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The Let Down from the Katrina benefit is acoustic of course but is the same style demo Chester recorded at Ryan's studio that they used in this demo in the video. It would be nice to hear both on the release.

They really messed up on Primo. But, LT is all condensed songs - it reallyy doesn't make sense to throw Primo in the middle of it. It's an ATS-style jam. What a fork in the road to encounter... you have a 6 minute song but everything else on the album is short and you didn't pick the song for the previous album. But it's a great song, so what do you do? I'd probably vote to put it on LT as it is, and it'd be a big stand out track. Similarly if you did that, you could have had the long Tinfoil/Powerless track too. "It was a really old demo, TINFOIL is the intro of it, and it turned into this epic 6 minute long thing." Glad we got the song... imagine if there are more songs like Primo sitting on the shelf. Re: Let You Fade. The original demo sounds pretty....lackluster. They really got this right with the final version which kicks ass on the deluxe edition. Let You Fade is a banger. The acoustic one does sound interesting and would be nice to hear one day but in this case they hit a home run on the song. It's similar to a Messenger-style ATS ending (still think Symphonies of Light Reprise would have been cool after Messenger, in the same realm).

Take a look at the LPTV for "Let You Fade" and check out all of the various versions the song went through before the band settled on the final!

Really have always felt that way too. They are very authentic/genuine. Could listen to them talk about Chester and DBS all day, they are always so nice to fans and extremely respectful. Just total class. And have always wanted more music to come out.

When they say four songs, this is before UFTB was created from scratch It is October 2024 in this for the "batch of four songs." UFTB LPTV says December 2024 for "the new song." So they wrote after Brad and Mike talked, a brand new song. The other 2 songs besides Unshatter and Let You Fade are unknown, but they could be Counting Stars and/or Breathing Underwater. Aren't those literally the only other 2 we know from the From Zero era? There must be a ton of songs we have no clue about.

Julien-K (Ryan, Amir, Fu, Galen) recently decided to celebrate Chester's birthday by doing something they have wanted to do for a long time - do a deep dive into a Dead By Sunrise song in ProTools. This is something they have mentioned previously that they wanted to do but weren't sure what the right timing or platform was. Fortunately, their Patreon ended up being perfect and they streamed a Zoom call with their Patreon members, took questions from fans, and spoke for over an hour and a half about the song. In this behind-the-scenes look at the song, they pull up the very first Let Down recording they made. This was the song that started the project for them.... the true very beginning of it all. As the story goes which a lot of you are already familiar with - Chester recorded acoustic guitar and vocals for the song and then gave it to Julien-K who pretty much overnight created a full demo, which is what they show on Patreon. It has elements in the demo that didn't make the final version (the break before the bridge), fun electronic elements, even a Led Zeppelin nod on the drums, and some really cool parts. Chester's original acoustic guitar plus Amir's 12 string guitar both make appearances in the demo. Watch along as they tell the story of Dead By Sunrise, go deep into the song, and show us a glimpse at a fully-unreleased version of Let Down! And good news for those who are interested... they say they want to do this for more songs. Information-wise, this is the most info on Dead By Sunrise in one sitting in a VERY long time and we're excited to watch this over and over to help formulate the song page and pick up these tiny bits in the song that we may have not noticed originally. Of note in the middle of the stream, Amir mentions that there will be a 2027 Dead By Sunrise Rarities release for Record Store Day. He mentions unreleased Chester song seeds from 2005 that were never developed, the 20 Eyes cover, and other rare tracks. He and Fu have been working on compiling songs to go through for this release for years, and it sounds like the reception from fans about the Out of Ashes anniversary release was quite positive, which included the acoustic live songs. A big thank you to Ryan, Amir, Fu, and Galen for putting this together for fans!

With just a few LPTVs left for the album, Linkin Park has released the "making of" LPTV for "Unshatter", off of From Zero's Deluxe Edition! We see the song being written with Jake Torrey (Overflow, Good Things Go) in 2023 and then a glimpse into Octover 2024 after the band's initial, short comeback tour of them working more on the song.

For many reasons we decided to not do this and include the bonus tracks as a part of the main album. The reason being is that Unshatter and Let You Fade were completed AFTER From Zero was released. Bonus tracks on other albums like Hybrid Theory - My December for example was written and released after Hybrid Theory. Lost is from Meteora, no doubt, I agree with you. We made the decision to not include songs in the general groupings of albums unless they are on the main studio release. If they play Fighting Myself, it was also completed in 2022/2023, so that isn't an accurate song to say it's from Meteora.... there are too many scenarios to group things like that. We did the original album only and that's accurate.

The lighting truly is great. This angle from the back of the arena really allows you to hear well how sick Emily is. She's very under the weather, which is what her friend Lisa said on socials. Hats off for still playing the show.

