2025.08.08 - Toronto, Ontario

[RogueSoul]

The From Zero World Tour is making its mark on Canada, and up next is Toronto! Linkin Park returns to Ontario for the first time in eleven years with a show at the Scotiabank Arena on August 8, 2025!

 

 

This will be Linkin Park's eleventh show in Ontario, but fifteenth appearance overall - while promoting One More Light in March 2017, Mike and Chester appeared on a number of radio and news shows to perform piano versions of 'Heavy,' ahead of their album release and the later cancelled show there in August 8, 2017 (exactly 8 years to the date!). Linkin Park's last proper show in Toronto was back in 2014 on The Hunting Party Tour, in August 2014 at the Air Canada Centre on the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars. The band ran through Set A here, featuring an "encore medley" consisting of 'Lost In The Echo,' 'New Divide,' 'Crawling,' a verse of 'With You,' and 'Until It's Gone.' The band performed at the same venue on the A Thousand Suns World Tour in February 2011, where 'Burning In The Skies' managed to make a rare appearance! This was the last show before a string of cancelled dates back in the United States due to Chester falling ill. 

 

The band visited Ontario a whopping three times on the Minutes To Midnight World Tour, the last of which is particularly notable in Linkin Park live history. The band headlined Edgefest 2008 in Toronto in a string of Canadian dates preceding Projekt Revolution 2008, which didn't make it up to the country. Some band members were delayed at the airport up until 8:00pm, resulting in half the band getting to the show late. Mike and Chester kicked off the show in an acoustic format, opening with piano versions of both 'Breaking The Habit' (the first and only time it was ever fully performed like this) and 'Pushing Me Away.' The rest of the band were ready to play the show at this time, and Mike led into the full band by performing a verse of 'Hands Held High' over the album transition intro into 'What I've Done.' Talk about a wild start to the show! This show also featured the final performance of 'A Place For My Head' on the Minutes To Midnight World Tour, being dropped from their Projekt Revolution sets just a few days later. The band's show in London, Ontario earlier in the year got off without a hitch, and saw the band open with 'No More Sorrow' before diving into some deeper cuts from Minutes To Midnight like 'Valentine's Day' and 'The Little Things Give You Away.' The band's stop in Toronto on Projekt Revolution 2007 was the only performance in Canada that year and the first on the cycle, bringing tracks like a full 'Hands Held High' and 'Leave Out All The Rest' to life in the country for the first time,  even delivering super rare performances of 'Cure For The Itch' and 'QWERTY' in the encore! Mike even threw a verse of 'High Voltage' over the intro of 'Points Of Authority!' Toronto has really seen a lot of exciting moments unfold with Linkin Park!

 

 

The DSP recording of Linkin Park performing at Edgefest 2008 in Toronto, Ontario on July 12, 2008. The only show ever to open with piano performances of 'Breaking The Habit' and 'Pushing Me Away,' this show has a close place in fans' hearts despite it seeming quite difficult for the band!

 

Toronto got two stops on the Meteora World Tour, the latter of which took place in early 2004, on the band's North American Tour that winter. Opening with the unstoppable combo of 'With You' with its Reanimated Intro and 'Runaway,' the band burst into a huge set featuring rarities like 'It's Goin' Down,' 'Nobody's Listening,' and 'My December.' The band also performed 'P5hng Me Away' from Reanimation, which they also performed at their show in 2003 opening for Metallica on the Summer Sanitarium Tour. This tour, famous for being featured on the Live In Texas DVD, brought out all the band's biggest hits like 'Numb' and 'In The End,' while also finding time for other goods like 'Figure.09' and 'Don't Stay.' The band went straight to an after party after this show where fans could ask them questions - apparently about 60 minutes of this footage is available on DVD! 

 

The Hybrid Theory World Tour saw Linkin Park hit Toronto three times - the last of which was on the Family Values Tour in October 2001. 'Forgotten' was dropped at this show so that Total Eclipse and Mista Sinista from the X-Ecutioners could come out and do a short DJ jam before 'A Place For My Head,' and 'One Step Closer' featured a rare extended bridge so that Mike could get the crowd pumped up for Stone Temple Pilots after them. Toronto was the only stop in Canada on the Ozzfest earlier that year, with the band delivering another quick set consisting of energetic tracks like 'By Myself' and 'Papercut.' Linkin Park's very first show in Toronto - and Canada overall - was a free show in November 2000, titled The Edge's New Music Night. The band opened with 'A Place For My Head' and burst through tracks that would soon take over the world from Hybrid Theory, which was only a month old at the time! With such a rich history in the state of Ontario, we're sure the band's show in 2025 will continue to add to the legacy!

 

 

A full recording of Linkin Park's show on the Ozzfest stop in Toronto, Ontario on July 24, 2001. Really old-school stuff and some super raw energy from Linkin Park before they really took over the globe!

