Animals as Leaders Concert History

Animals as Leaders is a Washington, D.C. based instrumental/progressive-metal project formed by guitarist Tosin Abasi in 2007. Their self-titled debut album was released in April 2009 by Prosthetic Records.

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Animals as Leaders Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026)

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 20, 2026
Upcoming
Louder Than Life 2026 (Day 4 of 4)
Tool / Gojira / The Prodigy / Danny Elfman / The Mars Volta / Mastodon / Black Label Society / Killswitch Engage / Ministry / Dethklok / Black Veil Brides / Underoath / Alexisonfire / Animals as Leaders / Thrice / The Home Team / Sleep Theory / Atreyu / Sunami / Filter / Between The Buried And Me / Toadies / Escape the Fate / Jutes / Haste the Day / Holywatr / Locked Shut / I See Stars / The Word Alive / Emery / Maylene and the Sons of Disaster / Arrows in Action / Austin Carlile / The Pretty Wild / End It / Rivers of Nihil / 200 Stab Wounds / 156/Silence / Sace6 / Greyhaven / He Is Legend / Aviana / Vianova / Future Palace / Corpse Pile / Bodybox / Boltcutter / Resolve / Dreamwake Show all bands
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Highland Festival Grounds, Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Sep 17, 2026 –
Sep 20, 2026
Upcoming
Louder Than Life Festival 2026
My Chemical Romance / Iron Maiden / Ice Nine Kills / Jimmy Eat World / Bilmuri / Killswitch Engage / Loathe / Sleep Theory / Get Scared / Sunami / PRESIDENT / Bowling For Soup / Spite / Sabaton / Josey Scott / Chad Gray / Hot Mulligan / Dance Gavin Dance / Volumes / GWAR / Vana / The Pretty Reckless / Megadeth / Alice Cooper / Anthrax / Suicidal Tendencies / Metal Church / The Violent Hour / Pantera / Danzig / Machine Head / Mac Sabbath / Chained Saint / Rise Against / Alkaline Trio / Lit / The Ataris / Skillet / Starset / From Ashes to New / RED / The Rasmus / Adelitas Way / Zero 9:36 / Fit for a King / Currents / ERRA / Like Moths to Flames / Cane Hill / Chelsea Grin / After the Burial / The Acacia Strain / Emmure / Born of Osiris / Thousand Below / Chained Saint / Elijah / Holy Wars / Signs Of The Swarm / Archers / King 810 / The Violent Hour / Dark Divine / Sent By Ravens / Set For Tomorrow / Pierce the Veil / A Day To Remember / The Used / Coheed and Cambria / Taking Back Sunday / Sleeping With Sirens / Cavalera / The Warning / Badflower / We The Kings / Palaye Royale / L.S. Dunes / Soulfly / Lacey Sturm / The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus / Holding Absence / Haywire / Ivri / Scene Queen / Caskets / Rain City Drive / Mushroomhead / Angel Du$t / Jeff Hardy / Wind Walkers / Twitching Tongues / Powerman 5000 / Butcher Babies / Nevertel / Dry Kill Logic / Koyo / Primer 55 / Missing Link / SHOWING TEETH / Earshot / 40 Below Summer / Gates to Hell / Death Valley Dreams / Sublime / BABYMETAL / Papa Roach / Halestorm / Circa Survive / In This Moment / Chiodos / Nothing More / Lindsey Stirling / Tom Morello / Kublai Khan TX / Coal Chamber / P.O.D. / Thursday / Set It Off / Blood For Blood / Orianthi / Boundaries / Agnostic Front / Alien Ant Farm / The Funeral Portrait / Peelingflesh / Hail the Sun / Madball / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / The Barbarians of California / H₂O / Soil / Kami Kehoe / Icon for Hire / Codefendants / Texas Hippie Coalition / Emarosa / Gemini Syndrome / Shaman's Harvest / Fox Lake / Many Eyes / Tantric / TX2 / Diamante / Otherwise / Doobie / Heavy//Hitter / Tool / Gojira / Danny Elfman / The Prodigy / The Mars Volta / Mastodon / Black Label Society / Killswitch Engage / Ministry / Dethklok / Black Veil Brides / Underoath / Alexisonfire / Animals as Leaders / Thrice / The Home Team / Sleep Theory / Atreyu / Filter / Between The Buried And Me / Toadies / Escape the Fate / Jutes / Haste the Day / Holywatr / Locked Shut / I See Stars / The Word Alive / Emery / Maylene and the Sons of Disaster / Arrows in Action / Austin Carlile / The Pretty Wild / End It / Rivers of Nihil / 200 Stab Wounds / 156/Silence / Sace6 / Greyhaven / Aviana / He Is Legend / Vianova / Future Palace / Corpse Pile / Bodybox / Boltcutter / Resolve / Dreamwake / Billy McNicol / Limp Bizkit / Alissa White-Gluz / Downswing / Silly Goose Show all bands