We are sad to report that it's already time for the last show of the tour for Linkin Park! This will be the last show before the final leg of the From Zero World Tour and it takes place in none other than Auckland, New Zealand, where Linkin Park has performed four previous times. Auckland is the only city in New Zealand that Linkin Park has performed in, but it would not surprise us in the future if they started to branch out as other popular artists have done to cities like Christchurch, Dunedin, or Wellington. So far, they have sold out a majority of their shows at Spark Arena. The first LP show in Auckland came on the 2001 US-to-Europe Tour that we've talked about in all of the show threads so far this tour. We don't really know too much about the show but a review says that Chester performed "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction in the show, which was a cover he was performing at the time. It would be at the very end of this tour, in London, when he brought out "The Morning After", the first appearance at an LP show of his famous solo song that went on to become a bonus track on the Dead By Sunrise Out of Ashes album. Unfortunately, the band didn't return in 2003 when they played Livid Festival so it was until Minutes to Midnight six and a half years later when they could get back to New Zealand. They announced a show at Vector Arena (now Spark Arena) in 2007, selling it out in under five minutes. A second night was added beforehand (so, the new show became the first show of the tour) and LP was able to get in two shows! The 2007 shows are actually pretty great - we listened to these and updated the show pages in December ahead of this tour; you'll definitely love these if you give them a listen. The night 2 show especially rocks! You know how Linkin Park in this era will sometimes perform 2 shows in the same city, especially on this Australian leg? But in Europe, South America, even some North American cities now too. That wasn't common back in the day. In fact, outside of performing 3 nights at Tokyo's Budokan in 2003 (which are LEGENDARY LP shows), the band did not headline the same city for multiple nights from 2001 to 2007 until Auckland 2007. They went on to play two shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Saitama, London, and Las Vegas on the tour for Minutes to Midnight. That really kickstarted LP being able to do that - their third album. But hey, anytime we can mention Tokyo 2003, we can and on that note, if you want to listen to one of the best LP shows of all time, here you go in great quality. Back in the day, before we had three albums, way before we had the modern day LP, before social media as it is now... we had amazing shows like this. Sadly, the A Thousand Suns Tour skipped Auckland in 2010 although two shows were rumored again at the arena. With Canberra being announced just a few weeks before the show over in Australia, it looks like the shows in Auckland just didn't work out for some reason. But we've seen the crew itinerary - they had two shows penciled in for A Thousand Suns. What a shame they didn't make it over for the album. 2013 ended up having the next show, the 8th LPU Summit, in Auckland. Bringing along Stone Sour to open the show (we're jealous), LP treated fans to a five song soundcheck that they actually livestreamed for LPU fans across the world. The three album songs from that soundcheck included a rare "Castle of Glass", and then "Lost in the Echo" and "Victimized (w/ QWERTY)". That's not bad! We would love the LPU Summits to return one day! Well, that headline setlist rocked in Auckland in 2013 and that brings us up to speed with the LP history in New Zealand. We'll see what the future has to offer, but this show sold out VERY quickly (under 2 hours) and we think they know they can easily play two shows there again now. The band's last show in Sydney for night 2, wrapping up the Australian leg, was really good. And by that, we mean we got a major highlight in "Leave Out All The Rest" returning for the first time since Sao Paulo, Brazil 2024! What a surprise! With Emily still sick and LP playing 25 song sets for the time being, altering the set for her vocals, it makes sense to get a song in with Mike singing a majority of lead vocals. Let's hope the song sticks around for Auckland and Europe, because of course that's a big song on MTM and fans love it. Alex had this to say on Instagram about the song after playing it: Check out the Sydney night 2 setlist, which has some cool notes: - "From the Inside" at the third show in a row. - "Lying From You" makes it back-to-back shows. - "Over Each Other" in a rare Act 1 appearance for the first time. - Mike rapped 28,000 verses on his solo medley. No, for real - check it out. It was in response to @BroodingAnanas on Twitter saying he was doing a lot of the same verses recently (which actually is true), and he decided to mash-up a lot of them at once on a LONG medley - "Step Up", "It's Goin' Down" (with a member of The X-Ecutioners in attendance!), "Until It Breaks", "When They Come For Me", and "Lift Off". That's not bad. Could we see a few more mashups of multiple verses? That'd be pretty fun, right? Bring on Auckland, bring on another "Leave Out All The Rest" performance, and whatever else the band has to offer. This tour has rocked because the energy has been off the charts with both the band and crowd, but the amount of fun/unique songs has been HIGH lately. We've seen "Unshatter", "Let You Fade", "Keys to the Kingdom", and "Leave Out All The Rest" all return in Australia. Auckland holds the honor of being the band's last show before the final leg of the From Zero World Tour in Europe. Things are ending sooner than we want them to, and you need to get a show in before the end of June if you want to see a From Zero show. As much as we'd like them to keep touring to areas they haven't visited yet - southeast Asia, China, Ireland, South Africa, etc... LP is quite anxious to get back into the studio and have already started writing and recording new music. We're excited for the last show of the tour and can't wait to see what goes down in Auckland! Best wishes to Emily and we hope she gets well soon! Let's rock one more time down under and we'll turn our attention to Europe next.

Mike and the singer are the only reason they'd cancel shows. Unless Yoshi the new drum tech can't fill in for Colin. We have never had a situation in which Rob cannot play. He injured himself and they dropped Rebellion, I think around the Mexico 2015 shows @JZLP-Benningstrong but Rob always played. Unsure on new bass tech for Dave, but he was with RHCP for eons so he probably knows music. Joe has a new tech. The new techs aren't as road tested with LP as the OG lineup ones, as some of those techs were around forever. Ben for sure can do anything though, he was lead for Fall Out Boy for over an entire tour, played 3 shows with LP (almost Russia 2014 too) and said to us he knows the entire setlist+all songs since 2024 LP has played live in case he needs to fill in. Ben is the best bet lol

Mike just said the song title and idea existed since then, but that was a different demo.

They played Heavy is the Crown night 2 though, Sydney still got it.