Linkin Park Launches New Year of LPU

[martinez]

LPUnderground members can now extend the account for another year. The members with -Legacy- status on their accounts - if for some reason you can't re-new your membership now, remember to do it within 60 days, after that time you will lose your -Legacy- status permanently.

 

Also, there is a pre-order of the new LPU 2025-2026 Member Bundle. The bundle includes:

 

•  LPU LIMITED EDITION PREMIUM ZINE VOLUME II 
•  LPU 35MM FILM DISPOSABLE CAMERA
•  LPU 25-26 MEMBERSHIP LANYARD

•  LPU 25-26 MEMBERSHIP LAMINATE

 

More details:

 

For the 2025-2026 membership year, the Member Bundle will include Volume II of the LPU Zine, capturing never-before-seen moments from the From Zero World Tour. The 60-page soft-cover 9” x 12” zine will feature photography, artwork, notes from the band, customizable pages, and a sticker sheet with a randomly selected band member guitar pick. Fill the LPU Zine with your own memories: find blank pages to insert photos from your LPU disposable film camera or favorite concert moment shot on your phone.

 

Let us know what you think about the new bundle and if you are going to re-new your membership.

 

Source: LPU.com | Store

[thigolpbr]

LPU was cool when they released songs.

[Alexonlyalex]

It has to be a joke.....No meet and greets, no music, very shitty f-tier website, took them over 9 months to enable Discord integration to a LPU Channel with mods on constant powertrips. Only "value" is a chance to give them big cash on ticket pre-sales before anybody else does....and now this shitty bundle. They really need to do better than this, considering for whom this fan club was made for.

[leftshoe18]

I wouldn't be surprised if Warner is preventing them from releasing music with the fan club. The box sets make money, and they likely want to save exclusive tracks for that.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

LPU lost its spirit, it's just a way to pay more for our tickets being honest the only benefit is the Early entry which i don't really care im.not interested in spending 8 hours waiting.

 

LPU doesn't makes sense anymore probably the only thing that was cool was the meet and greets, meeting the band was such a unique and cool experience, my signatures are a treasure.

 

Not sure why they are not interested in doing meet and greets and if they ever comeback mark my words that they will add it to a exclusive super expensive VIP ticket.

 

The CD will never comeback they are not interested in releasing old demos w Chester.

Edited Saturday at 02:12 AM by JZLP-Benningstrong

[Stranger]

24 minutes ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

The CD will never comeback they are not interested in releasing old demos w Chester.

 

"they" as in the band or Warner? 👀  LPU is also controlled by Warner. do you think the band purposely doing this? hell no. surely the label guy plan to keep this thing running annually cuz it makes money. but as usual, keep the blame on the band is the easier way to do.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

32 minutes ago, Stranger said:

 

"they" as in the band or Warner? 👀  LPU is also controlled by Warner. do you think the band purposely doing this? hell no. surely the label guy plan to keep this thing running annually cuz it makes money. but as usual, keep the blame on the band is the easier way to do.

 

for sure, its their band and mike is a control freak, he's part of every big decision plus Brad is involved in everything behind the scenes.

 

dont you remember who used to choose the tracks for LPU? 

[AParallelogramInTheSand]

Was the yellow and black image included in the teaser photos last year or is it new? 

 

[thigolpbr]

1 hour ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

LPU lost its spirit, it's just a way to pay more for our tickets being honest the only benefit is the Early entry which i don't really care im.not interested in spending 8 hours waiting.

 

LPU doesn't makes sense anymore probably the only thing that was cool was the meet and greets, meeting the band was such a unique and cool experience, my signatures are a treasure.

 

Not sure why they are not interested in doing meet and greets and if they ever comeback mark my words that they will add it to a exclusive super expensive VIP ticket.

 

The CD will never comeback they are not interested in releasing old demos w Chester.

I think we will only see new demos and shows with Chester in 2027 at MTM20.

[Stranger]

1 hour ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

dont you remember who used to choose the tracks for LPU? 

 

the band choose the tracks, but who's approved it? the label. simple as that. as long as the band with Warner Records, it's gonna be the hard way.

[martinez]

It has to be different reason why they don't release any LPU albums also since 2017 to 2020 when there was  no any 20 anniversary, they simply could go with just instrumental

demos or do something different.

 

Totally don't get the argument "because Warner want to put those stuff on 20 anniversary releases" - yeah let's say they will find something extra cool and more polished, ok so leave that for any 20 anniver. and put on LPU less polished version of it, maybe without vocals etc, like they did it with "Cumulus" vs "More The Victim". They did like that over the years, what did changed to prevent them from doing it? Maybe they don't have that amount of stuff anymore? Maybe there is something we don't know?

