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We tried to post both on YouTube and they got blocked INSTANTLY before the upload even finished. Crazy. But we'll host them here and on lp-bits for sure. By the way if you need any media like that from any show ever, etc, just let us know anywhere on the forum and we can easily upload/post. We don't need anything lost in time.

Is there no download for Seoul Emptiness Machine in the forums? Can upload the file from @wesleylpbr we have if not.

Think the 2 part thing had to do with the festivals first of all, like Sick New World, Sonic Temple, and Welcome to Rockville are in that month span and they need something to do, so they might as well tour around a bit. But it also lets them do more USA and break them up as you said. Yes, good point on Vancouver. Beautiful city, would love to go to that one. Agreed, not even close. Wish they had Paramore on some of the shows too.

Yes, that is a great point. It is good for the fans that the band did not come right out and do a huge Linkin Park co-headline tour with Blink 182, My Chemical Romance, or Twenty One Pilots. All three are very viable, and likely, options. Inevitably the band will do some shows with those artists and they will be MASSIVE. My Chemical Romance just sold out their tour. But thankfully tickets are easy this time as opposed to having to try to fight to get in to one of those huge shows. 2026+ will definitely get something wild like that now that the band can be public about the comeback as opposed to the "hush hush" nature earlier this year when it came to booking shows.

The band just simply isn't as big in the USA as they are internationally. But with that said, if they did 15 shows as opposed to 33, you'd see more shows sell out and quickly. If New York had just Barclays and not Newark as well (effectively two shows right next to each other) then that would be a sold out show. They are likely doing extra USA shows to make up for 2 entire canceled tours in a row in 2015 and 2017. Some of the markets are just really small for them, like Grand Rapids and Greenville... those normally would never make it to an LP tour. In fact it's the first South Carolina show since fall 2000, lol The demand isn't there for them to sell out stadiums or sell out 33 shows, but the extra shows definitely play into the ticket sales here. Canada sold out because they are really hardcore about LP and they always draw huge in Toronto and Montreal. Boston moved the most tickets of any USA city on the on-sale. You won't see as many shows sell out on this run in North America solely because of the amount they are doing and the demand being lower than internationally. If this tour were the same length as Honda Civic Tour in 2012, then it'd be harder to get tickets. They also announced these like 7, 8, 9 months out and that is a LONG time in advance for LP as compared to normal tour announcements they do.

Fresh off of announcing a night 2 show in Frankfurt, Germany, Linkin Park has now added two night 2s to the North American Tour - Boston and Montreal. Boston moved the most tickets of any U.S. city on the tour, selling 80%+ of the venue in a day or two, and Montreal and Toronto both sold their shows out quickly. Interestingly, both night 2s will come the night before the original show. 2025.07.31 - Boston, MA (New show) 2025.08.01 - Boston, MA 2025.08.05 - Montreal, QC (New show) 2025.08.06 - Montreal, QC This brings the North American leg 2 of the tour up to 25 shows. Adding in leg 1, that's 33 shows in North America in 2025 for the band. If you're asking yourself... "wow, that seems like a lot of shows, when is the last time they have performed that many in North America?" In 2008, Linkin Park performed 18 shows in winter 2008 and 24 again in the summer, all in North America. In 2007, Projekt Revolution was 29 shows. We have to go all the way back to 2004, where Linkin Park performed 34 shows on the Meteora North American Tour and 32 shows on Projekt Revolution to get to these numbers. This makes it the largest North American tour the band has performed in 20 years. Ticket information is below: LPU Legacy Pre-sale - Monday, Dec 9 at 10AM EST LPU Passport Plus Pre-sale - Monday, Dec 9 at 12PM EST General On-sale - Friday, Dec 13 at 10AM EST Tickets + Info: https://linkinpark.com/tour There does appear to be a few more days off where other shows could fit, if needed, into the 2025 tour schedule. We will see what the band does.

Following the most successful on-sale in Linkin Park history in Germany with four sold out stadium shows in minutes, Linkin Park has announced that they will be adding a second night in Frankfurt. Show 2 will take place on July 9, 2025, making it the only back-to-back booking in Europe for the band on the tour and only the second in 2025, after Tokyo's 2 nights. The band adds that this is the final show in Germany in 2025, which is not a surprise due to the abnormally heavy touring schedule next year. Notably, the band did not say "final show in Europe", which means that a rumored show on June 22, 2025 could still happen as well as a night two in other locations (Paris? London?). Frankfurt's second show and fifth total stadium show in Germany next year reiterates what the Rock am Ring/Rock im Park promoter said recently about Germany being one of the most important markets in the world for Linkin Park. It is likely this show sells out instantly as well. For those going, here is the ticket information: LPU Legacy Pre-sale - Monday, Dec 9 at 10AM (Germany Time) LPU Passport Plus Pre-sale - Monday, Dec 9 at 12PM (Germany Time) General On-sale - Friday, Dec 13 at 10AM (Germany Time) Tickets + Info: https://linkinpark.com/tour Stay tuned to see what else the band adds to the 2025 European Tour!

