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
Highland Festival Grounds, Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Show Duplicate for Sep 20, 2026
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 / Jimmy Eat World / 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 / Make Them Suffer / 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 / Bodysnatcher / 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 Show all bands
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Highland Festival Grounds, Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Aug 09, 2026
Upcoming
Alcatraz Metal Festival 2025 Day 4 (Sunday)
Powerwolf / Lamb Of God / Saxon / The Ghost Inside / Satyricon / Nevermore / decide(US) / Rose Tattoo / Paleface Swiss / Of Mice & Men / Fit For An Autopsy / Warkings / Rise of the Northstar / Gutalax / Northlane / Death Angel / Kylesa / Vovoid / Bloodbound / Misþyrming & Nergal / Animals as Leaders / Blackbraid / Sanguisugabogg / Firespawn / Mortal Sin / Deceased / Internal Bleeding / Nefarious / Izegrim / Luna Kills / Hemelbestormer / Encounters / Turpentine Valley / Steengruis / Breakout / Anaal Nathrakh Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 06, 2026 –
Aug 09, 2026
Upcoming
Alcatraz Open Air 2026
200 Stab Wounds / Alcest / Alestorm / Alien Ant Farm / Amenra / Amorphis / Anaal Nathrakh / Animals as Leaders / 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 / Ill Niño / 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 / The Ruins of Beverast / Thy Art Is Murder / Udo Dirkschneider / Vacuous / Vended / Voivod / Warkings / Warrior Soul / A thousand sufferings / Aeveris / Coven / Cowboys & aliens / Crowbar / 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 Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 05, 2026
Upcoming
Animals as Leaders

Brutal Assault XXIX

Vojenská pevnost Josefov Jaromer, Czechia
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Aug 05, 2026 –
Aug 08, 2026
Upcoming
Brutal Assault 2026
Primus / The Sisters of Mercy / Animals as Leaders / Cradle of Filth / Periphery / The Ghost Inside / Deafheaven / Katatonia / Municipal Waste / Wardruna / Alcest / Perturbator / Imminence / Ill Niño / Body Count / Deicide / Amorphis / Protest the Hero / Paleface Swiss / Death Angel / The Casualties / Terror / Vader / H₂O / Elder / Marduk / Cryptopsy / Amenra / Septicflesh / Vended / Signs Of The Swarm / Clawfinger / Sanguisugabogg / Guilt Trip / Fallujah / Draconian / Rise of the Northstar / 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 / Septic Flesh Show all bands
Pevnov Josefov / Josefov Fortress Jaroměř, Czech Republic
Aug 04, 2026
Upcoming
Animals as Leaders The Black Lab Wasquehal, Hauts-de-France, France
Aug 03, 2026
Upcoming
Animals as Leaders CHALK Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Aug 02, 2026
Upcoming
Animals as Leaders / Voyager / The Pineapple Thief / Employed To Serve / Luna Kills / Dali

Radar Festival (UK)

