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Mike didn't say they weren't doing one but he said on Twitch he was unsure if they would do one for every album (which was in response to a question about MTM20, I believe) and also said he really is excited about the 20th anniversary of A Thousand Suns. I think he gave his little speech being humble about "well, we don't know what all exists, if GOOD material exists to even do one, and if there is an appetite for it..." etc.... lol you know damn well we'll buy the hell out of that thing. Still completely unsure if they will do anything for MTM. They SHOULD. What would be really cool is since this is the first "20th anniversary" they actually have a full band for, they do a show somehow in some way. You don't have to do MTM in full, but "A night of celebration for MTM" at a venue. Anywhere in the world, even if it's in LA if they don't want to travel. A true one-off, and play all the MTM songs you did on the FZ tour and add in a few you WANT to play. You don't have to do every single song if it's a big lift, but if there are 1-2 others you want to throw in like No More Sorrow or TLTGYA, or a bonus track, that's a great time to do it! Come on that'd be a fun as hell celebration. Doesn't have to be some insanely long crazy show either. To the point: What I've Done Given Up Shadow of the Day (debut with LP 2.0) Leave Out All The Rest No More Sorrow (debut with LP 2.0) (maybe insert one other fun song here, if not, no problem) Bleed It Out ------------- Emptiness Machine Up From The Bottom Lost Waiting For The End In the End Numb Two Faced One Step Closer Who wouldn't think that'd be cool? And of course we want Summer Sonic 2006, Rock am Ring 2007, some demos, the Making of MTM Webster Hall footage, etc. The LP fans are very lucky to have Adam and Lorenzo, and especially both working for the band at the same time. Other bands don't have this type of fan outreach, or care to be as involved as they are to making things so good for fans. Before they came around, this type of thing was unheard of in the LP world. They do exceptionally well and go above and beyond for a lot of fans, whether it's recognized/seen publicly or not (and they aren't in it for recognition). Very very kind people. We try to ask them for NOTHING because of how much they do for the LP community (the one exception is if Mike raps some demo lyrics live like Sorry For Now and we need them to ask him at some point in time if he'd be willing to share them for Linkinpedia lol).

That's a bit of an exaggeration - look at the Australia events, for example, you aren't seeing the same US/Europe people at those. For the US/Europe you'll definitely see some familiar faces as some people go to 20, 30, 40, 50 shows on the touring cycle so you'll see them more frequently. Your odds go up if you apply to *every* LPU event and you as a result get into half or so, of course. BroodingAnanas covers the band well. She is the most vocal person in the fanbase, so of course she is interacted with the most.

The timing was quite different - the 2025 shows went on sale when the comeback hype was still all total chaos. It's wild that 2026 went on sale before 2025's Europe tour even happened lol.. it had a full year+ runway before the shows so it made the ticketing experience MUCH better due to the 12/13/14 month time gap. It was still not the easiest ever, but was a lot better than being a part of the chaos in fall 2024 for the 2025 tour. Remember the first 5 comeback shows sold out in mere minutes or less, and then the drop of the shows a few months later for 2025 made everyone scramble hard once again too.

Went to Newswire yesterday and saw there was a thread for LPU and then this too - this one isn't really news, post about it in that thread or link to it. Nothing personal. Dropped thoughts into that thread on the new LPU and ways to improve it. Well in fairness the fact that Emily was known by quite a few people for weeks before the launch and fans kept it quiet was a significant feat in itself. And Emily then went on and posted the photo in Ethan's studio during this countdown, so, the cat was out of the bag on her end regardless lol. It all was coming out. By the time I landed in LA for the launch show, a snippet of the song was already out. And the night before my flight, the song title was out. I went to bed with huge anxiety/anticipation like, "what is... Emptiness Machine? what a weird title" lol. The idea was fun / funny for the countdown to go up. It worked.