Linkin Park has just released a professionally filmed and mixed video of "My December" live in Hamburg, Germany this year. Performed in Los Angeles at the Forum for the first time since 2008, "My December" has been a major highlight of the band's setlists in 2024. It features Colin on acoustic guitar and backing vocals.

Genius has premiered a new video with Mike and Emily discussing lead single "The Emptiness Machine" and all about the song.

Spotify Wrapped for 2024 is out as of today, December 4, and if you are a top listener of Linkin Park's.... you'll see a surprise video by Mike Shinoda at the end! Mike thanks fans for their support and says the band will be on tour in 2025.

Yeah the standalones were redone, but the whole show wasn't done until now.

Not too surprised they did this - the same thing happened with the Hollywood Bowl. Well done. Both were incredibly important shows in the band's history. Also, ran across this today too... a good watch:

iHeartRadio has announced that they will be broadcasting a Linkin Park event on Friday, December 6 at 8:00 p.m. ET. Judging by the promotion of this and the fact there have been no online requests for tickets from iHeart or the LPU, this will likely be an interview and not a performance. Mike and Emily recently did an interview with Alt 97.8 FM in LA and this could be related to that as it is an iHeart station. We will keep you updated on what exactly this turns out to be along with a recording afterward!

Not that we know of, no. There is a list of about 1 million questions we have of old demos, and that is on the list. To date, we have not found anything that confirms that version of the song to ever have been recorded in the studio. If that changes, we will let you know.

There have been quite a few posts going around about Linkin Park performing in India in 2025. We have taken a look at the posts and here is the current rundown of what is going around the Internet: It appears all of this began with the recent Forbes article that incorrectly said the band would be coming to India on the From Zero World Tour. Since that article was posted, the text was updated to correctly say Indonesia (previously missing from the article) instead of India. This can be attributed to just a simple mistake/error. However, there is now a flow of posts online about the band possibly performing in India. Creative Minds India claims they have an exclusive that the band will be visiting India in December 2025. However, this only quotes the original Forbes article text, "The tour will see Linkin Park make their way across North, South and Central America, Europe, UK, Japan and India in 2025", which now reads "Indonesia" instead. V Are Entertainment says, "Linkin Park is coming to India in 2025 🤯 Stay updated on their From Zero World Tour with us. Official announcements and ticket sales are expected soon! Concert rumored for December 2025." This post includes the month of December, which Linkin Park currently has no dates announced for, but there is no source on this post either. T2 Online says the same thing - that the band will perform in India in 2025, but again lists no source or more information. Unfortunately we have not heard anything about the band performing in India next year, but with Joe Hahn saying Linkin Park will return to China, it certainly is possible. With a quick search, it looks like Creative Minds India indeed accurately posts about shows before they are announced, so there could be something there. However, there is simply just not enough information yet to say yes or no that the band will play there... we will have to just wait and see. This is certainly the most discussion that has happened around Linkin Park playing in India, but at least a good portion of it appears to have run with the incorrect country list in Forbes. To date, Linkin Park has never performed in India and they are one of the most requested acts to come to the country. Famously for fans, Chester in 2014 promised Linkin Park would visit someday. In February 2014, Chester was set to perform in Greater Noida, India with Stone Temple Pilots for the MTV Xtreme event, but the entire STP tour had to unfortunately be canceled so that Chester could finish recording The Hunting Party with Linkin Park. We will update this post if more rumors or information becomes available.

