2025.08.05 - Montréal, Québec (Night One)

[RogueSoul]

It's been a busy week for the LPLive staff as we covered the first few shows of the tour, but we're back home and ready to get back into action - and the band is too! Linkin Park are bringing the From Zero World Tour up to Canada for another multiple-night stand at Montréal's Centre Bell (their first for the country), and the action kicks off tonight, August 5, 2025!

 

 

This will be Linkin Park's eighth show in the Canadian province of Québec, and their first sixth in Montréal. We'll split up the history lesson again for these shows, so let's start where the band left off in the area: The Hunting Party World Tour. Linkin Park headlined the Amnesia Rockfest in June 2015 in Montebello, delivering a shortened version of their festival setlist but still finding time to deliver performances of 'A Line In The Sand' and 'Wastelands' (transitioning from a shortened version of 'Runaway') to the crowd. This was the band's second visit to the province on the world tour, with a headlining show at the Park Jean-Drapeau in Montréal just the summer before on the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars, where they played even more tracks from The Hunting Party including 'Guilty All The Same,' 'Rebellion,' and 'Final Masquerade.' The band played Set B at this show, which also featured the 2014 Abridged Version of 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You' and 'Somewhere I Belong' rotating in. The band only managed to visit Central and Western Canada on the Living Things World Tour, making their first performance in the province in the 2010s their stop at Centre Bell on the A Thousand Suns World Tour - the last time they played at tonight's venue! The band performed there in February 2011, with cuts like 'Blackout' and 'Iridescent' from A Thousand Suns filling the setlist with an apocalyptic sense of drama. Older tracks like 'Shadow Of The Day' and 'No More Sorrow' were also thrown into the mix, and en epic encore complete with 'When They Come For Me,' 'Papercut,' 'New Divide,' 'Crawling,' and 'One Step Closer' closed out the show.

 

 

An almost full recording of Linkin Park's headlining set at the Amnesia Rockfest in Montebello, Québec on June 20, 2015. This set featured some awesome tracks, including a very rare performance of 'A Line In The Sand.'

 

The band's last show on the From Zero World Tour took place in my home state of New Jersey, with their first show ever at the Prudential Center in Newark! While it was sadly the last show of the LPLive run, it may just have been the most fun! With a loud crowd ready to sing the hits, the band dove into tracks like 'Crawling,' 'New Divide,' and 'Lying From You' in Act I before 'The Emptiness Machine' wrapped up the act. Act II followed as normal, with the exception of 'Lies Greed Misery' rotating in (in place of 'Castle Of Glass') for a second show just after its first performance in 11 years at Boston night two, likely to get some more practice in on the song as the tour progresses. Mike rapped 'Petrified' over his solo medley before 'Casualty' rocked the place, with 'One Step Closer' ending the first half of the show before the crew began moving the instruments onstage around during the Break/Collapse Transition. 'Over Each Other' featured as the ballad rotation, and none other than Santa himself picked a funky style for the Colin Control Intro for 'Numb.' 'From The Inside' made its second appearance on the North American leg, before 'Heavy Is The Crown' and 'Bleed It Out' closed out the main set. Resolution Intro A ('Castle Of Glass' theme), 'Papercut,' 'In The End,' and 'Faint' closed out the night once again, making it the third time out of four shows this leg that 'Faint' has closed after the band brought the sequence back at the end of the European Leg during Night Two in Frankfurt, Germany. It seems like the band is loving closing with 'Faint' again (we're loving it, too), and we're likely to see it happen again at least once between the two shows in Montréal!

 

 

Linkin Park's full show at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 3, 2025, filmed by legendary taper Jim Powers!

 

It's anyone's best guess as to what the band will be bringing out for their first stops in Canada on the tour, but between the two nights we're bound to see some surprises! Act I has a total of five potential songs, with the three from Newark as well as 'Points Of Authority' and 'Cut The Bridge' (with the Moscow Intro) as potential tracks that could also come out. 'Lies Greed Misery' and 'Castle Of Glass' seem to be in rotation with each other now, adding some more spice to Act II before Mike's Solo and the heavy rotation - 'Casualty' at the last show leaves 'Given Up,' 'IGYEIH,' or the as-of-yet unseen 'Keys To The Kingdom' as the likeliest contenders for this spot in the next show. 'Stained' and 'Good Things Go' are also lined up for some action in the ballad rotation, while 'A Place For My Head' or 'Let You Fade' while likely appear at the end of the set in place of 'From The Inside.' All of this as well as smaller moments like the Colin Control 'Numb/Encore' intro and the Shinoda keyboard cover during the 'Overflow' intro will make ascertain that every second of these next two shows will be something special, and we're excited to see what the band will be cooking up for Canada! These shows and Boston were the only two multiple-night stands left this year, so get ready for some action.

 

PVRIS will once again be opening the show, and I have to say it really seems like no other opening act on the tour so far has won over the crowd like they have. Opening with 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'ANIMAL,' PVRIS's set begins with a huge burst of rocking energy. Linkin Park hasn't been the only one changing their setlists, as PVRIS have delivered at least one new song every night - in Newark, 'HYPE ZOMBIES' and 'Oil & Water' got their tour debut, while other tracks like 'Hallucinations' and 'Monster' have also been seen. They added 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' to the set, the song from their latest album EVERGREEN which Mike produced! To top it all off, Lynn Gunn has started guesting onstage with the band for 'Burn It Down,' too, so the PVRIS action doesn't end when their set does! They'll be on the road with the band for a few more shows (their last stop being Detroit next week), so be sure to check out their set if you can get there in time!

 

 

Linkin Park performing 'Burn It Down' with Lynn Gunn from PVRIS live at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 3, 2025.

 

Who's going to the show? Weatherman Rogue Soul here to report it'll be a warm and cloudy day in Montréal, with a maximum temperature of 26°C and a low of 16°C, so dress comfortably and get ready to jam! Night Two at the Centre Bell in Montréal takes place the next day before the band heads to the capital, Toronto, for another arena show. The band heads back down to the U.S. after that with shows in Chicago (Nico aka GlassCastles' hometown show!), Detroit, and Philadelphia. Rumors are starting to fly that Linkin Park will be returning to Australia possibly as early as December 2025, so it looks like the band's touring schedule won't be dying down any time soon! We're only at the start of the longest stretch of shows the band has so far on the whole World Tour, so strap in, because we're not slowing down yet!

 

With all the recent Linkinpedia updates we've been doing as far as the show pages show, we'd like your help in expanding them further! We are looking for pictures or scans of a number of items from the band's 2025 tour, including wristbands, tickets, setlists, exclusive pop-up store content, and more. If you have anything to contribute, check out our thread on the matter and submit your pictures directly to us - if they meet the mark we will get them uploaded to the show pages and credit you (and also blur your information out where applicable)! Be sure to check out the site to see our recent changes to the show pages (including marked rotation songs, album breakdowns, and more statistics) if you haven't already, and enjoy the upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers with faster loading times on both sites! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already!

 

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)!

[LPLStaff]

Hoping Keys shows up for this one. 2 nights in Canada is awesome.