Would be nice to have M&Gs but at least they are coming to fan events and meeting fans. There are fan events in every major city of the world tour and Colin is almost guaranteed at all, but with Mike and Joe at some, and a rare Emily and Dave at times. M&Gs would be the icing on the cake for this era for sure, but have always thought since 2024 you run the risk of getting a crazy psycho causing a scene with Emily. And that would be a disaster. At the same time the band is literally 9-ish years older than they were during OML and they are performing the longest shows of their career, and long touring. They honestly just may not want to have to deal with that on show days... and that's understandable too. Even Metallica dialed down their M&Gs big time after doing them for a million years full band. They don't really owe anyone an explanation if they don't do them - they're still coming to meet fans in other ways and Colin does it every single show with the crowd too. And don't forget there are a handful of LPU exclusive events too. But, if there are no M&Gs, then it would be then nice if they sold some signed items to fans. Like, From Zero signed for X copies or Unshatter vinyl signed for X copies, maybe the first 300 and it's limited to LPU only. Some exclusives like that would be nice. The fans want something tangible from them that is signed with this new era. Something like that can be done during rehearsals or at home - not on tour. The 10 show posters per show, sure that adds up, but they are sold out within.... 2-3 seconds for almost every show they play so they are very, very hard to get. Or sign these stage backdrop pieces. Hard to be too upset at all of this as we had nothing for so long and the tour is so great. The music probably died in 2017 and the label saw how insane the box sets sold. It doesn't really make that much sense to hold back every single song ever for the box sets though, because they record what, like 20-30-50+ versions (or more, like during OML, some of those songs had way more than 50 demos per song)... so, not really sure why you can't do FZ Demos on an LPU26. If you release one Emptiness Machine on there, you have 100 more to pick from later on if you want lol. If not, then what about the live songs not on Unshatter? My December, Friendly Fire, etc. And if not that, then what about some of the acoustic performances they did on the tour? There are a handful now. And if not THAT, then at least what about the audio of all of the From Zero Live / other song live versions on the LP YouTube? Hit up 10 of those files, press them to CD or vinyl, and bam there's you an LPU release. At least we get the guaranteed presale and tickets when the band is larger than ever. The zine is really a cool item, something they haven't done before and has some great shots. Thumbs up on the zine. And there are other physical items. Just saying this could be much worse than it is with no M&Gs and no music and perspective is important here. It's entirely optional to buy anything like this from the band, but if you see value in guaranteed tickets then get it - that's a pretty big selling point. So, these thoughts are somewhere in the middle between people who are mad about this (lol, it's not that serious) and people who love it. Could definitely have more content. This has nothing to do with the LP team, the band themselves can control what they want to do with the fan club to a certain extent as Mike has said several times over the years. Instant improvements you could make: - Signed copies of releases on vinyl - Some sort of LPU music release (FZ Live from YouTube, FZ demos, a different FZ show on the tour like Rock am Ring 2026 audio for us all, acoustic performances.... anything) - Some exclusive LPU content like video you don't have elsewhere, or give the LPU a download of a show Big highlights: - Presale access, which is really great for the stadium shows that sell out so fast - LPU events, which they are still doing this many years later - LPU Early Entry at shows + the LPU section - both also quite valuable Would love to buy some stuff like signed setlists, or signed drumsticks or something... the pouch is a cool idea to do something with these items, but would easily pay 5x more for a framed piece of the backdrops cut up into a square too as @michalangelo mentioned. Could you imagine having a piece of the iconic LP backdrop from Rock am Ring 2004 framed in your office? Or Summer Sanitarium (Live in Texas)? Wow. These preservationists in the LP world will have to come up with a way to preserve some of these lol. It looks like they are selling ones for some ICONIC shows - Sanitarium 2003, the other 2003 shows, Meteora 2004, Summer Sonic 2006 (so, QWERTY live debut), and more. Having some of those would be really, really cool.

I don't want to let anyone down but we certainly do not have that show, nor have we ever seen it, nor have we had any conversations with the LP team or label about us releasing it. However, we have kindly passed on our very strong opinions to them about releasing specifically this show, Rock am Ring 2007, and others on future releases (including box sets or anniversaries, if they choose to celebrate those). They know we want it, they know you want it. They have Summer Sonic 2006 in full, we saw the extra footage they put before QWERTY (Live) on the YouTube video with the fan Cotaro.

