In March 2013, Sixx announced that the band plans to break up for good after their next album and a subsequent farewell tour. Sixx has often expressed a desire for the band to end while they're still at what he feels is a high point in their career. Vince Neil speculated that the band would release new music in 2014 and that the farewell tour would commence in either 2014 or 2015, saying that “Tours last about two years. So to finish the world, you’ve got to do the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia…it takes some time.” Neil has also discussed the possibility of the band reuniting in the future, although Sixx has insisted that the band will never return following the tour. Both Neil and Tommy Lee have speculated that the band's farewell tour is in part due to Mick Mars' health issues stemming from his ankylosing spondylitis, although Mars has since denied those claims, which have since also been refuted by Neil.
On January 28, 2014 at the conference inside Beacher's Madhouse Theater in Hollywood, Mötley Crüe announced the full details of their retirement tour spanning 70 dates with Alice Cooper playing as a special guest. The tour is set to commence in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 2, 2014. The band members have signed a “cessation of touring agreement” which will prevent them from touring under the Mötley Crüe name beyond the end of 2015. The tour will also serve to promote an upcoming country-music album paying tribute to the band, due for release in summer 2014, and their movie “The Dirt”, due for release in 2015. However, the band did not release details on new material at the time.