TOOL
VENUE THE O2, LONDON
DATE 09/05/2022
The brooding intro to the title track of Tool’s most recent album, 2019’s Fear Inoculum, builds slowly as the sense of anticipation within the O2 rises apace. Not many bands would opt to kick-start their return to a London stage for the first time in some 15 years with a 10-minute slow burner of a prog rock song, at the same time performing behind a circular mesh curtain that covers the front of the stage. But then again, most bands aren’t Tool.