Tool live: what they've played, 1993 to 2026

Built from roughly 1,270 setlists logged on setlist.fm, cross-checked against news coverage of injuries, side projects and one-off shows. Every number links back to its source. Prefer something less spreadsheet? Open the visual view.

What the data shows

  • Songs per night haven't dropped. Roughly 10 a night in 1997 and 1998, roughly 11 to 13 a night since 2016.
  • Music per night has gone up a lot. Using studio run times as a guide, a 1997 set was roughly 65 minutes of songs. A 2022 to 2024 set was roughly 100, because the Fear Inoculum tracks run 10 to 14 minutes each.
  • The old catalogue has thinned out. Sober, Opiate, Lateralus, Third Eye and Eulogy were staples and have mostly gone. Maynard said in 2023 that the older songs are physically harder with age and he can't sing a whole set of them anymore.
  • The most locked-in era was 2010 to 2019, when only 3 to 5 songs a year rotated. 2025 had the widest spread in the data, with 29 different songs including Disposition, Intension, Prison Sex, Crawl Away and a Black Sabbath cover.
  • Encores are rare, but they're back. Across 997 complete setlists from 1992 to 2024, only 43 had an encore. Then 7 of the 12 Pacific Rim shows in late 2025 had one.

Overview

Minutes of music per night

Bars show estimated minutes per show, split by album. The line shows songs per show. Tap a year's bar to open its setlists.

Years marked with * have show counts only (1991, 1995, 1999, 2011, 2015 and the 2018 music clinics). Faded bars mean setlist.fm only has partial setlists for that year, so the figures run low. 1994 includes the nine 1995 shows.

Most played in this period

#SongAlbumPlaysShare of shows

How the night opens and closes

Opening song, last song of the night and encores for each tour in the selected years. Tap a tour name for its full average setlist on setlist.fm.

Not broken down: the 2013 Pacific tour, the two short 2019 tours before Fear Inoculum came out, and years setlist.fm doesn't tag to a tour. setlist.fm skips partial setlists in these counts, so some tours show fewer shows than the year totals.

Deep cuts in this period

Played at fewer than a quarter of the shows in the selected years.

SongAlbumPlaysYears

Rarest songs ever

All-time live count across every logged Tool show.

SongAlbumAll-time plays

Songs they no longer play

Songs with 40 or more all-time plays that don't appear in the selected years. "Last seen" is the latest year they appear in the years loaded here, so check the song link for the exact last date.

SongAlbumAll-time playsLast seen

Songs I've seen live

Five nights in south-east Queensland, 2002 to 2025. This section ignores the filters above.

Every song, and how many times

SongAlbumTimesNights

The five setlists

Big ones still missing

The most-played Tool songs of all time that weren't on any of my five nights.

SongAlbumAll-time plays

What was going on around the setlists

Health and injurySide projects and breaksTours and special nights

Every year's setlists

Each link opens the full list of shows for that year on setlist.fm.