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Highland Festival Grounds, Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Aug 09, 2026
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2026 Day 4 (Sunday)
Powerwolf / Lamb Of God / Saxon / Nevermore / Warrior Soul / Creeper / Warkings / Bloodbound / Luna Kills / Gutalax / Satyricon / decide(US) / Death Angel / Misþyrming & Nergal / Anaal Nathrakh / Firespawn / Blackbraid / Izegrim / The Ghost Inside / Paleface Swiss / Rise of the Northstar / Fit For An Autopsy / Northlane / Animals as Leaders / Sanguisugabogg / Breakout / Encounters / Kylesa / Vovoid / Nefarious / Deceased / Internal Bleeding / Mortal Sin / Hemelbestormer / Turpentine Valley / Steengruis / DJ Dikke Dennis / DJ Nathachelet / DJ Kardi / DJ Turbeau / DJ Tône / RESTLESS & WILD / DJ Metalandy / DJ Skullz / DJ Kingfisher / Vanst Jinberge & vanst Jinberge Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 07, 2026
Brutal Assault Festival
Old Man’s Child / Katatonia / Eivør / Primus / Clawfinger / Paleface Swiss / Coroner / Animals as Leaders / Corrosion Of Conformity / Signs Of The Swarm / Ratos de Porão / Angelus Apatrida / Internal Bleeding / ALLT / Pig / Vio-Lence / Marduk / Grave / MASTER BOOT RECORD / Arthur Brown / Thy Catafalque / Kraanium / Saor / Mortal Sin / A.A. Williams / Sadistic Intent / Dusk / Chaotian / Arottenbit Show all bands
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Fortress Josefov Jaroměř, Czech Republic
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Aug 06, 2026 –
Aug 09, 2026
Alcatraz Open Air 2026
200 Stab Wounds / Alcest / Amenra / Alestorm / Alien Ant Farm / Animals as Leaders / Amorphis / Anaal Nathrakh / Arch Enemy / Armored Saint / Aura Noir / Biohazard / Blackbraid / Bleed From Within / Bloodbound / Body Count / Breakout / Brutal Sphincter / Carach Angren / Castle Rat / Channel Zero / Chelsea Grin / Combichrist / Coroner / Crimson Glory / Deceased / Deicide / Der Weg Einer Freiheit / Enthroned / Firespawn / Fit For An Autopsy / Graceless / Gutalax / Hate / Hatebreed / Heidevolk / Igorrr / Imminence / Immolation / Internal Bleeding / Kittie / Kylesa / Lamb Of God / Luna Kills / Mantah / Merauder / Metal Church / Midnight / Mikkey Dee / Miracle of Sound / Monolord / Mortal Scepter / Municipal Waste / Mushroomhead / Nevermore / Northlane / Of Mice & Men / Orbit Culture / Paleface Swiss / Powerwolf / Psychonaut / Ratos De Porao / Revocation / Rise of the Northstar / Rose Tattoo / Sacred Reich / Sanguisugabogg / Satyricon / Savatage / Saxon / Slaughter To Prevail / Soen / Soulfly / Terror / Testament / The Ghost Inside / Thy Art Is Murder / Udo Dirkschneider / Vacuous / Vended / Voivod / Warkings / Warrior Soul / A thousand sufferings / Aeveris / Cowboys & Aliens / Coven / Cyclone / Divided / Encounters / Firewind / Funeral Dress / Graphic Nature / HEALTH / Hemelbestormer / Hope Erodes / Insanity Alert / Izegrim / Jungle Rot / Left To Die / Masterplan / Misbyrming & Nergal / Modder / Mortal Sin / Nefarious / Poseydon / Primus / Ronker / Sons Of Lioth / Steengruis / Tailgunner (UK) / The Troops of Doom (BR) / Turpentine Valley / Wings of Steel / Witch Club Satan / Your Highness / Dead Serious / Temptations for the weak / Duskling / Death Angel / Celeste Band / VURT / Hope as a weapon Show all bands
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 05, 2026
Animals as Leaders

