2025.05.08 - Greenville, South Carolina

[RogueSoul]

I truly have never been sadder to say this, but we've just about reached the end of the first United States leg of the tour! The final headlining show before Linkin Park embarks on a short festival run kicks off tomorrow, May 8 in Greenville, South Carolina at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena! 

 

 

While short, this run of shows around the United States has been nothing short of legendary. This show in South Carolina is bound to be the same, as this'll be the first time in 25 years that Linkin Park has performed in the state! The last time they visited the state was in November 2000 on P.O.D.'s Kings Of The Game Tour, just a few weeks after Hybrid Theory had launched. Luckily for Phoenix, he had rejoined the band by this time so this'll only be Emily, Colin, and Alex's first show with the band in the state, unlike what happened in Austin, Texas at the start of the tour where the last time they had played the city was before Phoenix rejoined in early November of 2000! We don't have a setlist for this show in Myrtle Beach back in 2000, but if you were there and happen to remember any information, let us know!

 

Linkin Park has broken all expectations for us with this leg of the tour, completely breaking tradition of how they'd do rotations. Just looking at the show in Raleigh, North Carolina last night reveals a lot about how excellent the tour has been. Celebrating Emily's first birthday with the band in North Carolina, the show kicked off with the From Zero countdown, playing 'Weatherman' by Dead Sara as the band's intro music. Set E5 made its first ever appearance, now the fifth named set in their rotation (do the letters even matter anymore?), with the B Theme ('Iridescent' lyrics) for the intros and outros. 'Lying From You' returned to the Act 1 rotation for the first time since the start of the tour in Austin, having rotated with 'Cut The Bridge' at the following shows and 'Points Of Authority' in Baltimore. After introducing fans to new songs like 'The Emptiness Machine' and 'Up From The Bottom,' the band slid into some more classics like 'Burn It Down' and the lovely combination of Fort Minor's 'Where'd You Go' into 'Waiting For The End.' Things got spicier from here as Mike whipped out the demo verse of 'Lift Off' from Post Traumatic during his solo medley, marking the debut of any material from his solo releases in a Linkin Park set! The stats don't stop there as the band sang happy birthday to Emily and launched right into the live debut of 'IGYEIH' in the heavy rotation! Emily brought out her true nature by diving into the mosh pits during the bridge of the song, celebrating her birthday Dead Sara-style. With this debut, every song from the standard From Zero album has been performed live! This makes it the first record since Minutes To Midnight to be performed in its entirety, let alone on its respective tour. A Thousand Suns has also seen all its tracks performed live, but 'Robot Boy' has never quite been performed in its entirety, technically leaving some of the record left to really be played. The surprises of Act 2 wrapped up with grandson coming back out to perform 'One Step Closer' with the band! My beloved 'Stained' made another appearance after 'Lost,' fresh off its debut in Baltimore. Mike played the riff of 'One' by Metallica again on synth during the intro of 'Overflow,' while the band challenged Colin to a progressive rock 'Numb/Encore' intro for 'Numb.' The encore didn't let up, with 'From The Inside' blowing the arena up before 'Bleed It Out' closed the show with a verse of 'A Place For My Head' during the bridge. 

 

 

The live debut of 'IGYEIH' on May 6, 2025 at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. Emily going into the pit for the bridge and outro is one of the best moments of the cycle, and perhaps in Linkin Park history! With this debut, every song from From Zero has now been performed!

 

All of this, and I haven't even mentioned that the band sounded in top form at both of these last shows in Baltimore and Raleigh, if Hahninator and I have anything to say about it. Been absolutely blown away by both the crowds and how good the band has been sounding after these last few shows, perhaps the best of the whole era so far. Everyone's finally warmed up and caught their stride, and we're loving every second of it! It seems like the band will whip out a Set F at this show, and it's pretty much anyone's guess as to what rotations will come out. In the first rotation, both 'Lying From You' and 'Cut The Bridge' have been performed twice, with 'Points Of Authority' only coming out once, so perhaps the latter will get thrown in for its second bout of the tour. If we keep that idea in mind, it seems likely that 'Good Things Go' and 'A Place For My Head' get thrown in to balance out the other rotations as well. With the heavy rotation after Mike's solo - we have no idea as there are now four possible songs that could go there: 'Casualty,' 'Given Up,' 'Keys To The Kingdom,' and now 'IGYEIH.' If I had to guess, I'd say 'IGYEIH' probably gets thrown in for some more practice before the band starts ripping it out more in Europe and on their second run in the States later this summer. The verse over Mike's solo medley is completely up in the air, too - he's been digging deep for some of these, and seems committed to trying a different one out every night. Seems likely you can look forward to grandson coming out on 'One Step Closer,' too! Leave your guesses as to what rotations will hit South Carolina to round out the arena portion of the leg!

 

 

Mike's solo medley live on May 6, 2025 at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The live premiere of Post Traumatic material in a Linkin Park set with Mike whipping out the demo verse of 'Lift Off' while in the crowd.

 

Who's going to the show? Weatherman Rogue Soul reporting a pretty regular mid-spring day with temperatures around 80 degrees and partly cloudy skies, with the chance of some showers around the day. Nothing that'll stop you from having a great time at the show! Hahninator will once again be in the crowd to rock out with everyone, so if you see him be sure to say hi! It's been great on both of our ends seeing old and new friends at these shows, and we're glad to see everyone's having as good a time as we are covering the shows! This is the last arena show of this leg of the tour, but Linkin Park still has two more U.S. shows lined up before heading to Europe next month. The band headlines the Sonic Temple festival in Ohio on Saturday and the Welcome To Rockville festival in Florida next weekend. Before kicking off their European Tour with festival dates at Austria's NovaRock and Czechia's Rock For People, the band will perform the UEFA Champions League Kick Off Show in München, Germany at the end of the month.

