Tool kicked off their Oceania tour this weekend with two shows at Auckland, New Zealand’s Spark Arena. It’s been over six years since they released their last album Fear Inoculum, but they brought plenty of fresh material by performing a few songs from their back catalog that they hadn’t done in decades.
“Some of these songs we haven’t played since you were sperm,” frontman Maynard James Keenan told the crowd, and he jokingly apologized for bringing COVID to New Zealand (he didn’t realize he had the virus when Tool last played the country in March 2020). On Saturday night, Tool played three songs they hadn’t performed in over 20 years: “H.” from 1996’s Ænima, “Disposition” from 2001’s Lateralus, and “Crawl Away” from 1993’s Undertow. Tonight, they did another Undertow highlight “Prison Sex” for the first time since 2002, as well as “Intension” from their 2006 album 10,000 Days for the first time since 2014.
Sunday night also saw the live debut of Fear Inoculum track “Mockingbeat.” Both nights, Tool reprised their cover of Black Sabbath’s “Hand Of Doom,” which they performed at Sabbath’s big farewell show over the summer. See highlights from Auckland and both nights’ setlists below.
11/22 SETLIST:
“The Grudge”
“Fear Inoculum”
“Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)”
“Rosetta Stoned”
“Disposition” (first time since 2002)
“H.” (first time since 2002)
“Jambi”
“Pneuma”
“Crawl Away” (first time since 1998)
“Vicarious”
“Intolerance”
ENCORE:
“Chocolate Chip Trip”
“Hand Of Doom” (Black Sabbath cover)
“Invincible”
11/23 SETLIST:
“Fear Inoculum”
“The Grudge”
“Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)”
“Rosetta Stoned”
“Intension” (first time since 2014)
“Right In Two”
“Pneuma”
“Prison Sex” (first time since 2002)
“H.”
“Sweat”
ENCORE:
“Mockingbeat” (live debut)
“Hand Of Doom” (Black Sabbath cover)
“Invincible”
“Vicarious”