Brutal Assault XXIX

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Vojenská pevnost Josefov Jaromer, Czechia
Aug 05, 2026 –
Aug 08, 2026
Brutal Assault 2026
Primus / Animals as Leaders / Cradle of Filth / Periphery / The Ghost Inside / Deafheaven / Katatonia / Municipal Waste / Wardruna / Imminence / Alcest / Perturbator / Ill Niño / Body Count / Deicide / Amorphis / Protest the Hero / Paleface Swiss / Death Angel / The Casualties / Terror / Vader / H₂O / Elder / Marduk / Cryptopsy / Amenra / Vended / Signs Of The Swarm / Clawfinger / Rise of the Northstar / Sanguisugabogg / Guilt Trip / Fallujah / Draconian / 200 Stab Wounds / Grave / Arthur Brown / MASTER BOOT RECORD / Coroner / ALLT / Triptykon / Old Man’s Child / Ratos de Porão / Thy Catafalque / Saor / Slope / Internal Bleeding / Deserted Fear / Crippling Alcoholism / Wyatt E. / Left To Die / Sacred Reich / Armored Saint / Angelus Apatrida / Revocation / Onslaught / Metal Church / Violent Magic Orchestra / Батюшка (Batushka) / Witch Club Satan / BAEST / Kittie / Immolation / Hate / Sadistic Intent / Mortal Sin / Vio-Lence / Monstrosity / Demolition Hammer / Septicflesh Show all bands
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Pevnov Josefov / Josefov Fortress Jaroměř, Czech Republic
Aug 04, 2026
Animals as Leaders
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The Black Lab Wasquehal, Hauts-de-France, France
Aug 04, 2026 –
Aug 08, 2026
Brutal Assault 2026
Primus / Animals as Leaders / Deafheaven / Periphery / The Ghost Inside / Katatonia / Wardruna / Municipal Waste / Imminence / Alcest / Perturbator / Paleface Swiss / Body Count / Amorphis / Deicide / Protest the Hero / Terror / Death Angel / Unearth / Elder / The Casualties / Vader / H₂O / Amenra / Vended / Cryptopsy / Marduk / Septicflesh / Sanguisugabogg / Signs Of The Swarm / Guilt Trip / Clawfinger / 200 Stab Wounds / Draconian / Die Krupps / Hocico / Rise of the Northstar / MASTER BOOT RECORD / ALLT / Grave / Coroner / Arthur Brown / Nadja / Triptykon / Old Man’s Child / Thy Catafalque / Ratos de Porão / Saor / Slope / Internal Bleeding / Aura Noir / Crippling Alcoholism / Mortal Sin / Deserted Fear / Wyatt E. / Left To Die / octopoulpe / Kariti / Ahab / The Laws / Septicflesh / Kim Dracula / Batushka / Witch Club Satan / Kittie / Bleed From Within / Thy Art Is Murder / Tormentor / Hate / A A Williams / Eivør / Vulvodynia / Djerv / Gutrectomy / Insomnium / Królówczana Smuga / Satyricon / Immolation Show all bands
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Pevnov Josefov / Josefov Fortress Jaroměř, Czech Republic
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Aug 03, 2026
Animals as Leaders / You Win Again Gravity
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CHALK Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Aug 02, 2026
Animals as Leaders / Voyager / The Pineapple Thief / Employed To Serve / Luna Kills / Dali

Radar Festival (UK)

