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The band has quietly updated their web store with 6 new pairs of socks and a new heat-changing From Zero mug.
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2026 seems like a great year for China, India, Australia, New Zealand, and another Europe run since they are in such high demand there compared to the rest of the world. All of that seems really doable with giving them more downtime than 2025, allowing time for them to relax and write music. Just three outings like that would take 1/4 of the year time-wise, if that long.
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Mike hopped on Discord on the 19th of February for the first time in a few months and offered a few interesting bits of information for fans. He stayed in the chat about an hour and a half. Highlights are below, in order: Asked by a fan about Linkin Park's stage being so tall in Brazil, he had a series of messages saying: "I think it was because it was a big crowd, like 60,000 or something", "The stage was enormous. It took forever to walk down any of the catwalks", " Yeah, the production team decided to make the whole thing bigger. It’s going to be fun to do some variety this year. Some big stages in Europe. Some arena stages (we play in the middle, like 2024) in the US later this year", All the stage layouts are good, to me", "We don’t usually make the stages super high off the ground, but in some countries that’s what they recommend (or it’s what they have to do)", and "Might be “standard” materials, might be available stage materials, might be that it needs to be tall because of what goes under it, might be safety. I’m not really sure." In response to a meme about incorrect lyrics for 'Good Things Go' on Twitter, Mike said: Someone said that every performance Chester did live was perfect, to which Mike said, "lol yeah totally" and elaborated: and The chat shifted to comments on Linkin Park performing live, and someone asked jokingly if the band would perform upside down if they played in Australia. Along with a few other comments on Australia, Mike chimed in: He got on the topic of song requests in the chat, with people asking for their favorite song: He added he isn't a hater of Taylor Swift and he saw the Eras tour which was great, he ran into Munky from Korn the other day at Starbucks and says he doesn't know him well but that he's a good dude, and says he likes Poppy: "I like Poppy. I’ve known about her since way back when she did the weird youtube stuff. that was great" About other One More Light songs in the show besides 'Friendly Fire': He said the show setlist is a mix of fan favorites + band favorites. He joked about cutting Crawling and adding Blackout: He concluded by saying Emily likes both Blackout and Lies Greed Misery: Source: Discord [From:MikeShinoda]
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Feel the same about Joe, he's doing more now than in the past 20 years on stage. Great to hear about Dave.
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They are definitely doing this, wouldn't be worried about a Berlin 2014 situation. This is going to theaters and they already had the deal booked which is why they could put the logos on the stream for the companies they'll be partnering with doing it. Probably summer release. Wouldn't be surprising if it's anytime between March and July.
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By the end of 2025 with all of these shows they have booked, they will sound much better than 2024. And it isn't like 2024 even sounded bad, it's a great comeback. They will just get that much better with experience playing together and working on the songs. Overflow already is a monster song live. Excited to see what happens with the sets this year.
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It doesn't seem likely that it will pop up but this is a good opportunity to squeeze Lost in the Echo in on the tour leg.
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It's not just you - the earlier songs are really off with the guitar. It's Points, Papercut, OSC, Lying From You, those heavy early songs. Either Alex is off or the amps are off. He fixed APFMH in 2025. Having hope the rest can be improved. You can hear it immediately on Points. In-person at the first show back it was VERY noticeable with him and it's driven me crazy every time I've seen them since.
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What is the show intro they used before Inception? Full show:
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We started doing it eons ago - maybe it's worth a revisit. In 2003-2004, the only things you'd notice wrong in a show would be a Numb intro from Mike or something. Then Joe. On the Honda Civic Tour in 2012 Joe messed up Numb like 3 shows in a row and on the 4th, Mike turned around and said something to him before the song started lol It's not trying to be mean, it's just a note on the show. It happened in Mexico. There is no way to accurately track Alex and Phoenix playing something incorrectly. If Mike and Emily forget the words to something, we try to add that too. It's just a note on the show, nothing against any band members or anything.
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Great swap with POA instead of Crawling. No point to keep Crawling around so much if Emily is letting the crowd sing so much of it. Make that a Hybrid Theory rotation spot and throw in another song - Runaway? Tokyo shows looked quite fun for the band. Love Keys getting some plays. Hard to believe no Hunting Party or One More Light songs have been played in Japan outside of the Mike/Chester piano TV performance until now with Keys. That's wild. The guitar on Points is still off... it feels... "clunky" from Alex but he got APFMH under control so there is hope for Points.