Due to overwhelming presale demand by fans who immediately snapped up tickets for their first headline show in New Zealand in five years, acclaimed US rockers TOOL are thrilled to announce a second night at Auckland’s Spark Arena has now been added to the band’s upcoming November tour. 

The GRAMMY-winning outfit will now play two nights back-to-back in Auckland, with a new show added today for Sunday 23 November. Presale tickets for the band’s previously announced performance on Saturday 22 November are officially exhausted, fans wasting no time securing their spot at the hugely anticipated return of the hard rock legends. 

Tickets to the new show (Sunday 23 November) will be available to Frontier Members and Tool Army members in the presale, starting Thursday 18 September (4pm NZST) – see website for details. 

General public tickets will go on sale for both shows at 12pm NZST (midday) this Monday 22nd September via www.frontiertouring.com/tool. 

TOOL have been loyal visitors to New Zealand shores since 1997. The band has undertaken various headline tours here plus additional stints on Big Day Out line ups, performances that have cemented the unwavering love from their Kiwi audience.  

With an impressive back catalogue of music that has predominantly topped the charts here, latest album release Fear Inoculum also debuted at #1 in New Zealand, the band’s third consecutive #1 in the country. Critics hailed it as a stunning triumph, Rolling Stone declaring it “a formal masterpiece” and Kerrang “absolutely gobsmacking”.  

TOOL’s last NZ performance at Spark Arena in 2020 was received by rave reviews: 

‘Fan’s already sky-high excitement levels went through the roof when they were treated to an unexpected rendition of Aenima, prompting the first mass singalong of the night in a collective prayer for rain and tidal waves”’– NZ Herald 

‘Undeniably this is one of TOOL’s most theatrical shows to date, the meticulous lighting and lasers providing an absolute visual feast upon which to dine from, prisms turning the shards of white light cast upon the ceiling into sparkling spectrums of colour’ – Ambient Light Blog 

TOOL have been back on the road in 2025, including performing their first ever set at Lollapalooza Argentina in March, joining the festival also in Chile and Brazil. In July, they also paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, joining the late rocker onstage at Black Sabbath’s final reunion show.  

General public tickets go on sale for both shows Monday 22 September (12pm NZST) via frontiertouring.com/tool.  

Don’t miss the multi-sensory, groundbreaking experience that is Tool, live in concert. Do not delay – tickets are already selling fast!