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RIP Nick. Thank you, man. You're a legend.

Based on some of the clips I watched from this show, the performance didn't feel %100 for obvious reason that it was the first show of the tour after a couple months break. There's a lot of room for improvement. CTB over BIO was a brilliant choice. GTG felt a little underwhelming. Lost full version was lovely (I hope someone does a mix of the live piano and studio version). Two Faced should've been played either in Act 1 or before OSC. Not a fan of its current placement. I still think that they should open the show with HITC instead of SIB. Anyway, it was the very first show so it's too soon to judge, but I hope we see more rotations throughout the tour. I'd hate them to take the 2014/15 route of barely changing anything.

Thank you so much! This was so cool to watch. The band's 2003/2004 shows in general are absolutely fantastic.

I love that they extended their show length to two hours, allowing them to play more songs. I hope they start their 2025 shows playing as many FZ songs as possible so they can find out which songs sound better live and fans are more into, therefore the setlist improves faster as the tours go on. For example, I'm not a fan of Cut The Bridge as much, but I think it would sound really good live, and the opposite for IGYEIH. I could be wrong, though.

Inception Intro 01. Heavy Is The Crown 02. ROTATION [ Don't Stay (Foreword Intro) / From The Inside / Somewhere I Belong ] 03. ROTATION [ Lying From You (Ext. Intro w/ Rap Verse) / Points Of Authority (Ext. Intro w/ Rap Verse) ] 04. Two Faced 05. New Divide (Moscow Intro) 06. The Emptiness Machine Creation Intro 07. The Catalyst (Shortened) 08. Burn It Down 09. Waiting For The End (2024 Intro) 10. Castle Of Glass 11. ROTATION [ Overflow / Good Things Go ] 12. Joe Solo 13. When They Come For Me/Remember The Name (Mashup) 14. ROTATION [ Casualty / IGYEIH ] 15. ROTATION [ A Place For My Head / Keys To The Kingdom ] 16. One Step Closer (Reanimated Bridge; Ext. Outro) Collapse Transition 17. Lost (Piano Version; Shortened) 18. ROTATION [ Breaking The Habit (Piano Start) / Crawling (Piano Start) ] 19. What I've Done (Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) Kintsugi Transition 20. Leave Out All The Rest (2017 Version; 'Iridescent' Intro Sample) 21. ROTATION [ My December (Acoustic) / Final Masquerade (Acoustic) ] 22. Over Each Other 23. Numb ('Numb/Encore' Intro) 24. In The End 25. ROTATION [ Faint (Ext. Outro) / Bleed It Out (Ext. Bridge w/ Rap Verse; Ext. Outro w/ Guitar Solo) ] Resolution Intro 26. Papercut (2024 Intro) 27. ROTATION (Cut The Bridge / Lost In The Echo) 28. ROTATION [ Bleed It Out (Ext. Bridge w/ Rap Verse; Ext. Outro w/ Guitar Solo) / Faint (Ext. Outro) ]

That is absolutely amazing! The whole world watches that game. Hopefully someone's favorite team here gets to the finals. Mine (Chelsea) is in the Conference League this year lol.

They've already said they're thinking about adding From The Inside to the setlist. I just hope we get a THP rotation slot, just something from THP that's not Wastelands for god's sake. I think Emily would sound great on Guilty All The Same, Rebellion, or Final Masquerade. Also more songs from From Zero. I'd like them to play all the songs from the new album in some capacity in the upcoming shows. It's your new album and the songs aren't that long, you should be playing them. I would also put Somewhere I Belong, Breaking The Habit, and Given Up to minimum number of performances. I'm not saying they should drop them, because they're fan favorites and something like Given Up really gets the crowd excited, but at least put them in a rotation spot where they don't have to play them at every show. I like Somewhere I Belong, but not a fan of it as an opener. I remember Mike's Post Traumatic tour setlists being very interesting because each show had a different one and their own surprises, I hope they could implement something like that for LP shows as well, even though it would be a challenge because of the production stuff. Also, bring back What I've Done extended guitar solo and Points Of Authority's MTM era intro or something like that which we would get a different verse by Mike on every show.

Good Things Go I like GTG a bit more, but TEM is a better song imo

IGYEIH

IGYEIH This song needs to be added to the setlist as soon as possible. Based on the numbers, one of the most underrated songs of the album. Probably the song with the most Dead Sara vibes. Emily's vocal range and performance on it is amazing. She's gonna kill it live.