Trafalgar Releasing has revealed new Unshatter movie merch on their web store. Items include a new poster, a shirt, a new Sherpa blanket, and a new acryllic block.

You might be out of luck in Europe - let's see. Could definitely see LP going to a U2 status in Europe where they play stadiums consistently due to the massive success of both the older and newer music.

They should put all of these on a vinyl when they're all out, so we get From Zero Live Around the World.

Linkin Park has announced "IGYEIH" as the next live video and it will come from the Santiago, Chile show in 2025. The Unshatter promo is overlapping with the rest of the From Zero songs, as the Unshatter live show is from 2024 and does not feature a lot of the From Zero material. And here we go!! Credits: Directed by - Mark Fiore Produced by - Amigo & Company and Linkin Park Audio Mix - Kevin McCombs Front of House Engineer - Jim Ebdon Edited by - Mark Fiore IMAG Video Director - TJ Lievonen Additional footage - Mark Fiore, Chady Awad, Adam Ruehmer, Lorenzo Errico. Drone footage - "Chato” Rodrigo Daza

Is this image in a US-only promo video The thing about Emily letting the crowd sing part of What I've Done, etc, is Chester let the crowd do it on In The End and even other songs randomly... not every singer is going to be the same. It works for What I've Done. The biggest one is Crawling and they aren't releasing that one on Unshatter. With Emily it seems very much like it's an honor for the crowd to sing parts of some of their biggest songs, as she is more than capable of singing them herself, but they are the huge Chester songs. Know what I mean? Like celebrating Chester. She has certainly navigated this impossible task of stepping into those shoes very well.

What I've Done next. Then it looks like Faint and Waiting For The End. Interesting there are no From Zero songs on the pre-release list.

It's time for a new LPTV! It looks like the tour series will finish with three parts from Europe with one final episode remaining that will cover the end of the From Zero World Tour. Linkin Park’s 2026 European Tour continues through Austria, Germany, UK, France and Spain. Colin goes for a swim in Munich, we learn why sitting in front of Phoenix on a flight might not be the best idea, and the band watches the World Cup backstage.

They should do something exclusive for the cinema to get people there. Well, we say that and still 19 years later there's that MTM "making of" footage from Webster Hall's theater showing we haven't seen. They should absolutely put this on YouTube in May 2027. Or even sell it. https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/Webster_Hall_2007#Extra_Minutes_To_Midnight_Studio_Footage

It seems pretty obvious that they should focus on playing more shows in Europe (20+ a tour) and less in North America, right? That should open up some capacity for them to get to Asia properly for the next album and allow things to remain similar to the From Zero era with South America, Australia/NZ, Europe, etc.

Billboard has just posted a new article about the From Zero World Tour: "Linkin Park recently wrapped the From Zero World Tour, a nearly-two-year trek that stopped in 23 countries on five continents and added up to the biggest business of the band’s touring career. According to final figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the tour grossed $251 million and sold 2.2 million tickets across 80 shows. The From Zero World Tour ran from Sept. 11, 2024, through June 30, 2026, marking Linkin Park’s first live shows since the passing of original singer Chester Bennington during 2017’s One More Light World Tour. Since then, vocalist Emily Armstrong has joined the band as it returned with From Zero (2024), yielding two Billboard Music Award wins among five nominations, plus two Grammy nods and four nominations at the American Music Awards. The From Zero World Tour lived up to its name, taking Linkin Park around the world and back. After a jumble of cross-continental shows in the fall of 2024 (in chronological order: Los Angeles, New York, Hamburg, London, Seoul, Paris, Bogota, Texas, Sao Paulo), the band embarked on proper legs of shows in Mexico, Asia, the United States, Europe, back to the U.S. and Canada, South America, Asia again, Oceania and one last go-around in Europe. Overall, Europe was the tour’s biggest market, generating $105.9 million from 909,000 tickets over just 19 shows. Despite taking up less than 25% of the tour’s shows, the continent contributed more than 40% of its total earnings and attendance. While the tour played arenas in much of Asia, North America, and Oceania, it leveled up to stadiums in Europe, where Linkin Park had previously averaged between 13,000 and 15,000 tickets across four tours in the 2010s. On its 2025 European leg, it sold upwards of 56,000 tickets per show, multiplying its nightly audience by a factor of three or four. The band also hit stadiums across Latin America, including sold-out shows in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. In four markets — one city in Brazil and three in Germany — Linkin Park played stadium double-headers, moving 101,000 tickets over two nights in Munich (June 11-12, 2025) and 97,000 in Sao Paulo (Nov. 15-16, 2024). Ultimately, the From Zero World Tour’s total gross lapped any prior Linkin Park run more than 10 times over. While grosses for many of Linkin Park’s early shows were unreported, pro-rating their previous tours’ figures to account for missing dates still leaves its most recent trek out in front by at least four-to-one."

