{"id":119242,"date":"2023-06-06T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=119242"},"modified":"2023-06-06T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:56:28","slug":"tool-is-coming-to-ppl-center-november-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=119242","title":{"rendered":"TOOL is coming to PPL Center November 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TOOL ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PPL CENTER \u2013 ALLENTOWN, PA NOVEMBER 7, 2023<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TICKETS ON-SALE THIS FRIDAY AT 10 AM AT <u>PPLCENTER.COM<\/u><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 6, 2023, LOS ANGELES \u2013 TOOL return to the road this Fall, expanding on their recently announced festival appearances (Power Trip, Aftershock and Louder Than Life) with a six- week, North American tour that includes a stop at PPL Center in Allentown, PA, on November 7.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on-sale this Friday, June 9 at 10 am. Pre-sale tickets are available exclusively via TOOL\u2019s fan club, <a href=\"https:\/\/toolband.com\/tool-army\/\">TOOL Army<\/a>, beginning on June 8 at 10 am. A limited number of VIP<\/p>\n<p>packages, including premium tickets, soundcheck access, exclusive merchandise and more, will be offered to TOOL Army members simultaneously, with remaining options available to the general public as the on-sale begins on June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2019 release of the TOOL\u2019s critically-acclaimed album, <a href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/TOOLFIa\"><em>Fear Inoculum<\/em><\/a>, the band has won a GRAMMY Award\u00ae (Best Metal Performance for \u201c7empest\u201d), completed sold-out tours of both the U.S. and Europe, and headlined Bonnaroo, Welcome to Rockville and the Sonic Temple Arts &amp; Music Festival. TOOL marked the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the <em>Opiate <\/em>EP with the 2022 release of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tool.lnk.to\/Opiate2\">Opiate<sup>2<\/sup><\/a>,\u201d a re-imagining of the EP\u2019s title track, released in tandem with a breathtaking 10-minute short film crafted by Adam Jones and visual artist Dominic Hailstone (\u201cAlien: Covenant\u201d, \u201cThe Eel\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Reviews from TOOL\u2019s sold-out 2022 tours praised the four-piece, with <em>Loudwire <\/em>dubbing the performances as \u201ca masterclass of immersion, sound and stage design, musicianship\u2026 and levels of ungodly tightness.\u201d The <em>Austin Chronicle <\/em>described the incomparable live experience as an \u201cunbridled exchange of catharsis between performers and fans.\u201d <em>Revolver<\/em>, covering the Welcome to Rockville 2023, said \u201cTOOL delivered a stunning\u2026 set featuring classic fan favorites, newer <em>Fear Inoculum <\/em>standouts and choice deeper cuts \u2026 the striking visuals also included a psychedelic laser and projections show bar none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TOOL formed in 1990, releasing five studio albums: <em>Undertow <\/em>(1993), <em>\u00c6nima <\/em>(1996), <em>Lateralus <\/em>(2001),<em>10,000 Days <\/em>(2006), and <em>Fear Inoculum <\/em>(2019); two EPs: <em>72826 <\/em>(1991) and <em>Opiate <\/em>(1992), and the limited-edition boxset <em>Salival <\/em>(2000). The band has won four GRAMMY Awards\u00ae: Best Metal Performance (1998, \u201c\u00c6nima\u201d), Best Metal Performance (2002, \u201cSchism\u201d), Best Recording Package (2007, <em>10,000 Days<\/em>) and Best Metal Performance (2020, \u201c7empest\u201d). TOOL is Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass), Adam Jones (guitar) and Maynard James Keenan (vocals).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nPhantoms Marketing<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOOL ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR\u00a0 PPL CENTER \u2013 ALLENTOWN, PA NOVEMBER 7, 2023\u00a0 TICKETS ON-SALE THIS FRIDAY AT 10 AM AT PPLCENTER.COM\u00a0 June 6, 2023, LOS ANGELES \u2013 TOOL return &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=119242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TOOL is coming to PPL Center November 7th<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tool.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}