2025.08.27 - Minneapolis, Minnesota

[RogueSoul]

Things are definitely getting interesting on tour now! Linkin Park are bringing the From Zero World Tour to Minneapolis, Minnesota's Target Center for their tenth show in the Twin Cities area and for the first time in over ten years!

 

 

Linkin Park last visited the Twin Cities in 2014 on The Hunting Party Tour where they the Minnesota State Fair mid-tour in the suburb of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. 

 

The time before that was on the A Thousand Suns World Tour, performing at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. This set featured a bunch of epic moments, including 'What I've Done' transitioning into 'Empty Spaces' and 'When They Come For Me,' 'Numb' with the Oppenheimer Outro transitioning into 'Breaking The Habit,' and a rare performance of 'Burning In The Skies!' Most of the band landed very late (8:00pm) for this show, so Meet & Greet attendees were told only Mike would be attending - but the rest of the band ended up making it! Linkin Park rocked St. Paul previously in 2008 at the same venue on the Winter North American Tour in February, where the band rolled through an epic Set T. Featuring an amazing opening sequence of 'What I've Done' with its AMBO Intro into 'Faint,' 'No More Sorrow,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' 'Lying From You,' 'From The Inside,' and 'Points Of Authority' with a verse of 'In Stereo,' you could call this  one of the best opening runs the band's ever conceived. That's kick our ass in the present day! Other highlights from the set include Minutes To Midnight rarities like 'Hands Held High' and 'Valentine's Day,' as well as a double encore, the first of which opened with a sobering performance of 'My December.' 

 

 

Linkin Park's full show at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 28, 2011. A classic A Thousand Suns-era setlist, this was the last time Linkin Park visited the area!

 

The band made three stops in the Twin Cities on the Meteora World Tour, the last of which was in January 2004 on the Winter North American Tour that year. Kicking off with the dynamic duo of 'With You' and 'Runaway,' the band came out exploding as they launched into more new tracks like 'Don't Stay' and 'Numb.' Rare tracks like 'It's Goin' Down,' 'Nobody's Listening,' and 'P5hng Me A*wy' also made their way into the set, and the band even played a cover of 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' by Jet - the rumor is that Chester dared Mike to dress up as the lead singer of Jet and sing the cover, and he did, even playing the rest of the encore in the get up! The band opened for Metallica on their Summer Sanitarium Tour in the summer of 2003, which fans will know from the Live In Texas DVD. Boasting all the goods like 'From The Inside,' 'Figure.09,' and 'By Myself,' the band delivered an awesome show, surely winning over hordes of Metallica fans while they were at it! Linkin Park's first show of the Meteora cycle in the city was at the Quest Club in Minneapolis on the LP Underground Tour earlier in the year, where fans were the first to hear new music from the album, including rare tracks like 'Hit The Floor' and 'Easier To Run.'

 

Linkin Park rocked the Twin Cities four times on the Hybrid Theory World Tour, the last of which was on the Family Values Tour, rocking the Xcel Energy Center for the very first time in October 2001. A classic setlist featuring goods like 'Forgotten' and 'A Place For My Head,' the band's 45-minute set was packed full of energy. The band's very first headlining show in the city was back in February of that year, on the Street Soldiers Tour at the Quest Club where songs like 'Pushing Me Away' and 'Crawling' were being played for the first time. In December 2000, Linkin Park played 93X's Post Nut-Cracked Party Afterparty for free, after the likes of Deftones, Taproot, and Papa Roach played the actual event, while their very first show in the area was in August, on their very first tour, opening for the Union Underground's An Education In Rebellion Tour. We don't know much about these very early shows, so if you were at any and remember any details, let us know!

 

 

Linkin Park performing at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 27, 2003 on Metallica's Summer Sanitarium Tour. If you want to see what the Live In Texas shows looked like from an audience perspective, look no further!

 

The From Zero World Tour's last stop was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the band continued to surprise us midway through the tour! Performing Set B ('Iridescent' interludes), the band switched up the rotations for Act I once again, whipping out 'Points Of Authority' (normally only played in Set C), 'Stained' for a second show in a row at the start of the show, and 'Crawling,' returning for the first time in three shows. The rest of the set proceeded as expected, with 'Lies Greed Misery' and 'Given Up' in Act II (along with a verse of 'It's Goin' Down' over Mike's solo), 'Good Things Go' in Act III, and 'A Place For My Head' in the encore. Mike continued delivering the deep cuts with his verses, ending the night by whipping out the first verse of 'Reading My Eyes' by Xero during the extended bridge of 'Bleed It Out!' With the band switching up Act I now, it's hard to say exactly what to expect at this show, but if they play things by the books, Minneapolis should be lined up for Set C with the following rotations (as per the set's last appearance in Nashville, Tennessee) : 'Points Of Authority,' 'Crawling,' and 'New Divide' in Act I, 'Castle Of Glass' and 'IGYEIH' (or possibly 'Keys To The Kingdom') in Act II, 'Stained' in Act III, and 'Let You Fade' in Act IV. With 'Stained' becoming comfortable in Act I, it'll be interesting to see what happens in this set if it appears early again! The U.S. has been missing out on some 'Cut The Bridge' action lately, too, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see that song subbed in for 'New Divide' in Act I instead of 'Stained' moving out of its regular spot. 

 

 

Linkin Park's full show at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 25, 2025. The band are absolutely rolling and in-form now that we've reached the halfway point of the tour. Will they continue to shake things up in Minnesota?

 

Who's going to the show? LPLive gear guru and walking Linkin Park encyclopedia Astat will be attending, so if you see him be sure to say hi! Jean Dawson will be opening the show yet again, so if you can arrive early be sure not to miss him! Weatherman Rogue Soul here to report a nice summer day is ahead for Minneapolis, with highs at a brisk 76°F and down to a brisk 60°F in the evening. It'll be prime weather for a concert, but maybe bring a hoodie or sweatshirt with you for once the night is over! After this show, the band continues through the Midwest with shows in Omaha, Nebrasks and Kansas City, Missouri before taking a few days off before resuming the tour in Denver, Colorado.

 

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!

 

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