 

Linkin Park kicked off their string of Canadian dates with two nights in Montréal, and the action kept coming from the start of Night 1 to the end of Night 2! Between both nights, the band just about hit every rotation song they have in their locker: Act I of both nights had 'Crawling,' but Night 1 featured 'Lying From You' and 'Cut The Bridge' while Night 2 saw 'Points Of Authority' and 'New Divide.' Act II saw a new rotation of 'Castle Of Glass' and 'Lies Greed Misery' take full form, while Night 1 got 'Given Up' and Night 2 saw the return of 'Keys To The Kingdom' to the heavy rotation after Mike's solo medley. Mike whipped out verses of 'Until It Breaks' and 'Lift Off' from Post Traumatic during that part of the show, too! 'Good Things Go' and 'Stained' rotated in for the ballad rotations at each show respectively, while the end-of-set rotation saw the band flip between 'A Place For My Head' and 'Let You Fade' between both nights. Night 1 closed out with the regular 'Bleed It Out,' while Night 2 ended with 'Faint.' The real headline of the shows was that Emily Armstrong hit the full 'Heavy Is The Crown' scream not once, but twice at both shows! What's even better about this is that Chester hit the full scream at the very same venue (Montréal's Centre Bell) in 2008 - something must be in the air in Canada!

 

 

Linkin Park performing 'Heavy Is The Crown' at the Centre Bell in Montréal, Québec on August 5, 2025 - she hit the full scream here AND on night two!

 

The band has kept things pretty simple to start off the second leg of the North American Tour, keeping the setlists pretty much the same as they start to get performed a second time with this next round of shows (i.e., Set A, Set B, etc. are starting to be the same between shows). The exception so far was 'Keys To The Kingdom' at Montréal Night 2 instead of 'IGYEIH.' Things got pretty spicy on the European Tour earlier in the summer, and we're sure that once the band settles into the tour that they'll start playing around with things more. That being said, it seems that Toronto may be lined up for Set A with the 'Castle Of Glass' theme, which featured 'Lying From You,' 'Crawling,' 'New Divide,' 'Lies Greed Misery,' 'Casualty,' 'Over Each Other,' and 'A Place For My Head' as rotation songs. The biggest questions lie in the heavy rotation and the new 'Castle'/'Lies' spot - will 'IGYEIH' come up next, or will the band rotate back around to 'Casualty' and reset the cycle? And will 'Lies Greed Misery' come out for a second night in a row like it did in Newark, New Jersey the last time the set was played, or will 'Castle Of Glass' return? It's not too late for the band to turn this spot into a Living Things rotation, as 'Lost In The Echo' is still in their back pocket from last year and hasn't made an appearance since 2024. It could be prime time to bring this song back into the mix to give each set a unique set of tracks! And we're still waiting for 'Unshatter' to make its live debut so that we have a 100% completion on From Zero. No matter what happens, we'll have you covered on all the juicy details!

 

PVRIS will be opening the show once again, and you don't want to miss them - they're easily the most beloved openers of the tour so far, and have already won over hordes of Linkin Park fans during their sets this tour! They've been switching their sets up on tour as well, rotating through 'HYPE ZOMBIES' and 'Oil & Water' at the recent shows in Montréal, and also whipping out the likes of 'Hallucinations' in Boston. Their set opens with high energy tracks 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'ANIMAL,' while closing out just as heavily and dramatically with 'GODDESS.' The song 'TAKE MY NIRVANA,' produced by Mike Shinoda, has also become a staple in their set. Lynn Gunn has been guesting on 'Burn It Down' with the band, and with only a few shows left with them on tour, you'll want to get in on all the PVRIS action while you still can! Don't miss their set if you can make it on time!

 

 

Linkin Park performing 'Burn It Down' with Lynn Gunn of PVRIS at the Centre Bell in Montréal, Québec on August 5, 2025.

 

Who's going to the show? Linkin Park has been taking the stage quite early for these Canadian shows, so be at the venue by 7:15pm to see PVRIS and 8:20pm to see Linkin Park. The band returns to the United States after this show with stops in Chicago (GlassCastles' hometown show!), Detroit, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania. The band will return to Canada at the end of the leg in September on the other side of the country to perform in Vancouver before all is said and done. Weatherman Rogue Soul here to report a pretty nice day ahead for those going to the show, with a some clouds in the sky and a mostly sunny day, with temperatures only ranging between 27°C and 21°C throughout the whole day. Dress light and get ready to rock!

 

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)!

[LeonardoMF93]

Last show in Canada before the one I’m going to in Vancouver! It’s so close now!

This tour has been amazing. It’s impressive how the band has been getting everything right since their comeback.

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

Canada really delivered and seem to be on a similar path like Europe in terms of being a bigger market than before. A double arena show in Montreal and all the other Canada shows almost sold out immediately. As I wrote in another thread that arena shows fit them better but I can see them playing a one off stadium show in Canada or in the East/Noth East of the US since those markets seem to be pretty big for LP.

[StaticXero]

 

Give this man a live show page 😀

Edited August 7 by StaticXero

[LPLStaff]

Absolutely will do with an Alex page and a Colin page.

[StaticXero]

20 minutes ago, LPLStaff said:

Absolutely will do with an Alex page and a Colin page.

Awesome 😊

[TheInterframe]

Been a while since I've posted (life has been so hectic), but man, I'm so excited for this show.

 

It's my first time seeing LP since the memorial show (which was my first ever LP-related concert). So nervous and excited. So many things of changed in the world and in my life, but my love for LP remains. I love this band, and everyone in this wonderful community.

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

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