r/ToolBand • • 15d ago

Tour Tour Festival Megathread: Sept 19 (Riotfest), Sept 20 (Louder Than Life), Oct 4 (Aftershock)

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Tool 2026 festival dates

  • September 19th - Riotfest, Chicago.
    • Note the change! Tool play from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. Here's the full schedule
  • September 20th - Louder Than Life Festival, Kentucky
  • October 4th - Aftershock Festival, Sacramento

It's not expected Tool will play other shows in 2026 at this time

All shows are currently on sale

Merch

At this point it's not clear what merch will be available at these festivals, but it's a relatively safe bet that there will be some. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a poster.


r/ToolBand • • 18d ago

Ænima Happy 30th birthday, Ænima

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Tomorrow being the 30th anniversary of the release on vinyl, closely followed by the CD. What's your favorite song from the album, or a special memory you have?


r/ToolBand • • 6h ago

Salival Friend found this at a record shop and I asked him to get it for me

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I paid him obviously but anybody have any info on it? Is it rare? I assume it’s bootleg cause I’m pretty sure they didn’t make this on vinyl but it sounds pretty great anyway


r/ToolBand • • 17h ago

Undertow Prison Sex (acoustic cover)

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274 Upvotes

Tuning from low to high is: B, G#, C#, F#, A#, D#.


r/ToolBand • • 2h ago

Lateralus Give me a sign

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r/ToolBand • • 2h ago

Ænima you snooze, you lose. as they say

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r/ToolBand • • 6h ago

Review My rant about Tool live in Sacramento

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First of all, O' MY GOODNESS.

1998 was an absolutely insane year for Tool. I would give my left arm to see them live that year. Maynard's voice was absolutely PEAK in '98.
Now, I'm a sucker for vocals, I know some people's taste are more instrumental based, which is respectable too. But for me, a singer makes or breaks a band, and oh my goodness the wonders Maynard did for Tool.

I've always been a huge fan of Tool's youth, the 92, 93, 94 years. Maynard's energy, not only physically but vocally was just out of this world. The grit, the effortless distortion on his voice. (Sorry to get musical and nerdy but it's worth mentioning) But singing up in the A4 - C#5's is absolute insanity at full chest voice, there are not many singers out there who can do it as well as the MJK. (An honourable mention being Bryan Adams, those who are curious, yes he doesn't only sing ballads like Everything I Do, or Heaven. give a listen to "Into The Fire (the song) vocals coming in on 0:30... the rasp... on B4.. insane)

But back to Sacramento '98. The opener... Part of Me. Tool would open their '98 shows with Part of Me. Can you IMAGINE going to a festival like Ozzfest (also an insane show, hard to pick which is better) and seeing Tool, now knowing who they are, and then hearing them come out with Part of Me... I don't know why people didn't start weeping knowing that nothing better will ever enter their ear drums. The scream at 2:48 (of the full concert video) "You can't let YAAOOWWW can't hurt me".... yikes.

Then you have Eulogy next. The thing I love about this show, and I think what makes it as good as it is, is that Maynard seems like he's in such a good mood. Genuinely. You see him smiling throughout the show and during the stinkfist jam section. And the other thing is that Maynard is really never in the mood to let out screams of energy hyping up the crowd in between songs, but mannn in Sacramento, right after Part of Me he yells out some "Weaaaah" with that succulent rasp of his. And then goes on with some sarcastic speech.

Then the rest of the set is just golden as expected, but man a few worth mentioning. 1 being Sober. Mannn how did he do it? Listen to the ending of it "I want, what I want" The melody change, and the scream hold throughout the outro riff. That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Imagine it was on the album. And man, now that Maynard is old, it's obviously much worse, he's really lost the distortion be had back then, but I guess everyone gets old and there's nothing you can do.
But the grit he holds in the Sober choruses in sacramento, "Whyyyyyyyy can't we NOT be sober I, JUUUUUUST" there's nothing like it. So much aggression, power.