[Alexonlyalex]

1 hour ago, martinez said:

It has to be different reason why they don't release any LPU albums also since 2017 to 2020 when there was  no any 20 anniversary, they simply could go with just instrumental

demos or do something different.

 

Totally don't get the argument "because Warner want to put those stuff on 20 anniversary releases" - yeah let's say they will find something extra cool and more polished, ok so leave that for any 20 anniver. and put on LPU less polished version of it, maybe without vocals etc, like they did it with "Cumulus" vs "More The Victim". They did like that over the years, what did changed to prevent them from doing it? Maybe they don't have that amount of stuff anymore? Maybe there is something we don't know?

https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/Hybrid_Party_Of_A_Thousand_Things

 

Just by judging this alone, running out of stuff will never be a valid reason. And I am sure its just a fracture off some leftover gear, there are tons and tons and tons of things to share. At this point it's either some twisted "don't oversaturate the market to create artificial scarcity" kind of thing, or they just don't bother anymore / have nobody working on this stuff full time.

[thigolpbr]

7 hours ago, Stranger said:

 

the band choose the tracks, but who's approved it? the label. simple as that. as long as the band with Warner Records, it's gonna be the hard way.

One example is Metallica, which has its own record label and is very independent when it comes to releases.

[thigolpbr]

26 minutes ago, Alexonlyalex said:

https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/Hybrid_Party_Of_A_Thousand_Things

 

Just by judging this alone, running out of stuff will never be a valid reason. And I am sure its just a fracture off some leftover gear, there are tons and tons and tons of things to share. At this point it's either some twisted "don't oversaturate the market to create artificial scarcity" kind of thing, or they just don't bother anymore / have nobody working on this stuff full time.

I've always thought about that.

Let's think about
HT20 and M20.
They have all the demos and instrumentals that came out on the LPs, right?
So they gave us some new stuff too, okay?

We know there are still some demos from the Xero era, the Hybrid Theory Band era, so we didn't get them.

Meteora probably left out some stuff, maybe A.06 with Chester's vocals, and some more that we don't know about.

Now let's move on to the recorded shows:

We had 3 shows for HT20 and 4 for M20.

Banta has a lot of recorded footage, why doesn't it use the LPU to make it available?

I'm sure the label and the band have all of this digitized.

In fact, after the Universal raid in 2008, all the record labels started digitizing their materials,
both the masters and the audiovisual files.

So it would make sense to have access to something like this.

I know there are some people from the band who see this forum so I hope they see this post and think about it.

[xxHybridXeroxx]

I mean $10 USD a year really isn’t bad for early entry and some of the other perks you get, that’s less than a meal at McDonald’s. but I do miss the older perks such as the CDs and meet and greets a lot. I understand about not bringing M&Gs back, but don’t understand about no new music for the LPU. Some of the demos from the new album that we saw on LPTV over this past year would’ve been really cool to release…

[linkin_boss]

Yeah, the digital pass is good for the pre-sale and early entry, that's pretty useful, especially in places where people may line up extremely early. But the full package is very lackluster. Not gonna lie. Plus the whole thing last year where they put they were adding new features for the lpu passport seems like a false promise at this point, idk if that was just hinting at the discord integration or something else, but if you put something in coming soon, I would expect itnto release before the next yearly subscription renewal.

[Alexonlyalex]

56 minutes ago, linkin_boss said:

Yeah, the digital pass is good for the pre-sale and early entry, that's pretty useful, especially in places where people may line up extremely early. But the full package is very lackluster. Not gonna lie. Plus the whole thing last year where they put they were adding new features for the lpu passport seems like a false promise at this point, idk if that was just hinting at the discord integration or something else, but if you put something in coming soon, I would expect itnto release before the next yearly subscription renewal.

 

My best guess: the apprentice who was assigned to LPU was fired or maybe he found another company and now they have nobody to finish it. Thats the best case, because if THAT was made by anybody with ANY sort of reasonable development experience, then sorry, the person has chosen a wrong job. I could shit out better everything in less than a day. Including the ticketmaster API connection, discord connector and a lpu Music/Video catalogue thats not hosted externally (lmao). Its insulting how bad the LPU experience is, considering it has been created with hardcore fans in mind who often spend thousands of dollars on the band. At this point just drop it, ngl. Just call it LP Concert Pre-Sale Center, charge ten bucks for it, but don't pretend to have a fan club, because it is not a fan club by any measure.