Overflow Not a fan of the first verse. Mike's part on it sounds cringe to me. The same problem I have with the bridge on Cut The Bridge. They really should've cut the bridge on that song.

Most people compare Emily and Alex to like some of the best performances of Brad and Chester. They had off-days as well. We as hardcore fans have seen a lot of it, but most casual fans have only watched like top LP performances from their prime days. No one can compete with prime Chester.

Casualty I missed a day and my dear HITC is out! This is some serious shit!

Casualty I like Stained a little bit more only because it makes me nostalgic for late 2000s, early 2010s pop songs.

Over Each Other It grows on you the more you listen to it, but still a meh song. It's a pretty alright song. Live version is way better than the studio version, I guess that's the case with LP songs co-written by Jon Green. Not a bad song at all, but can't put it above any of the remaining tracks.

Cut The Bridge Possibly Emily's weakest performance on the record, in my opinion. Mike's singing in the bridge gets progressively more cringe. The similarity to Bleed It Out is very obvious but the drums really remind me of Talking To Myself, and I don't like the drums on Talking To Myself.

From Zero (Intro) Definitely the worst track on the album and one of the worst in LP's discography. No guitars, no drums, no rapping, no screaming, no cowbells, nothing. And they put someone's random voice clip on it, and even that is incomplete. Disaster of a song. Also, zero creativity on the title. Just "Intro"? In parenthesis? Really? Man, this band have sold out so hard. Been a Linking Park fan since 1994 and their last good album was Hybrid Theory EP.

They have two of the most popular bands on the scene for support acts, Spiritbox and Architects, on some of the shows, which are both insanely good live. Might give LP a run for their money. I wish we could get a LP/BMTH tour at some point. It would be absolutely insane.

They have two of the most popular bands on the scene for support acts, Spiritbox and Architects, on some of the shows, which are both insanely good live. Might give LP a run for their money. I wish we could get a LP/BMTH tour at some point. It would be absolutely insane.

Beautiful performance. When they first debuted the setlist, I was a little bit against My December on it and wanted the acoustic version of Final Masquerade instead. But now after watching the shows, I hope it stays on the set for the rest of the touring cycle.

I'm not sure if such thread or post exists, but it would be great if we could have a list of all these little easter eggs in the album at one place.

How much do big festivals usually pay the headliners?

Wow, that's such a great observation. I didn't think of it that way when I was putting the list together. I guess I must be really into openers and closers. My mindset was to pick songs that get me going every time I play them. Like they get me excited and want to do something, go somewhere, or just dance to them (honorable mention: Points Of Authority). Well, except for TLTGYA which always gets me relaxed.

To me, it's not a bad song at all, it's just way below the standard I have for a Linkin Park song, not for a song in general. With Chester's passing, everything surrounding OML got very sad and dark. I see a lot of fans don't wanna revisit that time by listening to those songs. The same thing seems to be apparent with the band as well, since they're not playing anything from that album (Friendly Fire doesn't really count). The negativity that the fan response to Heavy brought to the mix fuels that sadness even more. All the arguments online, some people saying the song is shit and some other people trying to defend its creative direction. I understand the band wanted to reach a wider audience with Heavy and the album in general, but in doing so, a lot of people who were already their fans lost faith in their music. Every album since MTM had fans feeling "betrayed" in a way, but OML was just in another level. You could barely defend it as a fan. Let's just be real here, OML is LP's weakest album. I've been seeing a lot of rankings on the FZ discussion thread. Don't get me wrong, it's a very good album on its own, but in comparison, not that good. Now nearly 8 years later, nobody seems to care about Heavy anymore. I don't even know where Kiiara is and what she's doing anymore. It was a generic pop song, well guess what, you hear those almost everyday. There are way better pop songs coming out all the time. There are people who have already forgotten that song exists, and there are people including me who don't wanna revisit that era of Linkin Park because of everything that happened.

$500 is insane! Sad for the fans that were planning to see them. What's up with these Las Vegas festivals? I always see a lot of controversies surrounding them online. First the When We Were Young one (I don't remember what it actually was, but I remember there were a lot of unhappy talks about it online) and now the cancellation of Sick New World. Also if I'm not mistaken, this was gonna be LP's only show in Vegas next year, right? Do you guys think they would add a show to the tour (perhaps for summer) to make up for this one?