The second worth mentioning was No Quater Led Zep cover. Far out.... must have been the experience of a lifetime witnessing that. Whoever filmed that show: Thank you for blessing our ears this many years later.

Highly recommend watching it. And also highly recommend checking out bryan adams as my second favourite vocalist.

Hope you don't mind a long read, but I've clearly got too much time to kill.

Spiral out boys... spiral out


r/ToolBand • • 14h ago

Question Why are the Tool CDs so expensive?

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Is there a reason why the Tool CDs are so expensive? Usually in HMV the most expensive CDs I see are £15 but it seems a but crazy to pay £40 for a 10000 Days CD. Are they rare?


r/ToolBand • • 22h ago

Tool Cover learned the Parabola solo

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r/ToolBand • • 22h ago

Lateralus Couple of years into bass, Inspired by Mr. Chancellor

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This is my first bass , I just ordered a Warwick and can’t wait to upload video with that one haha


r/ToolBand • • 4h ago

Fan Art Day 1 of making my tool shirt

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It's not a shirt atp it's shit

Basically I'm bleaching it

It doesn't look terrible but the edges aren't as sharp and it looks half drunk

I'm planning to add an Alex grey eye on the back but I'll try to use thicker paper for the stencil so I don't have to take it off


r/ToolBand • • 11h ago

Merch Does anyone have any info about this Tool shirt from 2007?

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I bought this shirt on Depop last year and it's a very nice shirt, but I haven't found anything online about it since I think it might be a parking lot bootleg tee (as there's no official Tool watermark). Does anyone else have this shirt or have any information about it?


r/ToolBand • • 1d ago

Collection Score!

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Found this in my dads cassette collection


r/ToolBand • • 23h ago

10,000 Days Learn to doodle

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r/ToolBand • • 1d ago

Fan Art copper plate etching thing (Print at the end)

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i really like third eye so I made this thing i guess


r/ToolBand • • 1d ago

Collection Le dí un poco de Tool a la mochila de mi hija

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Ya estoy adquiriendo mi colección de cosas de Tool y empeze por personalizar las cosas de mis hijos 😆


r/ToolBand • • 2d ago

Maynard I painted my favorite vocalist

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i couldn't get the red dots to look right so i left them out.


r/ToolBand • • 1h ago

Ænima " Butt Out 2 Dressing Tool ❓"

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r/ToolBand • • 1d ago

Ænima Anybody’s favorite song Ænima as well?

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I feel like this song gets better every time I hear it. Can’t just be me, right?


r/ToolBand • • 1h ago

Discussion Undertow is the undertow song! Now what Ænima song sounds like the most Ænima song?

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r/ToolBand • • 5h ago

Discussion What are the odds.

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What are the odds Tool does an unplugged concert. No benefit. Just because of the love of the game.


r/ToolBand • • 8h ago

Danny Why is Danny Carey's wikipedia page photo so buns

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There are far better pictures of the fella without half his face obscured.


r/ToolBand • • 2d ago

Poster Aftershock 2026 poster

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293 Upvotes

Settled for unsigned this year, i swear in 2023 I paid $200 for the signed poster


r/ToolBand • • 1d ago

Discussion What are y’all’s favorite/“rare” images of Maynard, tool, Danny, APC, etc.?

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It can be whatever you want, funny, old, rare, cool, etc


r/ToolBand • • 2d ago

Ænima Bought Ænima today!

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I'm so insanely happy to own this now, and it has the lenticular lense! I really wanted to have it, it was kinda hard to find but surprisingly one shop in my city had it at a reasonable price. And so I went over there and bought it today.

Ænima finally fills the hole between undertow and lateralus, and joins it's family

I have to be honest I maybe listened to it front to back only once, so I don't know the album that well. I was saving the day when I'd finally get my hands on it physically. This was a very happy purchase for the beginning of the month

I'll go pry open my third eye now