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O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jul 31, 2026 –
Aug 01, 2026
Wacken Open Air 2026 July 31 Day 3
Gutalax / Paradise Lost / Black Label Society / In Flames / Running Wild / Vreid / Danko Jones / Saxon / Judas Priest / Sepultura / Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen / Future Palace / Mantar / Paleface Swiss / Hatebreed / Blood Fire Death / Emperor / Svbway to Sally / Heartless Human Harvest / Cursed abyss / Chaosbay / Luna Kills / Insanity Alert / Arroganz / Divlje Jagode / Alfahanne / tuXedoo / Blaas of Glory / Metaklapa / Trold / Cruachan / Eläkeläiset / Dubioza kolektiv / Faun / ten56. / Grand Magus / Any Given Day / Pig Destroyer / Bear McCreary / The Haunted / Alcest / Employed To Serve / Dead By April / Deafheaven / Animals as Leaders / Crematory / Skynd / Dovydas / Mambo Kurt / Alien Rockin' Explosion Show all bands
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Jul 29, 2026
Rockstady Extreme Fest 2026 - Day 3
Lamb Of God / Arch Enemy / In Extremo / Municipal Waste / Annisokay / Slaughter To Prevail / Accept / thy art of murder / Immolation / ALLT / Deicide / Candlemass / Perturbator / The Ghost Inside / Animals as Leaders / Novembers Doom / Underwaves
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Ghimbav, Brașov County, Romania
Jul 29, 2026 –
Aug 01, 2026
Wacken Open Air 2026 (W:O:A ‘26)
2silent / 5th Avenue / 9mm Headshot / Acoustic Guerillas feat. Ellerbek Pussyboys / Acoustic Steel / Ad Infinitum / Adrian Pauls Rockin‘ Roncalli Show / Airbourne / Alcest / Alestorm / Alfahanne / Alien Rockin' Explosion / Alien Ant Farm / ALLT / Anaal Nathrack / Andreas Kümmert / Anett & Livi Acoustic + Radó Éden / Angelus Apatrida / Animals as Leaders / Any Given Day / Arch Enemy / Arroganz / Ashed Winter / Asrock / Battlecreek / Bear Me Creary / Blaas of Glory / Black Alleys Sons / Black Label Society / Black Tish / Blanket Hilkl / Bleed From Within / Blood Command / Blood Fire Death / Blood Red Throne / Born Broken / Brunhilde / Broken by the Scream / Castle Rat / Cevret / Chaosbay / Corrosion Of Conformity / Correpted Blood / Cowgirls From Hell / Craft / Crematory / Crimson Glory / Cruachan / Crypt Sermon / Cursed abyss / Danko Jones / Days of Ruin / Dead By April / Dead Memories / Deafheaven / Death Row / Dieter "Maschine" Birr / Def Leppard / DEFLAG / Diabolisches Werk / Die from Sorrow / Dirty Shirt / Divlje Jagode / Doc Burner / Dovydas / Dramatist / Dritte Wahl / Dry and Shattered / Dubioza kolektiv / E.N.D. / Einherjer / Eläkeläiset / ELCHIVO / Electric Bassboy / Emperor / Employed To Serve / Europe / Evil Jared x Krogi / Expellow / Faun / Focus / Force / Finsterforst / Firespawn / Fit For An Autopsy / Future Palace / Gagor / Gannondorf / Gidora / Give Me Rain / Given by the Flames / Godzilla in the Kitchen / Goodnight Greatness / Grand Magus / Grell / Guilt Trip / Gutalax / H-Blockx / Hackneyed / Hämatom / Haine / Hardline / Hatebreed / Heartless Human Harvest / Heavysaurus / Human Nebula / I see red / In Flames / Insanity Alert / Invasion / Jäst / Jazz Sabbath / Judas Priest / Kadavar / Kärbholz / Katerfahrt / Kim Dracula / Kittie / Kupfergold / Lacuna Coil / Lagwagon / Lamb Of God / Life Of Agony / Lovebites / Luna Kills / Lutz Drenkwitz / Mambo Kurt / Mandowar / Manntra / Mantar / Mawiza / Megabosch / Megalive / Metalchor e.V. / Midhaven / Minotaurus / Misery Index / Mit ohne Strom / Mob Rules / Morphide / Mother / Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen / Mudfinger / Municipal Waste / Nevermore / Noiduin / Novelization / Nothing More / Orbit Culture / The Other / OUR PROMISE / Ozzyfied / P.O.D. / Paleface Swiss / Paradise Lost / Pentastone / Phantom / Pig Destroyer / Poison The Preacher / Powerwolf / Ragetrack / Ricky Warwick / Rise of the Shadows / Rose Tattoo / Uli John Roth / Running Wild / Sabaton / Sacred Steel / Sagenbringer / Savatage / Save Your Last Breath / Saxon / Saviourself / Seers of Light / Sentient Void / Sepultura / Sinamort / Sintram / Sir Henry Hot / Skyline / Skynd / Sót / Speak in Whispers / Spectral Wound / Stonem / Storm Seeker / Svbway to Sally / Sventevith / T.H. & the Boneshakerz / Tales of Nebelheym / Temple Of The Absurd / ten56. / The Butcher Sisters / The Crescent's Call / The Gathering / The Hardkiss / The Haunted / The Hebridean Sheep / The Limit / The Troops Of Doom / The Trouble Notes / The Ukeboys / Therapy? / Thomas Nicholas Band / Thrown / Thundermother / Thy Art Is Murder / Triptykon / tuXedoo / Trold / Turbonegro / Unzucht / Van Tastik / Vanir / Velvet Rush / Vended / Vika Goes Wild / Visions of Atlantis / Vreid / Wacken Firefighters / Whizbow / Wildcover / witchlords / Vogelfrey / Wüstenberg / Wytch Hazel / xoxo / Year of the Goat / Yngwie Malmsteen / Zeltinger Band Show all bands
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Wacken Holy Grounds Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Jul 27, 2026 –
Jul 31, 2026
Rockstadt Extreme Fest 2026
Marilyn Manson / The Prodigy / Godsmack / Lamb Of God / In Flames / Black Label Society / Sabaton / Arch Enemy / Hatebreed / Helloween / Animals as Leaders / Accept / The Ghost Inside / Deafheaven / Thy Art Is Murder / Northlane / Slaughter To Prevail / Municipal Waste / Alcest / Perturbator / Fu Manchu / Deicide / Amorphis / Decapitated / Crowbar / Satyricon / Fit For An Autopsy / Bleed From Within / Igorrr / Death Angel / Insomnium / Candlemass / Heaven Shall Burn / Vader / Elder / Cryptopsy / Orbit Culture / Malevolence / Vended / The Gathering / Wolves in the Throne Room / Nevermore / Signs Of The Swarm / Voivod / Immolation / In Extremo / Monolord / Trooper / Feuerschwanz / Tribulation / Anneke van Giersbergen / Gutalax / Grave / Coroner / ALLT / Misþyrming / Panzerfaust / Bucovina / Implant pentru Refuz / Raised By Owls / Serrabulho / Left To Die / Machukha Show all bands
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Cetatea Rasnov Râșnov, Romania
May 30, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Joe Satriani / Steve Vai / Animals as Leaders
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Filene Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Vienna, Virginia, United States
May 29, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Animals as Leaders
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Event Center, Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
May 28, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Animals as Leaders
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Beacon Theatre New York, New York, United States
May 27, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Animals as Leaders

