Slipknot Setlist Statistics & Song History
Every song Slipknot has ever played live — ranked, charted, and broken down by era. 1,384 setlists spanning 1994–2025. Most played, never played, and everything in between. Data sourced from setlist.fm.
Songs confirmed in Slipknot's studio catalog that have never been performed live according to 1,384 logged setlists. Intros and interludes excluded.
About Slipknot
Slipknot formed in Des Moines, Iowa in 1995. The band built their live reputation in the Iowa underground — the Safari Club in Des Moines hosted 36 of their earliest logged shows — before the 1999 self-titled album broke them nationally. Their catalog now spans eight albums across three decades.
The Setlist Pattern
Slipknot's setlist is built around a core of untouchable songs that have appeared at nearly every show: Surfacing, Spit It Out, (sic), and Wait and Bleed have each crossed 1,000 logged plays. The Iowa and Slipknot eras dominate — seven of the top ten most played songs come from those two records. Late-era albums (The End, So Far especially) are severely underrepresented live, with most tracks never performed at all.
Never Played Patterns
The two most likely reasons a Slipknot song goes unplayed: it's a ballad or soft track (Vermilion Pt. 2, Snuff plays surprisingly low at 77), or it's a deep cut on an album from the post-2014 era. The End, So Far (2022) is their most underperformed album by percentage — only 3 of 13 tracks have been played live. The gray chapter era fares similarly, with 6 of 13 songs never touched live despite the album being nearly a decade old.