awards and the winners of the “Rock” and “Metal” categories that have already been delivered at a pre-broadcast ceremony. As always, I have left the nominees in for comparison sake so do please check it out down below. I guess we Rockers should be thankful that we don’t have to wait around through endless speeches and can instead make some evening plans with our friends.

Best Rock Performance:
Bones UK – Pretty Waste
WINNER – Gary Clark Jr. – This Land
Brittany Howard – History Repeats
Karen O & Danger Mouse – Woman
Rival Sons – Too Bad

Best Metal Performance:
Candlemass – Astorolus – The Great Octopus [ft. Tony Iommi]
Death Angel – Humanicide
I Prevail – Bow Down
Killswitch Engage – Unleashed
WINNER – Tool – 7empest
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Tool Extends North American Tour

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Clearly 2019 has been a bountiful year for the band Tool who have not only released new music after a number of years but also have achieved some chart-topping status with the works. To keep up on the stuff we’ve been alerting you to (since there has been quite a bit of news), just click HERE to open a brand-new tab with the lot of it. Now we’re learning about an extension of the bands tour so read on.

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The Press Release:
TOOL, who are in the midst of their first North American tour in support of their #1 charting, record-breaking album Fear Inoculum (RCA Records), today announces an additional round of tour dates, kicking off on Jan. 10 in San Diego.

Newly Announced Dates:
January 10: San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
January 12: San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
January 15: Fresno, CA @ Save Mart Center
January 17: Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
January 18: Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
January 21: Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
January 22: Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Arena
January 28: Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
January 29: Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
January 31: Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum
February 1: New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center

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Tool by Travis Shinn

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Tool’s “Fear Inoculum” Reaches #1 on Active Rock Chart 

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It seems like everyone is talking Tool nowadays and I’ve discussed their back catalog being made available to streaming (seen HERE), helped announce their national tour (HERE) and that the song achieved some high numbers on the Billboard Charts (HERE). Now its time to watch the continuing dominance of “Fear Inoculum”. Take a look.

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The Press Release:
“Fear Inoculum,” the title track from Tool’s recently released album, has reached #1 on the Active Rock radio chart, giving the band its fourth career #1 radio single as well as the outfit’s first chart topper in 13 years.

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Tool kicked off their North American tour on Sunday night, performing at the Sacramento-based Aftershock Festival, where the Los Angeles-based band performed “Fear Inoculum” for the first time. The sold out trek continues tomorrow night in Denver, as the band plays two shows at the Pepsi Center.
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Tool Claims #1 Spot On Billboard Top 200 w “Fear Inoculum”

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The Press Release:
TOOL celebrates their third consecutive #1 debut on Billboard’s Top 200, with Fear Inoculum (RCA Records) reigning over the U.S. sales charts, selling 270,000 units.

The news of Fear Inoculum’s impressive debut comes amidst news stories of the album release being met by lengthy lines at retailers as music lovers clamored to get a copy of the limited edition, physical version of the CD. The spectacular, groundbreaking packaging boasts a 4” HD rechargeable screen with exclusive video footage, charging cable, 2 watt speaker, a 36-page booklet and a digital download card. The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) released a rare statement, describing the event-like album release: “Several stores had well-attended midnight sales on Thursday (it was my store’s first midnight sale in 10 years). When we returned to work on Friday morning, there were lines at the door… the TOOL release was the biggest thing to hit retail in years.”

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The success wasn’t isolated to the U.S., with the album debuting at #1 in Australia, Norway, New Zealand, and Belgium, as well as Top 5 debuts in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Italy and Finland.
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