2025.05.01 - Grand Rapids, Michigan

[RogueSoul]

April showers bring May flowers as we storm into the new month with another stop on Linkin Park's From Zero World Tour, and the surprises continue to sprout! After taking on the South and interior, the band head north to Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 1, 2025 at the Van Andel Arena for the third stop on their spring U.S. leg.

 

 

Linkin Park is no stranger to the state of Michigan, this show in Grand Rapids being their 19th show in the state and third in the city (the first in Grand Rapids since 2001)! That being said, this'll be their first show back in over 11 years, their last show in the state being on The Hunting Party Tour in Clarkston in 2014. This tour echoes 2025's setlists by being the first to include acts, where instead of specially-made interludes, the band cut between acts using instrumental versions of older cuts. Songs like 'Robot Boy' and 'Blackout' flowed into a Mr. Hahn solo and 'Papercut,' respectively while fresh cuts like 'Guilty All The Same' and 'Final Masquerade' brought the heavy edge of the album further to fruition. At their stop on the Living Things Tour in Auburn Hills in 2012, the band brought the same fervor with energetic tracks fresh off the press like 'Victimized' (mashed up with 'QWERTY')' and 'In My Remains' came to life. 'Bleed It Out' at this show featured a cover of the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage,' closing out the main set with an extra hip-hop and punk rock flair. The A Thousand Suns Tour stop in Detroit in 2011 was no different, with 'When They Come For Me,' 'Iridescent,' and a full performance of 'Blackout' bringing both electrifying energy and a post-apocalyptic vibe. Michigan has been lucky enough to see a lot of 'Blackout,' a song that is currently being heavily requested by fans and band members themselves - but we'll get into that later!

 

On the Minutes To Midnight Tour, the band made two stops to the state. The latter performance was in Detroit on the band's Winter North American Tour in 2008, where the band performed Set S, opening with an unforgiving combo of 'Wake,' 'Given Up,' 'Lying From You,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' 'No More Sorrow,' 'Don't Stay,' and 'Points Of Authority' (which featured Mike's verse from 'Dolla,' a rare Fort Minor track, during the intro). If that's not a crazy first run of songs, I don't know what is. Rare cuts from Minutes To Midnight such as 'In Between' and 'In Pieces' made appearances at this show, while the first show of the cycle in Clarkston in the middle of Projekt Revolution 2007 brought 'The Little Things Give You Away' and 'Leave Out All The Rest,' and also opened with the legendary Gunshot Intro to 'One Step Closer.' Jump back to 2004 on the Meteora World Tour, the band really made their lasting mark on the state with four shows! Projekt Revolution 2004 saw a slew of rarities hit Clarkston, including 'Figure.09' with its Blood, Anger, Suffering transition outro, the Hip-Hop Medley featuring parts of 'Step Up,' 'Nobody's Listening,' and 'It's Goin' Down,' and their cover of 'Wish' by Nine Inch Nails, just to name a few.  Earlier in the year, the band played full versions of 'It's Goin' Down' and 'Nobody's Listening,' as well as tracks like 'P5hng Me A*wy' from Reanimation on their Winter North American Tour - while we can't confirm the setlist for this show, it's likely these tracks made an appearance! The band opened for Metallica and Limp Bizkit (and performed after Deftones and Mudvayne) on the famous Summer Sanitarium tour in 2003 (the tour from the Live In Texas DVD), which commenced at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan in July 2003. Tracks like 'Numb' and 'Figure.09' had just received their live debuts, while other songs like 'Lying From You' and 'From The Inside' confirmed that the band was there to make a statement. The band's first show of the cycle in Michigan was in a much smaller setting, at Detroit's State Theater for an MTV $2 Bill show. The band introduced fans to songs like 'Easier To Run, 'Hit The Floor,' and 'Session' just before Meteora dropped. You can really see how the band's progression took root across this cycle, starting off opening in a stadium and headlining a theater before returning the next year for their own headlining shows in arenas and amphitheaters. 

 

 

The full MTV $2 Bill special featuring Linkin Park's show at Detroit's State Theory on March 17, 2003.

