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Remember they posted in the studio in October/November?

Linkin Park has released the newest LPTV, chronicling the band's visit to Asia with shows in Tokyo and Jakarta. At the very end of the clip, there is a clip of Mike and Emily back in LA with Emily recording vocals on a new song, singing, "sometimes it feels like..." Back in the fall, the band was already recording again, well after the submission of the From Zero material (before the album release)... maybe more new music is on the way. Colin Brittain at the time said, "There’s also couple of songs that we haven't released yet that are may or may not come out next year, that we're still working on, they are really amazing." Linkin Park's 2025 From Zero World Tour continues with stops at Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan, and Stadion Madya Gelora Bung Karno in Jakarta, Indonesia. In this episode, Mike, Emily, and Colin perform "The Emptiness Machine" on DayDay in Tokyo, Phoenix and Mike celebrate their birthdays in Japan, the band plays basketball in Jakarta, and more.

The trailer for the instrumentals that LP posted on social media... they definitely need to be posting more in-studio footage from making the album. Maybe there is something attached to the new release of the Brazil show related to that. Let's see. But it looks like the band was recording a LOT of stuff even way back at Mike's home studio when things were first like legitimately moving with Emily.

They aren't many shows in yet - she will get better over time. Definitely don't see her having this many "let the crowd sing" moments years from now. She is doing really well overall. Much better than we could have ever guessed. Ironically, the part she CRUSHED at the launch show was the ITE bridge - "I put my tr-UST in you"... how she sang that with her voice really struck me in the crowd as such a... moment. I instantly was like "holy shit, she's good." Sadly she has not sung that exact part since the very first show but I hope one day she starts singing the ITE bridge again. I really loved her getting right next to Mike (who was on guitar!) and nailing that. Her voice is so good - really no need to let the crowd sing so much IMO. Not a criticism. Love Emily and she will continue getting better, just as Alex and Colin will too.

I think it's just as simple as that. We were spoiled with Chester for so long - he was truly iconic.

Following the release of the album a cappellas, Linkin Park has announced that the From Zero Instrumentals will be released on Friday, February 28, 2025.

Have always wanted LP to go the route of Metallica and release live songs throughout the tour like they do. This is a new approach this cycle and it's solid - they are professionally mixing stuff and dropping live videos consistently. And important... it's of stuff people want to see. Next step... a new live downloads site with some shows? Doesn't have to be everything but imagine more consistent live releases from the tours (and the vault). This sounds good.

Linkin Park has posted a professionally mixed video of "Good Things Go" live in Guadalajara, Mexico earlier this month. Long-time audio mixer and studio engineer Ethan Mates is responsible for the mix, like all of the other From Zero era material, and Mark Fiore of course is behind the video. This is the second performance of the song, on February 3rd, after being debuted live in Mexico City the show prior. The song immediately became a fan-favorite on the new album and was highly requested by fans for the band to play live to which they happy obliged.

It’s on their Twitter every show.

The India promoters visited the LP team in Jakarta and Digby posted them on his Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGRsW6sOsTXDZ0KTMV2w-SmEkbNWy1_Tm_wG9w0/?hl=en

Definitely don't need 11 songs from one album taking up time in the show unless it's advertised as something exclusive like From Zero in full. Playing them all over 2 nights is cool, though. With 25 song slots, there are just too many songs (and singles) to get any worthwhile older deep cuts in there by playing too many new songs. Glad that Casualty is a rotating song right now. They should do more From Zero rotation spots.

It's all of this stuff. Since they are doing unique merch for each show, they appear to be posting this on social media for every show now.

The band has quietly updated their web store with 6 new pairs of socks and a new heat-changing From Zero mug.

Wow that's awesome. Hopefully that's also what is shown in theaters with the concert.

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.

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]

Is a documentary confirmed? Have only seen rumors on that and nothing concrete.

The LP stream has great audio but it's 6 songs. The Brazil TV broadcast audio is really really poor, almost unlistenable with the mix.

Feel the same about Joe, he's doing more now than in the past 20 years on stage. Great to hear about Dave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What is the show intro they used before Inception? Full show: