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Linkin Park has announced pop-up experiences in Germany for the tour, saying, "Germany - Join the From Zero World Tour Pop-Up Experience in a city near you. Find the Linkin Park bus filled with collectors’ items, limited edition merchandise, and plenty of surprises. Full details will be revealed on June 13th → http://linkinpark-bus.de" The website says, "The Linkin Park Bus is hitting the road. On board: exclusive merch, exclusive vinyl color, competitions, photobox and more. Come back for more details on June 13th." It looks like a new From Zero vinyl variant will be released on this tour of Germany. Stay tuned for more information, as well as more European event info as it comes out.

Ironically just listened to Grafenhainichen 2009 this morning and thought Session was awesome. Joe's DJ spot in the set is pretty short, but they did shorten Session when using it. Would love to see it pop back up.

Newsletter won't be show-by-show but will have highlights, yeah. It's like 3-4 sentences each for 3 topics. But this is the one spot on the Internet to come to learn every single thing about every show lol. The LPA one is a bit shorter. https://www.lpassociation.com/forum/threads/june-12-2025-nickelsdorf-austria-nova-rock-2025.47233/ Agreed. Did not know the Berlin show was 75,000 either. That is going to be a massive show. Rock Werchter was streamed in 2024 and 2023. That seems like a lock unless LP says no, which it doesn't make sense why they would say no since they are building the new era of the band. Seems like we can get that one.

Alright let's get this thing going. Really looking forward to the tour - we've covered a million shows over the years...20 years this year with updating actual setlists after shows. Wow. Nova Rock is as "LP' as it gets for a European Tour... it's right there with Rock am Ring in terms of consistency, etc for the band. There were rumors this year that the promoter paid an extra guarantee to the band to *not* play Rock am Ring & Rock im Park in 2025 so Nova Rock got an exclusive... have heard this several times since last fall. But the RaR/RiP promoter just says the band elected to play stadiums in Germany over festivals. It's good to see they can do a mixture on the world tour - maybe stadiums one year and just fewer stadiums + festivals the year after like they are doing with From Zero. Think we don't get any of these set changes until the first headline show in Hannover. LP got 90 minutes at Welcome to Rockville and *played over* by a full 10 minutes, finishing a few minutes after midnight. The set end time was 11:50pm. That's a 21 song set. They get 90 minutes again at Nova Rock - I could see them going down a song or something slightly shorter for this. I am not sure how strict the European festivals are on the set end times/curfews, but just a note that they indeed went over significantly at Rockville. The festival set is really good and the band should be coming in on quite a high for this tour. They hit a grand slam at Sonic Temple, really shocking the casual U.S. rock fans if you saw social media posts around the show/after the show. Rockville was also a good show. And then they had Munich's UEFA performance... they should really be ready for these stadiums and huge European festivals. These are the largest crowds they'll have played to with the new lineup. Rockville was the largest U.S. show they've ever played as a headliner (aka, like literally of any show but Live 8 in 2005). It will be so cool to see the stadiums in Berlin, Paris, London, etc with LP in them. This is something we would have never guessed would be happening even just 1 year ago. Wild. Also happy about the live guide updates we made - @Rasputin 93 is a legend. The tour will be quite fun to cover - let's do it. For Austria and Czechia I'll take the same set they just did at Sonic Temple and Rockville - keep Lying From You there, rotate around Casualty/APFMH/Given Up in that spot, and keep Let You Fade since it's new. That's a cool song at a festival. But if they want to rotate something else there, that's cool too.

That is absolutely insane. They just passed 500,000 tickets in Germany after the comeback if you are going by the "concert capacities" of all the venues in Germany in 2024-2026 + these 2 festivals so far. Crazy, crazy, crazy. LP is bigger than ever there and that's their largest market on the planet. For example - 11 shows in Germany = 500,000+ tickets. If you run a 9k/show average in the U.S. with one stadium show you're just over 300,000 tickets at 31/32 shows.

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The audio, the vocals especially, are definitely from Austin. Sure it's edited some to make it sharper but this sounds awesome. I A/B'd it to the audience recording and it isn't an insane change or anything. The mixing on these is A+ and this is a solid release. We really need a full show sometime in this quality. From the Inside would be a big one, and Lost, if they are working on more.

Topps has announced that they will be offering Linkin Park trading cards. A few of the cards will come signed, with stage-used guitar picks.