Really a shame as that was such a highlight of the 2024 shows and who knows if the band will ever play it again.

That actually is really wild. https://heartmerch.com.br/collections/linkin-park No vinyl here, but CD coming soon as you said. The Brazilian market has to have its own pressing - the vinyls of From Zero before were made in Argentina: https://www.discogs.com/release/32453238-Linkin-Park-From-Zero Guess that was the easiest way to do it for them then ship from Argentina to Brazil. No idea what goes into the logistics behind all of this. But they have known this release was coming since the show happened, which is more time than they had for From Zero, so plenty of time to line up a pressing for Brazil even if it had to be done in Argentina again. Would be very surprised to not see the vinyl pop up eventually, whether soon or later on down the road, in Brazil. The show was there! lol

If you told us in 2004 that the band would eventually release a live album without One Step Closer included, it would be pretty unbelievable, right? It isn't a highlight of this era and shows whereas something like Waiting For The End and The Catalyst are insanely popular live songs right now, but is of course surprising to see. What a time to be alive lol We are working on a few things, yes! September 2026 is 20 years of LPLive. Also, saw on the LP promo video yesterday that there is a jade green vinyl coming too.

@Rasputin 93 came up with the idea after Unshatter was announced yesterday and we did it immediately haha. Easy as that.

We need LP's full attention moving to MTM 20 the minute Unshatter is released. The very next day get it rolling. At bare minimum: Webster Hall's theater showing of unreleased "making of MTM" footage + Rock am Ring 2007 + a merch selection. That should be the minimum celebration around this amazing album.

A lot of thoughts here. The trailers and the editing of the SIB live video are phenomenal, and the crowd is sensational in Sao Paulo. What a shame all these songs aren't being released in video, as the SIB edit has a cinematic feel to it which is fresh in the LP world. There was clearly a lot of attention to detail on the video editing itself. So we may see one more video or something from this and then that's it video-wise from the actual show...? Imagine if the entire show in this editing format made it to Amazon Prime or something. Seriously, hats off on the SIB edit. As far as the movie itself, it looks to be put together quite nicely - a very long form LPTV in a way of 2022-now footage. There already appears to be a LOT of interesting footage we have never seen before. Interestingly they have the Esaul 1999 rehearsal in the trailer too if you noticed. Since Rob's departure was not mentioned in the synopsis of the film (while understanding he left LP over 3 years after Chester passed), it was good that he was featured in the trailer. His departure in the band is just as important to mention as Chester's passing when telling the story of LP as a band, even if the story of this film is really 2017-2024 with a major focus on 2022-now. Let's see how they address his departure in the movie itself as that's a big part of the LP story post-2017. We all still hope to see Rob again one day and hope he pops up at something - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc, but it seems quite unlikely. All a shame despite Colin picking up and performing very well with the band. The tracklist of the soundtrack is to be expected - all singles and new songs. No one really thought they'd release the entire thing on the soundtrack. Their nod to the hardcore fans for a deeper cut may be Leave Out All The Rest which was only performed 10 times in 2024 and 2 times in 2026. Honestly the only piece that feels like it was missing as a major highlight of the 2024 show is My December and that's slightly disappointing to see it didn't make the cut, but at least the show was broadcasted (which we have) and the band put out an amazing one from Hamburg 2024 as well. It would have been nice to get that song, but it's understandable they'd cut a handful of songs from the show. How about no One Step Closer for the first time - wild, right? Is there any news on the score by Alec Puro? Is that going to be released? Hoping they decide to put a full show out in video eventually from the From Zero tour. Missing elements from this show like Mike's solo, My December, the other rotation songs like Lost in the Echo.... it would be nice to see those songs out in some form or fashion eventually. Castle of Glass. This was probably the only chance to get Friendly Fire live released; just now remembering Keys to the Kingdom didn't even make it to South America, or the fall run at all in 2024... it got cut in Arlington. We are always going to have this problem; if they cut Somewhere I Belong but not Lying From You, we'd ask for the other. If they put My December but not Leave Out All The Rest, we'd ask for the other song there too. And we SHOULD have this problem if we are hardcore fans of a band and want every song released. For what this is, the first live release by the band with Emily and Colin, it serves its purpose and will be a great listen. Now moving forward we can hope for more From Zero era shows to be released (if this one in full won't be on video at any point, which it SHOULD as they have it filmed and the performance + crowd both rock big time), and other shows in future era. They could have put all 27 songs up on 4 vinyls and raked in some good money from the LPU fans but that probably wasn't the goal with this (as much as we want it) as the live songs are just a bonus to the movie itself. Looking forward to the movie and with Joe behind it, it's going to be awesome.

