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I fully understand what you're saying since I'm living in the middle east and seeing all the terrible shit with my own eyes. The issues here are way too deep and fucked up that we could talk about them for weeks and it still wouldn't be enough. Human rights mean nothing to those murderers at the top. Hopefully this post here won't be used against me at the court if I get arrested for political reasons! (don't worry i'm joking... but am i?)

Exactly. I'd love to go to that show. Geographically, it's the closest they get to where I live (Iran), but the traveling costs here are insane, let alone the tickets and hotels. Third world sucks lol.

Someone else has uploaded as well. Cuts the stuff before the show. EDIT: The audio still seems to be a little out of sync. I didn't watch the show live. Was it like this on the stream as well?

Yeah, shitty government. As a middle eastern myself, I'm too familiar with that. It sucks more than you'd know. But I'm so happy for the LP fans in the area to get the opportunity to see them for the very first time.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO. It completely elevated the song to my top 3 From Zero songs. I love it when I see them having fun. Not every music video has to be serious and have deep concepts behind it. Sometimes you just need to go crazy and have fun.

They should've picked Stained as the single instead of Over Each Other. I love Stained.

I spent the entirety of yesterday listening to the album. It's so fun to listen to. It has some kind of raw but complete vibe I get from some LPU demos. I'm gonna keep it short and simple for each track: 01. From Zero (Intro): This was interesting and fun, got even more interesting when I played the album on repeat, since the ending of the album leads into the beginning of this track. I like how it abruptly ends. Explains the reason they named the album From Zero in the best way. 02. The Emptiness Machine: Best song on the album. It's just perfect. Now I fully get why they picked it as the lead single. 03. Cut The Bridge: Mike's verses are great. Has Bleed It Out vibes. Wanna dance to it. Not a big fan of Emily's performance on it though. 04. Heavy Is The Crown: Tons of energy. Meteora vibes all over it. 05. Over Each Other: Such a mid song. It's just there. Nothing bad, nothing mind-blowing. 06. Casualty: They went fucking crazy on this. Emily's screams get better as the song keeps going. The intro scream isn't as good as the rest of the song. 07. Overflow: My least favorite song on the record. But I appreciate the experimentation with the sounds and melodies, which were kinda' missing in this album. Nice cooldown after Casualty. 08. Two Faced: What a throwback. If HITC is Meteora, this one's definitely Hybrid Theory. Loved it. 09. Stained: A surprise favorite of mine. It's maybe the best Linkin Pop song they've ever done. Reminds me of early 2010s pop songs. Emily's voice is soooo good on this. 10. IGYEIH: One of Emily's best performances. Gave me a lot of Dead Sara vibes. She nails this song. 11. Good Things Go: Hits you right in the feels. Man I wish songs in OML were like this one. Both Mike and Emily were showing off on this one; Mike with his improved confidence and Emily with her range. Beautiful song. I would rank it as my 7th favorite LP album right above OML. It's a fun album and I think the band would have a lot of fun performing it on stage. To me, this record's challenge was new members and the return, so musically, I won't be too hard on it. However, it gives me hope that they would do better on the next record, because on this one, all I saw was potential. Give the songs a bit more time and space to let them shine. Some are too short and they're over right as you're really getting into them. A little bit of guitar solo or technical riffs wouldn't hurt either.

Considering this version and the Worlds24 intro, Heavy Is The Crown in my opinion should either open the set or encore. They give some exciting cinematic vibes.

I love watching their shows in Brazil. The proshot from 2012 is one of my favorites to watch. I hope the quality and mixing is good so everyone can share shit ton of clips on social media. Also hoping for a great performance by Emily and the rest of the band. Maybe it will change some people's perception since a lot of people have only watched the September 5th show.

Mike could just come in and do the chorus of RTN anywhere in the set and everyone will be fine with it. It's like an item in the checklist. If they're gonna keep POA in the set, bring back its MTM era intro/outro or maybe modernize it in a way. That shit was goated. Mike could rap all kinds of shit on it. Mike's new solo on its own is great but I wish it had a part where he could do different verses over. Like the 2017 Castle Of Glass or 2014 Mike Solo (until he got lazy and just kept doing RTN verses).