 

The Hybrid Theory Tour discussion for Michigan gets its own paragraph as they played a whopping nine shows there across the one cycle alone. The inaugural Projekt Revolution 2002 at the end of the cycle saw the band whip out all the stops, including 'And One' from the Hybrid Theory EP and their cover of 'My Own Summer (Shove It)' by Deftones. 2001 featured five performances in Michigan across the year, the last of which was the last time the band played a show in Grand Rapids! The band hit Grand Rapids' former DeltaPlex Arena on the Countdown To Revolution Tour in November 2001. Another show we don't have the setlist for, but we do know that on the tour the band was playing the Mike Shinoda Remix of 'High Voltage' and a full version of 'Step Up,' amongst other cuts. The Family Values Tour had brought the band to Auburn Hills just a month before, where Stephen Richards from Taproot came out to sing 'One Step Closer' at the end of the show! The Ozzfest brought the band to a rare back-to-back set of nights in July, the bands first shows in Clarkston. Their first show of the year - also their first headlining show in Michigan - was at Pontiac's humble Clutch Cargo's, where songs like 'Crawling,' 'Pushing Me Away,' and 'High Voltage' were fresh off their live debuts. With 3 shows in the state in 2000, it was the third show that was perhaps the most important: the opening night of P.O.D.'s Kings Of The Game Tour took place in Detroit's State Theater on November 7, 2000, and currently stands as Phoenix's first confirmed show with the band! This is extra funny as just a few nights ago in Texas, the band played their first show with Phoenix in the city (as they had only played Austin once before Phoenix joined back up with them). The band hit also Detroit in September on the Kottonmouth Kings' Ridin' High Tour. And now we come full circle with the band's very first show in Michigan, which coincidentally was in Grand Rapids (some things just happen like poetry)! The Union Underground's An Education In Rebellion Tour brought Linkin Park to Michigan in July 2000. We don't have setlists from many of these early Hybrid Theory shows, so if you were there and happen to remember any details, be sure to let us know!

 

The last stop on the From Zero World Tour brought Linkin Park back to Oklahoma for the first time since 2008, with an electrifying show in Tulsa's Bok Center. The band debuted Set B5, and had surprises in store for fans both at the show and at home from beginning to end! Set B features the 'Iridescent' theme throughout its interludes and intros, kicking off with the staple opening of Inception Intro B and 'Somewhere I Belong.' The early rotation slot (that featured 'Lying From You' in Set A in Austin) brought perhaps the biggest surprise of the night right off the bat, with the live debut of 'Cut The Bridge!' The song received its first taste of a live setting earlier this year, where the 'Cut The Bridge' bridge briefly featured as an extended bridge to 'Bleed It Out' (RIP Bridgeception). The band continued bursting through the set with the new additions to the set, 'Up From The Bottom' and 'Where'd You Go,' which are sounding great in the new sets! Things got fun as the set continued, Mike and Colin delivering a particularly "special" version of Mike's solo medley. It seems Mike got a little carried away with the new extra verse section, continuing the 'When They Come For Me' by rapping verse two of the song for the first time on tour (and changing up a few lines, likely by accident) before going into the 'Remember The Name' portion of the song. Looks like Mike tripped himself up and immediately went into the synth solo after the first 'Remember The Name' chorus instead of the verse. It led to a pretty amazing synth solo from Mike, though, and Tulsa was fortunate enough to get a bonus "Try to catch up, motherfucker!" as an added treat! In the heavy rotation slot right after, 'Given Up' made a return to the set before 'One Step Closer' brought the show to its midpoint. In the "ballad" rotation after 'Lost,' 'Good Things Go' rotated in after being sorely missed from one show, much to the relief of many LPLive members! We've found out that there's a bonus "secret" rotation in the form of the extended intro of 'Overflow,' where Mike seems to be picking a random song to play the melody of over the dark atmospheric synths. In Austin, he played part of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy The Silence,' while in Tulsa he performed the intro riff to 'One' by Metallica. The band kept the fun going on the intro of 'Numb,' asking a fan how Colin should play the drum beat - the fan asked for a Johnny Cash style intro, so the song kicked off with a country version of 'Numb/Encore' before Mike burst out laughing, throwing off the rest of the band as they kicked into the normal song while Emily kept singing 'Numb/Encore.' A couple of unique moments at this show, but the band carried through with grace and visibly had a blast while doing so! 'From The Inside' was swapped in during the encore, replacing 'A Place For My Head' before Emily ripped an essentially full scream on 'Heavy Is The Crown' right after. Pulling off a 15-second single scream during the second-to-last song of the set... unreal. The band closed things out with the familiar 'Bleed It Out,' which featured the missing 'A Place For My Head' during the extended bridge. Two shows in and we already have so much to cover... keep it coming!