Surfing With The Hydra 2026 Tour

Santander Performing Arts Center Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
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May 24, 2026
Animals as Leaders / Jonathan Scales Fourchestra / Nephele
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Preserving Underground New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
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May 23, 2026
SatchVai Band / Animals as Leaders
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The Dome Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
May 22, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Animals as Leaders / Joe Satriani / Steve Vai
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Palace Theater Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
May 21, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Animals as Leaders

Surfing with the Hydra 2026 Tour

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Palace Theatre Albany, New York, United States

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Rockstadt Extreme Fest 2026
Jul 27 - 31, 2026
 Râșnov, Romania
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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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 New York, New York, United States
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 New York, New York, United States
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 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Genres:

Metal
Experimental
Progressive Rock
Instrumental
Progressive Metal
Math Rock
Mathcore
Djent
Instrumental Rock
Math Metal
Progressive Jazz Fusion
Jazz Metal
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Latest Setlist (08/09/2026):

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  1. Tooth and Claw
  2. Micro-Aggressions
  3. Gordian Naught
  4. Tempting Time
  5. Physical Education
  6. The Woven Web
  7. Red Miso
  8. Monomyth
  9. CAFO

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 58 concerts
2025 23 concerts
2024 31 concerts
2023 66 concerts
2022 45 concerts
2021 29 concerts
2020 33 concerts
2019 68 concerts
2018 1 concert
2017 79 concerts
2016 82 concerts
2015 52 concerts
2014 138 concerts
2013 58 concerts
2012 84 concerts
2011 147 concerts
2010 118 concerts
2009 21 concerts
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