LP Europe - Summer 2026 2026.05.29 Stockholm 2026.06.01 Hamburg 2026.06.02 Hamburg Night 2? -or- 2026.06.03 Festival? No guesses on a festival that weekend 2026.06.05 Rock am Ring / Rock im Park 2026.06.07 Rock im Park / Rock am Ring 2026.06.09 Vienna 2026.06.11 Munich 2026.06.12 Munich Night 2 2026.06.14 Download UK? The date seems to line up. 2026.06.16 Lyon 2026.06.18 (-or- 19): Festival? Graspop Belgium, maybe, if they keep their recent date pattern? 2026.06.21 Rock in Rio Lisboa 2026.06.23 Madrid 2026.06.24 Madrid Night 2 - Possible? 2026.06.26 Florence

Wow this is massive.

Linkin Park has just gone live on Instagram in a huge surprise announcement where they announced they will be headlining Rock am Ring 2026! The announcement was made at Rock am Ring before Bring Me the Horizon's headlining set. See videos of the announcement below. Shortly after the announcement, Rock im Park confirmed the band will be returning as well, followed by Linkin Park's post of both festivals.

That arena is much smaller than where they are playing in 2026 (34,000), but the promoters seemed to have either been too cautious OR booking around Rock in Rio, there were already holds at the bigger stadium that prevented LP from using it. These holds are commonly placed well over a year in advance by bands - imagine when the negotiations began for Rock in Rio 2026... likely at the end of 2024 or very early this year. It's longer and longer out from the show than ever. If the venue isn't booked on the 24th, they could come back and add a second show there that day. There are two days off before Italy. Sometimes these contracts/deals *do* get renegotiated if the promoter comes back to the band's agent(s) and says "we will offer X amount for a second show due to the insane demand" - that certainly seems to have happened in Germany in 2025. The Frankfurt N2 show was added way way way after the tour was announced.

Brad! Seems like this one came together very quickly near the end of the process. Surprised there isn't anything for the bass or drums on this one, or Joe scratching. Are we being too greedy? lol

Probably because the shows are so far away, right?

That's a good prediction. That would make sense. Those shows are booked so far in advance that undoubtedly by September all the headliners for December were booked quite a few months prior. KROQ Acoustic Christmas, etc. So, not much room to play them unless they did a surprise appearance or something. That's a good point they could definitely headline those in December.

This is a good sign for the band for the future of their touring in Europe, but touring in general. Munich is such a nice city. Allianz is only holding shows temporarily while Olympiastadion is upgraded, I believe, so it will be a dream to see them at Olympiastadion one day there in the Olympic Park.

The QR code is only for LPU early entry if you want to do that.

Huge news fresh from Mexico, just days after Joe Hahn reported that Linkin Park was looking to return to Mexico soon: Linkin Park will join the legendary Foo Fighters and Chappell Roan as headliners at Corona Capital, the first appearance by LP at the festival, taking place in Mexico City from November 14-16, 2025. Linkin Park will headline day three, which features Deftones and Weezer as well. This show comes just days after the band wraps up their South American Tour in Brasília, Brazil on November 11. Who will be seeing the band in their return to Mexico? This is the first time Linkin Park has ever visited Mexico twice in one year, but comes right off the heel of good news as Pollstar reports the band grossed over $5.5 million USD to over 64,000 fans in Mexico City in January.

If Madrid sells out they could easily add a N2 if they wanted. Maybe the smaller venue is to test the Spain market and fanbase since they are unsure. The LPU pit thing means LPU members cannot buy it after the presale. And if it isn't sold out then they'll release it to the public.

But they had all of 2016 off and took their very slow/sweet time with OML. It was the first year they didn't play shows. But Chester had some internal stuff going on in 2016 too, stemming from 2015 incidents (not just him breaking his leg). Maybe they did need more time off. Hindsight is 20/20 on that stuff. They probably felt they had an entire year down and were excited to do a new era.

Yeah seemed like the opposite of low energy to me. They sounded great. Pre-recorded instrumental to get it perfect but the vocals, performance, etc was all really good.

Didn't the Spanish fans say there isn't a suitable 30-40k venue closer to the city or something? I know the "no seating" but the benches is what I mean, lol, those are seats.

Email lpuhq@lpunderground.com and ask them. They reply to that email. You can see not all the seats are standing. Just the 4 floor sections. There are 4 levels of seats which look like first-come, first-serve, or possibly assigned (unknown at this point).

8:30 isn't that unrealistic, they have been going on before 9:00 in the U.S. - like 8:45-8:50 range. They play just slightly over 2 hours. So, the Madrid venue really is 34k. That makes sense since the other stadium is 65k (too big) and the arena is too small.

Check this one, it has a bit more before Mike and Emily start singing. https://filebin.net/7hxlygrgrfc9u1ol