 

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[danielpsoad-09]

Can't wait to finally see the band again after 11 years (saw them during the THP tour in 2014)! During the KROQ interview they said they had 5 new songs rehearsed for this tour. They've played 4, so maybe they'll debut Unshatter or Let You Fade. Not hoping for any crazy surprises at this point, but I really hope they play Good Things Go, Casualty, (both in my top 3 of FZ) and Keys to the Kingdom (also in my top 3 of THP, my favorite album). 

[LPLStaff]

Didn't he say "3.... maybe 5"?

 

Would love to see Good Things Go and Keys after last night got IGYEIH and Stained. IGYEIH is a total jam live. Looking forward to it.

[DylHDZ]

I’ll be there! First time they’ve played in Greenville! Only 45 minutes away from me!

[ScottiePippo]

If we count where'd you go they have already played 5 new songs, stained, IGYEIH, cut the bridge and up from the bottom. 

[ChuckCheese]

Raleigh was absolutely incredible, let’s run it back tonight in Greenville. They can play whatever the hell they want. Let’s see if Emily hops in the pit again or if that was a one time deal.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

13 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Didn't he say "3.... maybe 5"?

 

Would love to see Good Things Go and Keys after last night got IGYEIH and Stained. IGYEIH is a total jam live. Looking forward to it.

 

Well Let You Fade will be a single, pretty sure that they will play it ASAP.

[Ahfack]

looks like they soundchecked OEO

[ScottiePippo]

7 hours ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

 

Well Let You Fade will be a single, pretty sure that they will play it ASAP.

If it's a "single" like Unshatter then who knows if they'll ever play it live

 

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

11 minutes ago, ScottiePippo said:

If it's a "single" like Unshatter then who knows if they'll ever play it live

 

I dont remember Unshatter being promoted as a single by the band members. 

Mike actually mentioned that Let You Fade its their next single.

Edited yesterday at 10:23 PM by JZLP-Benningstrong

[Ahfack]

 

 

SPOILER SETLIST FOR TONIGHT:

 

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[Luki98]

The setlist rotations seem pretty random now. I like that the intro to Overflow has different themes: One, Enjoy The Silence, etc.

I didn't expect Points Of Authority to be in the encore. Watching the videos from the last shows, Emily really rocks!

My show is in less than two months. I can't wait!

[bloodbath]

Glad to see POA in the encore. I love how they're putting songs in unexpected positions 

[LPLStaff]

Had a great time with @ChuckCheese @xxHybridXeroxx continuing what we had going on in Raleigh - they are great people to watch a show with. It was very enjoyable catching up with @danielpsoad-09 before and especially after the show and discussing the band, songs, etc... Daniel is super knowledgeable about playing music and knows so much about LP; really valued our conversations yesterday. Hope to be able to rock again soon - Nashville for sure.

 

Points in the encore was awesome. Good Things Go is a great treat - unfortunately it may be the FZ song that packs the least "punch" live because of the key change (which I of course trust the band on) but I just mean that compared to the rest of the album's songs live. Stained comes off a bit better live than Good Things Go. IGYEIH is a monster track live.

 

They really need to keep Lying From You in every set. It's one of those that just packs a big energy and Cut the Bridge should of course be played but maybe make LFY a staple while dropping Crawling since she lets the crowd sing so much of Crawling. You could notice the start wasn't as hot as Raleigh because LFY was gone.

 

Overall glad to have Emily here and really enjoy seeing them. Step Up verse was a treat and of course there were a handful of people that knew the whole verse in the crowd haha

 

This was close enough to Georgia to pretty much call it a Georgia show... lots of Georgia people there and it's under an hour from the state border of GA and SC. Greenville's arena is good (but smaller, noticeably small) but glad they played there as that's a pretty nice downtown. And any place they can get to where they haven't played before is good. 4th new city on the From Zero Tour with Bogota, Riyadh, and Guadalajara joining it.

[Stewe]

10 minutes ago, LPLStaff said:

 

They really need to keep Lying From You in every set. It's one of those that just packs a big energy and Cut the Bridge should of course be played but maybe make LFY a staple while dropping Crawling since she lets the crowd sing so much of Crawling. You could notice the start wasn't as hot as Raleigh because LFY was gone.

 

 

That's exactly my thoughts.

We have shows (maybe whole tours) in the past without Crawling and isn't dramatic.

Let's rotate Crawling especially now that Emily turns it in a karaoke song 

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

6 minutes ago, Stewe said:

That's exactly my thoughts.

We have shows (maybe whole tours) in the past without Crawling and isn't dramatic.

Let's rotate Crawling especially now that Emily turns it in a karaoke song 

too many karaoke moments

i wonder if one day she will realize that there are moments that are unnecessary.

 

like what she did to the IGYEIH  bridge.

 

Emily is doing pretty fucking good.

[Stewe]

Just now, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

too many karaoke moments

i wonder if one day she will realize that there are moments that are unnecessary.

 

like what she did to the IGYEIH  bridge.

 

Emily is doing pretty fucking good.

I saw that too 

It bothers me a bit when it happens on an old song.

If she can't sing it, then play something else 

[javignacio]

I think LFY and GTG are a must on every setlist. And I'd like to think the karaoke moments are intentional on Crawling so it's a tribute buuuut I doubt it

[Vinescence]

I don't mind the karaoke moments, it's fun when the crowd sings! Down here in South America, sometimes you can't even hear the band, anyways

 

I'd take Lying from You over Crawling any day 

[bloodbath]

Crawling is my favourite song, but... If you can't pull it off, don't play it, or at least once in a while to make it something special, even Chester had his struggles with it.