Tool will host its own destination festival in the Dominican Republic with the launch of Live in the Sand. Set for March 7th–9th, 2025 on the beaches of Punta Cana, the all-inclusive event will feature two nights of Tool plus performances by Primus, Mastodon, Coheed and Cambria, and more.
Also set to perform at the inaugural Tool Live in the Sand are Josh Homme’s Eagles of Death Metal, progressive metal pioneer King’s X, funk metal fusion band Fishbone, Finnish prog-metal up-and-comers Wheel, the Jackass-anointed CKY, and indie-rocker Moon Walker, with special guest visual artists Alex Grey and Allyson Grey. Tool will perform two unique shows on Friday, March 7th and Saturday, March 8th.
Packages go on sale Wednesday, October 30th at 10 a.m. PT here, with payment plans available for as low as 10% down. Fans can choose between accommodations at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino or Royalton resorts, separated by a short walk down Punta Cana’s famed white-sand beaches. Packages include a luxury resort room, unlimited food and drinks for each guest, and three days of music.
In addition to the musical lineup, guests will be able to participate in a variety of off-site excursions. Fans can glide down the Caribbean’s longest zipline, have a snorkeling encounter with nurse sharks and stingrays at Marinarium Marin Park, take a Catamaran voyage, and experience an array of immersive adventures at Scape Eco-Park.
With Tool in the Sand, the landmark progressive metal band will join the growing number of acts with curated luxury destination festivals. In January, Phish will return to Cancún, Mexico for its eighth-annual Riviera Maya getaway while the Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir readies for his second Dead Ahead Festival on the same beach. Other destination events both international and domestic include Widespread Panic’s Panic en la Playa, My Morning Jacket’s One Big Holiday, Brandi Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend, Goose’s new Viva El Gonzo, and plenty more artists cashing in on older fans with disposable income and a penchant for tropical getaways.
Following Tool Live in the Sand, the band will stay south for a one-off show in Mexico City on March 15th, followed by the band’s first-ever South American tour dates. The group will headline major Latin American festivals including Lollapalooza in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, as well as Festival Estereo Picnic in Colombia. Find tickets and tour dates on Tool’s website.
Earlier this year, Tool drummer Danny Carey said the band intended to record new music in the “second half of the year.” The group—comprised of Carey, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, and bassist Justin Chancellor—does not have any tour dates until March, which could support Carey’s claim, if only he wasn’t playing almost every night with King Crimson tribute BEAT through mid-December. In a recent interview with Allison Hagendorf, Keenan bemoaned Carey’s marathon 65-date tour schedule impeding the creation of new Tool music.
“He talks a lot,” Keenan said of Carey. “He’s on tour now with the BEAT tour, with Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, and, you know, it’s an amazing, amazing lineup. It’s really impressive. But he’s out there. So, if he’s out there, [he and my other Tool bandmates are] not in [the studio], and I can’t do what I need to do till they get in there and do the thing.”
Hagendorf followed up about the band’s famously laborious recording process, which resulted in a 13-year gap between Tool’s two most recent releases, 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum.
“I’m able to organize my day and get things done,” he said. “I make it—it’s about making it a priority. That nothing else is more important than finishing this thought, finishing this thing, getting to the end of it. If you put anything in front of that, it’s not going to get done. So, put everything aside. Anything besides your kids and your wife are not a priority, and you just get it done. That’s how I look at it.”
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