 

 

A full front-row recording of Linkin Park's show in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 28, 2025. Lots of great little moments to find in this set - definitely check out Mike's awesome extended solo during his solo medley!

 

With this being the third show, it's time to see what the new version of Set C has in store for us. Interestingly, the songs that were rotating in Set C earlier this year have moved over to Set B now ('From The Inside' and 'Given Up'), leaving both the heavy rotation and the encore rotation up in the air. 'Lost In The Echo' and 'Keys To The Kingdom' - previous rotation songs on older versions of the sets - could be contenders for these spots, or the band could whip out some other songs we haven't seen yet and surprise us! Like we mentioned before, both fans and Emily herself have been talking about 'Blackout' returning to the sets, and that'd definitely set the fanbase ablaze if it came out here in Michigan! 'Points Of Authority' seems like an obvious choice to round out the early set rotation with 'Lying From You' and 'Cut The Bridge,' but with 'Cut The Bridge' being such a surprising curveball, it could very well be another surprise song! 'IGYEIH' would fit perfectly in either this spot or the heavy spot, and is definitely in need of a live debut. That song and 'Stained' are the only two songs left from the base From Zero album to be performed, and 'Stained' could fit into the ballad rotation after 'Lost' perfectly, too. We wouldn't be surprised to see 'Leave Out All The Rest' or 'Friendly Fire' make a return in that spot, either. The recently released 'Unshatter' is also a very real possibility for the setlist, and could realistically make an appearance in any one of these rotation spots! It's anyone's best guess as to what Mike will rap over his solo medley, during the extended bridge of 'Bleed It Out,' or play during the 'Overflow' intro, but we're excited to find out! There's a lot of new verses Mike could pull from since the last time he rotated verses like this, so it would be cool to hear a mixture of old verses like maybe 'High Voltage' or 'In Stereo,' or even newer ones from Post Traumatic or his other solo releases. What are your guesses for what Set C has in store for us?

 

grandson is opening this leg of the tour, and has delivered a new setlist compared to his 2024 opening sets! Kicking things off with a brand new song, grandson sets the dark, rebel tone of his music right off the bat before launching into 'Oh No!!!' His set features cool moments like another brand new song as well as a cover of Bob Dylan's 'Masters Of War,' while delivering familiar moments from his discography including 'Stigmata' and '6:00.' He closes his set out with his iconic 'Blood // Water,' prepping you for Linkin Park in the perfect way. grandson is as big a Linkin Park fan as we are, and he's definitely just as happy to see them back on the road - so be sure to catch his set if you can make it!

 

 

grandson's full set from the Bok Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 28, 2025. Check this out if you want a taste of what to expect from his set at your show!

 

Who's going to the show? LPLive staff member GlassCastles (Nico) will be there, so be sure to say what's up if you see her! Weatherman Rogue Soul here to report a rainy day ahead for Grand Rapids, so be sure to be prepared! It shouldn't rain too crazy, but it'll be raining pretty consistently all day and the temperature's will stay pretty cool at the upper 50s. The band have just dropped their official collaboration with Youtooz, so be sure to check those out if you want a Linkin Park plushie to watch these shows with! The band test ran an order-ahead option for their merch booth in Tulsa, so be sure to watch their social media in case they try it again at this show and you want to try this as an option!

 

The first United States leg of the From Zero World Tour continues to the east coast as the band heads down the Eastern Seaboard with shows in Maryland (I'll be there!), North Carolina, and South Carolina before two festival appearances in Ohio and Florida (Hahninator/Mark will be at these last four). We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

[Ahfack]

Awesome!!! Hope we get some good footage, I really wanted to go to this one too, but couldn't swing it.

[LPLStaff]

Rotation predictions:

 

- Points of Authority

- Keys to the Kingdom

- Unshatter (debut)

- Lost in the Echo

[LPPanther]

I did predictions but realized there's no way they debut IGYEIH, Stained, and Unshatter in one night so I deleted lmao

[YRQRM0]

1 hour ago, LPPanther said:

I did predictions but realized there's no way they debut IGYEIH, Stained, and Unshatter in one night so I deleted lmao

I feel like one of them is a safe debut, or at lest something like LGM or Blackout (maybe shortened)

[GlassCastles]

4 hours ago, YRQRM0 said:

at lest something like LGM

Why would you wish this on me?

[Qwerty18]

Pretty much a contest on what song out of Stained / IGYEIH / Unshatter will be premiered tonight.

 

I'd prefer IGYEIH, but I think Stained is maybe a tiny bit more likely (easier on Emily's voice, more popular on Spotify). Unshatter, I don't see it happening, but it'd be cool too!