I just hope that this would open the door for more deep cuts to be played in rotations or get their live debut. Especially for songs from THP or LT, such as Powerless, War, Mark The Graves, I'll Be Gone (which I think Emily would sound amazing on all of them). I'd love to see a couple slots in the setlist for deep cuts rotation in each tour. I hope they keep having fun with the setlist and the shows so we would get more exciting stuff like AFN debut. This 2024 tour has been a really great experience for the band and the fans to adjust. 2025 is gonna be a monster year if things go as good as they have been so far.

I'm so happy they finally played All For Nothing, and what a better way to play it with Page. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a one-and-done thing since Helmet happened to be on the lineup. Very cool moment, but a decade too late in my opinion. The performance was good but the song doesn't hit as much as it used to when it first came out. Happy for everyone who got to see that in person. Casualty sounds sick as fuck. I can't wait to listen to the studio version. The way the song started immediately reminded me of Keys To The Kingdom. Clearly a pit song. Kinda' weird getting that pit going in the middle of a Linkin Park set, since we've been used to that part being mostly the mellow part, but I love it. Every song from this album so far feels like it has things from previously released songs which makes them easier to connect with fans. Not a fan of saying stuff like "this song is a mixture of MTM with LT blah blah blah", but this one feels more like THP-ish.

I really like the art direction of this album. LP has always been good with these type of stuff. Kudos to Frank.

I like that they didn't drop any of the songs and just simply added OEO to the setlist.

I'm no singer, but I think for some singers, it might be kinda' hard to go %100 when you're performing only one song. I remember even Chester didn't perform very well in some of the Awards shows performances. Nevertheless, that was such a fantastic performance. By the way, not only they should keep that intro, I think HITC should open the sets from now on. It makes more sense to me to open the shows for the new album with a song from that album instead of something from 20 years ago.

Since they started playing KTTK, I kept thinking about how Emily would sound on War or MTG. Maybe not this year since there aren't many shows, but when they go proper touring I hope we see a lot of rotations with many different songs being played, not only singles. I know doing that is hard since there's a lot of stage production and lighting involved, beside that they need to practice all those songs, but one can still hope. As a person who's not able to go to the shows, I can't give much opinions on which songs they should drop, but I think most people would agree that Given Up has to go, or maybe be put in a rotation spot with two other songs like POA and LFY. We already have HITC as the song where Emily can showcase her screaming abilities (not counting potential ones such as Casualty).

With that many listening parties, I'll have zero guilt listening to the leak as soon as it pops up!

Haven't heard of this NRJ Music Awards before. How big is it? Is it more like a French thing?

Great episode. I like that they don't wait long to post the Making Of after the music video release. Extremely happy to not only have LPTVs back, but also back on a very consistent basis.

That was really great. I know it might be difficult to get everything together to record an episode, but hopefully you'll do more of these. It's fun listening to something like this that not only recaps things that's happened in the LP world, but also the reactions from the fans and the media as well. Thank you guys so much for all you do.

I don't know maybe it's just a me thing, but I always have a very very very high expectations and standards for a Linkin Park song. I want every song they put out make me question if it's my favorite LP song ever or not. I know it sounds unrealistic and crazy. Over Each Other is not a bad song at all. It's not great, but not a bad one, in my opinion. Not a favorite, but I still like it. I just have this feeling that it could be better. It could sound better. Not necessarily heavier or things like that, but I feel like the song is missing things. I'm not a musician so I don't know how it could be better. It's just a feeling, you know. I don't know if it makes sense or not.

The song is pretty meh to me. Nothing bad about it, but nothing special either. Very generic. Out of the 3 songs released so far, I'd rank this as #4. However, the ending got me very excited for Casualty. So in an interesting way, the song has made me more excited for the album, even though I don't like it as much. Fingers crossed for a good music video.

Speaking of live EP, I hope they would release something like From Zero Live next year of at the end of the touring cycle, the same thing they did with OML Live. Releasing that live album was one of the best decisions this band has ever made. Good quality of the performances of all the songs from the album, alongside some classics. They're really putting a lot of effort this time with things that have proven to be popular with fans (LPTVs, live footages, etc.). I hope they keep feeding us well.

This release gave me a reason to go back and listen to some Dead By Sunrise again. Some songs that I loved back in the day don't hit the same, but some that I didn't like as much sound a lot better to me now. However, I still dislike GMYN, Condemned, and EOTW and skip them when listening to the album.

I don't think they would do it, but I'd love to see Noah from Bad Omens pop up on the stage with the band on one of the songs. I think he would sound fantastic on HT or Meteora tracks.