{"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:\/\/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 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"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"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tool.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}