Edited yesterday at 09:27 AM by Qwerty18

[ScottiePippo]

Idk why but I feel like Unshatter is a song they will never play live. I think they will play Let you fade later this month or in June instead. Tonight I think it's time to hear Stained for the first time

[MMM]

 

26 minutes ago, ScottiePippo said:

Idk why but I feel like Unshatter is a song they will never play live. I think they will play Let you fade later this month or in June instead. Tonight I think it's time to hear Stained for the first time

I have the same feeling about Unshatter. It also seems to me that LYF will have its live premiere before release of FZ:DE for better promotion.

[LPLStaff]

lol at now we have a LFY and a LYF abbreviation. Oh boy.

[YRQRM0]

42 minutes ago, ScottiePippo said:

Idk why but I feel like Unshatter is a song they will never play live. I think they will play Let you fade later this month or in June instead. Tonight I think it's time to hear Stained for the first time

agreed about Unshatter, but LYF doesn’t seem like a song they’d add either having heard it. It’s a very different feel from the rest of FZ and it would make a lot more sense to promo the stuff that sounds like the “main sound” with adding the rest of FZ and stuff like QWERTY 

 

 

[MMM]

It's good to know that it sound so different. Can't wait to hear it.

Edited 22 hours ago by MMM

[ScottiePippo]

3 hours ago, YRQRM0 said:

agreed about Unshatter, but LYF doesn’t seem like a song they’d add either having heard it. It’s a very different feel from the rest of FZ and it would make a lot more sense to promo the stuff that sounds like the “main sound” with adding the rest of FZ and stuff like QWERTY 

 

 

I'm totally in the dark about LYF. Is it really uncharted territory for LP soundwise or there is a song that they've done in the past that can remind you of it?

[LPLStaff]

It's... really unique. Can't pinpoint a previous LP song like it. Mike whispers quietly on the bridge to give you an example.

[thor3]

twist. They debut Let You Fade! 

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

These songs should be rotated, they are overplayed it sucks that the most interesting and exciting songs are the ones that have to be rotated.

note: im not saying that they should remove ALL OF THEM but if you take 3 songs from that list no one is going to die lol

 

probably the only songs that im 100% that they have to played are ITE and Numb the rest of them we can live without them.
 

Spoiler

 

Somewhere I Belong

 

Crawling
New Divide
The Catalyst

Castle of Glass

Burn It Down
Waiting For The End
Given Up
One Step Closer
What I've Done
Numb
In The End
Faint
Bleed It Out

 

Edited 16 hours ago by JZLP-Benningstrong

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

The only way for LP to play these rare songs is in the form of an LPU-like tour. Ideally, this would also be advertised in such a way that especially rare songs are played live.

[YRQRM0]

8 hours ago, ScottiePippo said:

I'm totally in the dark about LYF. Is it really uncharted territory for LP soundwise or there is a song that they've done in the past that can remind you of it?

It’s not wildly different, it’s still guitar driven and melodic. I think the track that comes to mind for me is TooLegit

[Fleur de Lys]

Maybe this set will have Let You Fade after release? And that’s why it’s so similar to the others at this point…

[Stewe]

https://youtu.be/v0AfKBt1dmI?si=Gdmq-HEmZA3teytH

[bloodbath]

10 hours ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

These songs should be rotated, they are overplayed it sucks that the most interesting and exciting songs are the ones that have to be rotated.

note: im not saying that they should remove ALL OF THEM but if you take 3 songs from that list no one is going to die lol

 

probably the only songs that im 100% that they have to played are ITE and Numb the rest of them we can live without them.
 

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Somewhere I Belong

 

Crawling
New Divide
The Catalyst

Castle of Glass

Burn It Down
Waiting For The End
Given Up
One Step Closer
What I've Done
Numb
In The End
Faint
Bleed It Out

 

Agreed, if you're lucky enough to see them (because tickets are quite expensive), there's not reason no be bitching about if they've played just 7 out of 10 hits. 

 

LP aren't a one hit wonder that they HAVE to play, they give a show worth of your money, not hearing New Divide or whatever isn't the end of the world. 

[Stewe]

Cut the bridge needs to be permanent in the setlist 

[Stranger]

 

finally a footage for KTTK!

[LPLStaff]

The rotations don't make any sense unless now they are random as there were Set A and Set B rotation songs in Set C. Maybe Lying From You is completely gone?