Bands like Tool don't come along every day. In fact, if you were a UK fan after 2007, the band didn't particularly come round at all, the band not visiting this side of the Atlantic for 12 years, playing their first show back at the 2019 Download Festival. Since then, we've had a new album and this marks their second full headline tour since 2019's Fear Inoculum. But does familiarity truly breed contempt?
Of course it doesn't. Almost 20 years since they made the leap from alt metal agitators to cosmic prog metal masters, Tool are a reliably potent and otherworldly force live. Notices put up around Birmingham's Resorts World Arena state a by-now common rule: no cell phones, no cameras, no exceptions.