 

 

Sorry guys, but this shit makes me mad af. (and you should mad as well)

Edited Saturday at 11:57 PM by Alexonlyalex

[Rasputin 93]

46 minutes ago, Alexonlyalex said:

 

I could shit out better everything in less than a day. 

Looking forward to your result tomorrow.

[Alexonlyalex]

5 hours ago, Rasputin 93 said:

Looking forward to your result tomorrow.

You paying?

[RentEznor]

I'm paying 9,99$ so I'm not complaining, but I do wish we've had better perks like back then. If they're gonna release any LPU CD it's gonna be new stuff (FZ demos), anything involving Chester makes a crap ton of money so Warner is keeping it for anniversary/compillations only I assume.

Edited Sunday at 01:15 PM by RentEznor

[LeonardoMF93]

Honestly, the LPU lost a lot of its importance with the band’s return.

Back then we had M&Gs, chats, exclusive shirts, forums, etc. Now it’s just a way to get ticket presales and Early Entry.

 

Btw, in the past Early Entry was available to all LPU members. Now, at some shows, Early Entry registration ends in seconds.

 

One phenomenal thing they created for the LPU on this tour was the LPU Pit at shows and unbelievably, now that’s also being sold to non-members.

 

The LPU is terrible. The website is bad.

 

 

On 9/5/2025 at 11:00 PM, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

The CD will never comeback they are not interested in releasing old demos w Chester.

 

The band didn’t want to release more LPU CDs while Chester was still alive. If I’m not mistaken, the LPUX CD only came out because the community kept complaining.

It’s no surprise that they finally decided to abandon the CD project in this new phase, at the same time they’re trying to shift some of the attention away from the old lineup and onto the current one.

[easiertorun03]

It seems like they make more money selling tickets than selling other things like CDs.

[easiertorun03]

To be honest, tickets are very expensive. I wanted to check the prices for LP's show in Madrid in 2026. And to my surprise, the prices were over €100. Obviously, I won't be able to go to my first LP show, since I didn't have any money, and the tickets sold out quickly.

[Stranger]

7 hours ago, LeonardoMF93 said:

It’s no surprise that they finally decided to abandon the CD project in this new phase

 

it will be great and possible for the band to do monthly releases for LPU exclusive tracks just like LPU15. with that way, people have to buy the annual pass to download it. for sure it will leaks but for LPU fans it will be a perks. just like Mike Shinoda's ZIGGURATS.

[ECW2000]

On 9/5/2025 at 10:00 PM, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

LPU lost its spirit, it's just a way to pay more for our tickets being honest the only benefit is the Early entry which i don't really care im.not interested in spending 8 hours waiting.

 

LPU doesn't makes sense anymore probably the only thing that was cool was the meet and greets, meeting the band was such a unique and cool experience, my signatures are a treasure.

 

Not sure why they are not interested in doing meet and greets and if they ever comeback mark my words that they will add it to a exclusive super expensive VIP ticket.

 

The CD will never comeback they are not interested in releasing old demos w Chester.

I agree that the LPU is not the same as it once was, but it still has some benefits. It doesn’t really make sense anymore to do the LPU like in the past, with the advancement in social media, etc. That’s not how most people connect anymore, except for the hardcore fans like on this site, etc. But for most people, people connect with the band through their socials. 
 

The Meet & Greets were cool, yes, but I don’t think the entire band always loved doing them. In 2014, Joe and Brad would often times walk by quickly before the rest of the band signed stuff, at least at the shows I went to, they did. I think Chester was really the reason that they always did them, because he was always saying how much he loved the fans and he even did Meet & Greets at his solo project shows and stuff, too. Mike did too. So I think it was mostly him and Mike would kept them going. Plus, I think they are afraid of people being crazy to Emily and Colin, or Alex. Maybe the new members don’t feel comfortable doing them, and that’s ok. 
 

As far as new LPU music, no point now since they have been doing the box sets. We have MTM and ATS coming up, and we will get demos with those for sure. The band loves those albums.
 

I don’t think it’s a case of the band not wanting to release music with Chester. They will do when the time calls for it. Just look at what we have receieved so far since Chester passed. Some HT stuff, some Meteora stuff, Friendly Fire, etc. We will get more when the time is appropriate to release stuff with him, like MTM 20 and ATS 20, etc. I think they will for sure do those two box sets when the time comes, not sure about later albums after that, but they probably will. That’s far away, though. MTM is only a little under two years and ATS is far away but not a crazy long time. 
 

Plus they gave unreleased From Zero songs on the deluxe of the album, something they never usually did, so we even got unreleased songs with that. Just give it time, and we will get more stuff with Chester, etc.