O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jul 31, 2026 –
Aug 02, 2026
Upcoming
RADAR Festival #6 MMXXVI
Thy Art Is Murder / Volumes / SikTh / Vianova / Graphic Nature / GHOST IRIS / Pintglass / Hacktivist / Cage Fight / CLT DRP / Sixth Wonder / Rozemary / Skindred / Northlane / Protest the Hero / Heart of a Coward / The Hara / Seething Akira / Unpeople / blackgold / Royal Sorrow / Glass Bridges / Eville / Dacara / Animals as Leaders / The Pineapple Thief / Voyager / Einar Solberg / Elwood Stray / Ihlo / ten56. / Employed To Serve / Dali / Luna Kills / Benthos / Maebe Show all bands
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O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jul 29, 2026 –
Aug 01, 2026
Upcoming
Wacken Open Air 2026
Powerwolf / In Flames / Running Wild / Emperor / Def Leppard / Sepultura / Lamb Of God / Airbourne / Any Given Day / Blood Command / Blood Fire Death / ALLT / Broken by the Scream / Einherjer / Europe / Faun / Future Palace / Gutalax / Grand Magus / Insanity Alert / H-Blockx / Kupfergold / Luna Kills / Mantar / Nevermore / Orbit Culture / Paleface Swiss / Pig Destroyer / The Gathering / The Hardkiss / Ad Infinitum / Alestorm / Alfahanne / Anaal Nathrakh / Angelus Apatrida / Arch Enemy / Black Label Society / Castle Rat / Bleed From Within / Blood Red Throne / Brunhilde / Chaosbay / Corrosion Of Conformity / Craft / Crimson Glory / Danko Jones / Divlje Jagode / Dritte Wahl / Dubioza kolektiv / Electric Bassboy / Eläkeäiset / Employed To Serve / Firespawn / Guilt Trip / Hackneyed / Hardline / Hatebreed / Heavysaurus / Hämatom / Judas Priest / Katerfahrt / Kim Dracula / Kittie / Lagwagon / Life Of Agony / Misery Index / Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen / Municipal Waste / OUR PROMISE / P.O.D. / Paradise Lost / Ricky Warwick / Rose Tattoo / Savatage / Saxon / Skynd / Spectral Wound / Storm Seeker / The Butcher Sisters / The Haunted / Therapy? / Thrown / Thundermother / Thy Art Is Murder / Triptykon / Turbonegro / Vanir / Vended / Vogelfrey / 5th Avenue / 9mm Headshot / Alcest / Alien Ant Farm / Alien Rockin' Explosion / Animals as Leaders / Arroganz / Ashed Winter / Asrock / Battlecreek / Bear McCreary / Blaas of Glory / Black Tish / Blanket Hill / Born Broken / Cowgirls From Hell / Crematory / Cruachan / Crypt Sermon / Cursed abyss / Dead By April / Deafheaven / DEFLAG / Diabolisches Werk / Dieter "Maschine" Birr / Dirty Shirt / E.N.D. / ELCHIVO / Evil Jared x Krogi / Expellow / Finsterforst / Fit For An Autopsy / Force / Gagor / Gidora / Given by the Flames / Haine / Heartless Human Harvest / I see red / Kadavar / Kärbholz / Lacuna Coil / Lovebites / Mambo Kurt / Manntra / Maschine's Late Night Show / Metaklapa / Midhaven / Minotaurus / Misþyrming & Nergal / Morphide / Novelization / Phantom / Poison The Preacher / Sabaton / Sacred Steel / Sagenbringer / Saviourself / Sinamort / Skyline / Sót / Speak in Whispers / Stonem / Temple Of The Absurd / Svbway to Sally / The Crescent's Call / The Limit / Unzucht / The Other / The Troops Of Doom / Thomas Nicholas Band / Trold / tuXedoo / Velvet Rush / Visions of Atlantis / Vreid / Wacken Firefighters / Wüstenberg / Wytch Hazel / Year of the Goat / Yngwie Malmsteen / Zeltinger Band / Anneke van Giersbergen / PRESIDENT / Uli Jon Roth / Würstenberg / Focus. (DE) / ten56. Show all bands
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Wacken Festival Grounds Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Jul 27, 2026 –
Jul 31, 2026
Upcoming
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
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 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
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
May 20, 2026
SATCHVAI Band / Animals as Leaders

"Surfing with the Hydra" 2026 Tour

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Leader Bank Pavilion Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Apr 8, 2026
 San Diego, California, United States
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 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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 Northfield, Ohio, United States
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 Morrison, Colorado, United States
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Jun 15, 2019
 Castle Donington, England, United Kingdom
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 Castle Donington, England, United Kingdom
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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 (05/30/2026):

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  1. Gestaltzerfall
  2. Nephele
  3. Micro-Aggressions
  4. Physical Education
  5. Tempting Time
  6. The Woven Web
  7. The Brain Dance
  8. Red Miso
  9. Monomyth

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 57 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 83 concerts
2015 52 concerts
2014 139 concerts
2013 58 concerts
2012 84 concerts
2011 147 concerts
2010 118 concerts
2009 21 concerts
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