Guns N’ Roses Kick Off 2025 Tour, Play First Show with New Drummer: Video + Setlist

Guns N’ Roses launched their 2025 international tour on Thursday (May 1st) at Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in Incheon, South Korea.

The gig marked the band’s first concert in a year and a half, and the first GN’R show for new drummer Isaac Carpenter, who took over after the band parted ways with longtime stickman Frank Ferrer in March.

For Carpenter’s debut behind the kit, the band opened their kickoff concert in South Korea with “Welcome to the Jungle” — remarkably, the first time GN’R have opened with the song since 2012.

The 22-song set hit on every era of the band, from obligatory Appetite for Destruction classics (“Mr. Brownstone, “It’s So Easy,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” etc.), to the Use You Illusion albums (“Estranged,” “November Rain”) and a few Chinese Democracy cuts (“Better,” “Sorry.”

The band did not appear to perform an encore, instead closing with a strong trio of classic-era staples: “Patience,” “Nightrain,” and lastly, “Paradise City.”

Axl Rose and company also played one of their recent singles, “Perhaps,” as well as covers of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan), “Live and Let Die” (Wings), “Slither” (Velvet Revolver), and “Wichita Lineman” (Jimmy Webb).

Guns N’ Roses’ international tour makes its way across Asia in May before crossing Europe later this summer, with dates running through July. Get tickets at this location.

Check out audience footage and the full setlist from the South Korea show below.

Guns N’ Roses Setlist:
Welcome to the Jungle (first time as opener since Feb. 10, 2012)
Bad Obsession
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
Live and Let Die (Wings cover)
Slither (Velvet Revolver cover)
Perhaps
Estranged
Double Talkin’ Jive
Coma
Sorry
Better
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan cover)
It’s So Easy
Rocket Queen
Slash guitar solo (‘Pride & Joy” by Steve Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble)
Sweet Child O’ Mine
November Rain
Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb cover)
Patience
Nightrain
Paradise City