Living Colour [ tickets ], whose members reunited almost three years ago, offers up its first collection of all-new material in a decade, and backs the set with a fall road trip.

The group, which just completed a round of European shows, gets to work on the North American club circuit in early November, and dates stretch through the end of that month. More shows will be added, according to a spokesperson.

The outing follows the Oct. 7 release of "Collideoscope," which is the group's first new studio set since 1993's "Stain." The band--guitarist Vernon Reid, drummer Will Calhoun, singer Corey Glover and bassist Doug Wimbish--took their time making the album, according to Calhoun.

"We spent a year and a half writing and recording four albums worth of material," Calhoun said in statement. "It was a long, drawn-out process, but I think we needed to go through it to make the right record."

The group started work on the album after several rounds of touring that followed a December 2000 reunion performance at New York City's CBGB's. That show came about after Calhoun, who decided that he didn't want to be "sitting around with regret at age 60," phoned Reid and invited him to sit in with Headfake, a drum-and-bass side project that occasionally featured Glover.

Calhoun, who traveled the world extensively after Living Colour disbanded in the mid-'90s, said that the idea of a reunion was frequently brought to his attention over the years.

"It seemed like I was being asked almost everywhere I went," Calhoun said. "It was amazing to learn that the music we created had traveled so far around the world. I had everyone from [Montreux Jazz Festival founder] Claude Nobs to Mick Jagger pull me aside and tell me we needed to regroup. It really made me think about the art and energy of Living Colour and the impact that we made. As an artist, you have to respect that."

Living Colour burst onto the rock scene in 1988 with its debut album "Vivid," featuring the hit single "Cult of Personality." The song peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in May of 1989, and went on to win a GRAMMY^® for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album has been certified double platinum.

"Time's Up" followed in 1990, with the title track garnering the group its second GRAMMY for Best Hard Rock performance.

"Stain" followed in 1993, and work had just begun on a fourth LP when Reid announced that he was pursuing other interests, and that the group was disbanding.