Tool will play Pinnacle Bank Arena on May 16.
The Lincoln show is one of 10 concerts the band has announced for May. Tool is expected to release its fourth album, its first in 13 years, in the next few months.
Last week, the band released a photo with mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, an indication the album is close to completion.
Tool won the best album packaging Grammy Award for its last record, “10,000 Days,†one of three Grammys the alternative metal band has received in its 29-year career.
Founded in 1990 in Los Angeles, Tool has become known for its shifting time signatures, inclusion of eastern motifs, grinding sound and assaultive guitars. The band’s experimentation and emphasis on the visual arts — hence the packaging Grammy — have led it to be called Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd for the 21st century.
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Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is also frontman of A Perfect Circle and Puscifer and is a renowned winemaker who owns an Arizona vineyard and winery.
A Perfect Circle played Pershing Center. The May concert will be Tool’s first Lincoln appearance.
Tickets for the Tool concert go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Tickets are $49.50 to $125. Tickets will be available Friday only at and via the Ticketmaster mobile app. Tickets will be available Saturday at the arena ticket office.
The Tool concert is the 10th announced show at the arena through August. The other shows are: Shinedown, March 15; Michael Buble, March 23; Styx and Larry the Cable Guy, March 27; Kenny Chesney, May 18; New Kids on the Block, June 8; Carrie Underwood, June 23; Cardi B., July 26; Slipknot, Aug. 8 and Why Don’t We, Aug. 14.
The arena has hosted three shows this year — Disturbed in January, and Excision and James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt in February.