The hardest part of ending is starting again. After a seven-year hiatus following the devastating loss of their beloved bandmate Chester Bennington, LINKIN PARK’S remaining members struggled to find their way forward. Their shared history and enduring friendship, combined with the fresh perspective of two new band members Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain spark a renewed creative energy that leads them on a transformative journey of artistic reinvention. Following the band from intimate 2022 studio sessions through their explosive FROM ZERO album release and concert in São Paulo, the film UNSHATTER weaves together rare vault footage, electrifying performances from sold-out shows, and candid interviews with band members and fans—capturing the raw, honest story of what it means to start over. The accompanying UNSHATTER Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) features transcendent performances of songs spanning their entire career, including exclusive recordings not experienced in the film. Inception / Intro - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Somewhere I Belong - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) The Emptiness Machine - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Creation / Interlude - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) The Catalyst - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Waiting for the End - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Casualty - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Two Faced - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Break Collapse / Interlude - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Lost - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) What I've Done - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Leave Out All the Rest - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Over Each Other - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Numb - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) In the End - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Faint - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Resolution / Intro - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Papercut - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Heavy is the Crown - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) Bleed It Out - Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo)

Hell of a recap. All very good. PT era was good, the HT20 and Meteora 20 celebrations were great. Mike on Twitch was enjoyable and gave us something to focus on. There was indeed a period of time in 2022, and mid-to-late 2023 especially that made it feel like it just wasn't going to happen. The fan event in Brazil gave us the rumors stadium shows were booked and that seemed good enough to go on - the event itself was so random, and they were filming fans saying "Come to Brazil" chanting? lol. The Billboard article came out and LP changing agents meant for sure there was a future decided for the band because that's a massive move for someone 20+ years into their career. Dave Brooks is a senior writer at Billboard - if you pay close attention to Mike's comments since 2024, it seems the band's team and label were behind that article coming out and helped piece it together for him to drop so the news was broken officially by someone in a way the band wanted instead of by some random festival on the other side of the world leaking the band was returning - which was always possible. At that point they already had the Rock in Rio offer. Still quite a lot of silence after that, though - months. Fans didn't get any real info on the comeback until mid-to-late summer, when things were pretty much done lol. Warner likely crafted the "leak every other singer on the planet in summer 2024" campaign to keep Emily a secret - pretty genius move. "Is it Amy? Is it Deryck?" etc. Looking back, all of that is a VERY LONG TIME to not have anything show-wise happen. We were always still here but it definitely felt like the air got sucked out of it and they couldn't figure things out with the band, especially by 2023. Now look what happened lol