Watch Tool Dust Off ‘Flood’ For 1st Live Performance Since 2011

Progressive metal act Tool brought their winter tour to Madison Square Garden on Friday, January 12 for the first of two shows at the famed New York City venue. The band had a few surprises in store on Friday including a performance of “Flood,” a song that hadn’t been played live in nearly 13 years.

Tool delivered an 11-song performance at MSG on Friday, a venue they last visited back in 2001. The band — frontman Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor and drummer Danny Carey — went heavy on cuts from their latest studio album, 2019’s Fear Inoculum. After opening with the LP’s title track, the quartet worked four other tunes off the record into Friday’s setlist.

“Flood” was busted out by Tool after the version of Fear Inoculum’s “Chocolate Chip Trip” that began their second set on Friday. The song featured on the band’s 1993 debut album, Undertow, was last trotted out on February 6, 2011 at Big Day Out Perth as per Setlist.FM.

Tool looked back to Fear Inoculum for “Invincible” following the rarity. The band had another treat to end the night as they performed an extended “Schism.” Friday marked the first time Tool closed one of their shows with the tune from their 2001 LP, Lateralus.

View audience-captured video of Tool breaking out “Flood” at MSG below: