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Wow the Mexico shows were very good. From the Inside performance, Emily nailed it. Very nice ending scream. That song suits her perfectly and is such a great LP song. It has been played every single album cycle since its released, like APFMH. It's definitely a fan-favorite/band favorite... it was technically a single but not globally blah blah blah (all the technical stuff) but so glad to get it back in rotation. Hope they keep playing it all year. They really could do a Set D, just repeat one of the other intros and use POA/Lost in the Echo. And even an E with BTH/LOATR. There are so many possibilities lol They are doing a fantastic job keeping the shows interesting for fans to follow.

Needs to be a From Zero song. Maybe they do two songs, who knows.

Was thinking about that this morning. Don't think it's ever been in the encore before.

Should definitely drink coffee before posting lol. An entire month off. Hilarious.

Mike Shinoda, Emily Armstrong, and Colin Brittain will be in studio in Japan for DayDay TV, performing on Monday, February 10th. Video of the band announcing their performance: https://x.com/BroodingAnanas/status/1887100816508518551 Rough translation from Japanese to English of the article: "Linkin Park, who released their first new song in seven years, "The Emptiness Machine," and released their new album, "From Zero," last year, will perform live on Nippon Television's "DayDay." (Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m.) on February 10th, just before their Japan tour. Emily Armstrong, Mike Shinoda, and Colin Brittain will appear live in the studio and perform a special performance for this one-day only. Starting on February 11th, they will perform in Japan as part of their first world tour since their new lineup, "LINKIN PARK: From Zero World Tour 2025." Their first Japan tour in 12 years will be a two-day concert at Saitama Super Arena." This will be the first stripped-down performance on TV by the band, taking us back to 2017 when Linkin Park began the One More Light cycle with special performances like this. Let's see what they play! Source here.

From the Inside is coming eventually. If it isn't today or this leg, then April, and if not April then June. They are definitely going to get to it - it's been in EVERY LP touring cycle since it was introduced in 2003 and they already said they want to play it. What a great, great song!

Absolutely fucking crushed it. Great read, loved hearing how great those shows were in Mexico that you attended. The 2012 show is pretty legendary. Awesome stuff - have an amazing show!

Breaking the Habit is better than Over Each Other, Burn It Down, Castle of Glass, etc. Definitely would like to see them rotate it around. Play everything. Let it get some 2025 plays, same for LOATR, Iridescent, etc.

Glad to see Keys back. Prefer it over Casualty.

It seems unlikely they will ADD songs since they have so many shows coming this year - it seems deliberate they cut it down. The touring schedule is intense.

They're going to have to get creative. Rotate Castle with Breaking the Habit and Leave Out All the Rest. Rotate Crawling with Points and Lying from You. Rotate What I've Done with Breaking the Habit or something. There are options. Given Up and Keys with Casualty. APFMH and Lost in the Echo and From the Inside together. They can do it haha

It doesn't seem like this new setlist has many built-in rotation spots. However, we may have said that about the 2024 one. Perspective lol. Just hoping they change up as much as they CAN in 2025 to keep the shows interesting. Crawling would be good rotated with Points and LFY - think Crawling is at a point where it can be rotated. Not really sure where From the Inside could go in... maybe they need to rotate some of the From Zero songs? Two Faced/Casualty, Good Things Go/Overflow? The crazy thing is they have a LOT of songs they have already brought in and out and we are only like legitimately 15 full shows in (or less?): Points of Authority Lying from You Lost in the Echo Leave Out All the Rest Breaking the Habit Friendly Fire My December Keys to the Kingdom (All for Nothing) A Place for My Head Given Up This is honestly a ton of songs - the OG band lineup would never have done something like this this quickly on a modern day tour. It's going to be hard to pop those in and out, but most of those should at least get a few plays each in 2025 to keep it fun. From the Inside could show up. If you need to, rotate something like Papercut too. Hoping Keys to the Kingdom shows up tonight or at the third Mexico show to signify it isn't dead in the water. Great post, @RogueSoul on this one. Really well done.

Alex learned how to play A Place for My Head correctly! Massive upgrade over 2024. That's how it's supposed to sound. Now, LFY and POA will be next lol

Song sounds more intense emotionally with it being heavier. Sounds solid.

Wow what a really strong tour opener. Lost full band, Good Things Go with Phoenix on keys, Overflow with Phoenix on bass. That's great. Of course a loss with the LFY/POA spot and BTH gone, but they'll rotate songs all year surely. Solid start to the year and shows this lineup isn't afraid to start changing it up. 25 songs also makes sense considering they have a massive touring slate coming up.

Wow this is going to be the best one yet. That's great.

As an avid collector of other rock band posters, this is a great move. The 2008 and 2012 posters sold so quickly and are almost impossible to find now online. Definitely will grab some of these 2025 ones.

Following successful poster runs on North American Tours in 2008 and 2012, Linkin Park has taken advantage of the recent popularity in show posters by debuting new posters for 2025 concerts. The Linkin Park Underground emailed fans yesterday, "LPU Passport Plus members will have first access to pre-order exclusive, limited-edition tour posters for each LINKIN PARK headline show. The band has commissioned some of their favorite artists to create unique artwork for these posters, which will be released in batches and only sold online." These online posters are limited - Mexico City's on the Linkin Park store for LPU members says, "Each hand-numbered print is limited to 200 copies and is printed on 18" x 24" heavy cold press cotton rag 300gsm paper with a deckle edge." And as a complete surprise to fans, there is a run of 10 posters per show that are signed by Linkin Park! The store says, "Signed by the band, each hand-numbered print is limited to 10 copies and is printed on 18" x 24" heavy cold press cotton rag 300gsm paper with a deckle edge." These are the first signed items sold by Linkin Park with the new band lineup and also makes them the first signed merch sold by the band in a significant amount of time. The Mexico City posters that were signed sold out within minutes, but the remaining Mexico shows took a few hours to sell their 10 copies. Currently it is unknown what "full band" exactly means in this context - Brad or Alex, or no guitarist. We will see when they start to arrive in the mail. Accordingly, we will be updating show pages to archive this information to get the show posters added as well as the information on each one. The band has also launched new From Zero World Tour official merch, including a 2025 tour poster with all of the stops, updated shirts, and more. These items come following the band's Mexico City pop-up store, which they featured on social media with exclusive merch before announcing that Tokyo, Japan would have the next pop-up store in February. It appears that at least the Mexico pop-up store featured additional exclusive posters, not sold online. It is unknown yet if these will be sold at venues as well. We will be sure to keep you updated on the tour as more show posters are released as the band makes their way through the 2025 touring slate.

I think it's a great time to play more Hunting Party, add From the Inside, and debut Good Things Go.

Mike and Emily's part 2 of their "From Zero" chat, coming in at 47 minutes, is out now. They discuss everything that has happened in the past few months, from the album release to the shows and more.

Mike said it's up to the record label to advocate for the band and get enough momentum to submit the works or something.

If they get nominated for and win another Grammy, that would be a massive feat for the band.

The full show has never been aired or released. It would be a good one to include on a Living Things smaller box set if they choose to go that route.

There are all sorts of reasons they may not want to do M&Gs: 1. The online backlash against Emily is pretty intense, even still. Just one person causing a ruckus at a M&G could be a problem. 2. The band is older than ever and is playing the longest shows they've ever played. They said the 100 person M&Gs wore them out as far back as 2007 which is why they took it down to 15-20 in 2008... imagine all this time later. Mike also said the Post Traumatic M&Gs hearing everyone talk to him about Chester was a LOT on him mentally and emotionally. No doubt there would be a considerable amount of that now with LP back. Playing 2h15m per show and doing M&Gs before it would be pretty tiring undoubtedly for them. Handling the Alex/Brad situation is not that big of a deal, but you'd be getting 5/6ths of the band at M&Gs. A good solution is do an LPU Summit a few times per year or per touring cycle. Since they are two day events, you could even set it up that the M&G portion could be on the band's day off and not before the show. There are a lot of options there.