A new interview with Matt Schwarz, organizer of Rock am Ring and Rock im Park and CEO of PRK DreamHaus and eventimpresents, reveals more about Linkin Park's situation in Germany with live shows. Of note, he says that the band will not perform at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in 2025, but that his team personally delivered offers to the band in Los Angeles and tried everything they could to get LP. Both festivals have been announcing a few bands at a time over the course of quite a few weeks, intentionally drawing hype to the artist drops by leaving key bands out. As of today, there is still a headliner missing and many fans have been replying to the festivals on social media asking for Linkin Park. However, after the From Zero World Tour was announced, it looked quite unlikely LP would perform at the festival. (Rough translation from German - original article here) MoreCore: There are still a few bands missing. And we want to address the elephant in the room. Will Linkin Park be the missing headliner at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park? Matt Schwarz: Linkin Park will not be playing next year. Of course we would have liked that very much and we tried everything to get the band to do it, but it takes two to tango. I have been closely associated with the band for many years and have organized numerous tours for Linkin Park, Fort Minor and Dead by Sunrise in the past. Germany is an absolutely key market for the band, if not their most important market worldwide. We presented the festival offers to them personally in Los Angeles, but the band strategically decided against a festival tour in Germany and instead went for their own stadium tour, which they sold out immediately after advance sales began. We are very happy about their success. MoreCore: OK, so the festival lineup is a bit like football. And that also means that everyone is a better coach and knows better. You regularly interact with your fans and ask them for feedback. In the case of Linkin Park, you get the impression that people take it for granted that they will come. How do you deal with these expectations? Matt Schwarz: Our aim is always to fulfill the many wishes and expectations of our fans. That's why we are in constant contact with our fans - whether through direct communication or surveys. A good example of this is Bring Me The Horizon, who were booked as headliners for the anniversaries because they were by far number 1 in this year's fan vote. It was anything but easy: The band had originally planned to take a live break in 2025 and not play any shows in Europe. t was an intensive process to make these EU-exclusive shows at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park possible - especially because the preparations for such one-off shows pose enormous logistical and organizational challenges for the band and crew. We greatly appreciate the lively discussions in our community about the festivals and the line-up. We are thrilled that many fans are so passionate about the festivals and have a strong emotional connection with them. This makes us proud and confirms the continued relevance of Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. The interview is extremely in-depth and a great read for fans of live music in general. Source here.

The interview from Korea where the band spoke to multiple press contacts in September has revealed yet another video, this time from Warner Music China. Linkin Park (with Mike and Brad appearing remotely) speak about the new album in this recently uploaded clip. At the end, Joe says the band has not finalized the details but they will be returning to China. The exact information isn't set in stone yet, according to his comments. Linkin Park's last appearance in China was in 2015, with their large stadium tour that took them to Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Beijing. The Beijing show, the last on the tour, was webcasted live and was also apparently mixed for a possible DVD release one day but unfortunately no live release of The Hunting Party tour occurred despite that show and Berlin 2014 being recorded. These 2015 shows were a massive and successful welcome back to the band in China after falling on China's blacklist in 2011. The 2011 tour for A Thousand Suns had stadium dates canceled (before announcement) in Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan due to the band meeting with the Dalai Lama at an LA "Plan to Take On the World" event. Other artists like Maroon 5 had similar problems occur due to China's very strict government. Previously, Linkin Park had performed in China in Shanghai in 2007 and 2009. Now a part of China, they had performed in Hong Kong in 2004, 2007, 2011, and 2013 with an LPU Summit, as well as Macao in 2009. Although China is not a part of southeast Asia and is usually considered just east Asia, the Jakarta promoters recently said Linkin Park's only 2025 visit to the southeast Asia region would be in Indonesia, which would rule out visits to countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, etc. There is considerable time in the touring schedule in 2025 for Chinese dates to appear, so it is unknown if the band would visit in 2025 or 2026. There are currently over two months off after February. Previously, tour dates in China have been leaked well in advance as negotiations have gone on with the Chinese cultural commissions (also the sources of the leaks of the band's setlists/songs being approved by the government). For example, 2015's tour dates were leaked in April 2015 for the May 2015 announcement, about two months before the shows, but rumors began appearing as far back as the end of 2014. Needless to say, when there are dates being finalized, we should be hearing about them whether they are in 2025 or 2026.

A little surprised nothing on Page because of the year of The Hunting Party right now.

We can likely/possibly do that down the road. There isn't enough of that type of information or material to do that on currently but we'd love to do it eventually.

Yeah a million or two, but they can definitely be double that. $5m for LP with half the OG band seems pretty wild. Like, of course, LP is great, but holy cow if they are getting that for something then they have genius agents and business people on their team. Wouldn't put LP and Metallica remotely in the same boat for booking costs like Live Nation appears to have done in Las Vegas.

There isn't anything to report from it - it's a situation where we are slowly building a relationship over time. There isn't anything to report on (yet), or release (legal restrictions). When/if there is something to report with that we will definitely post about it.

$5 million guarantees to both Metallica and Linkin Park (each) is just insane.

That time period is SO murky. But there the photo of Dave with Chester, the first photo they took, and Dave talks about Chester's audition, etc. He was with them then. He also was playing live with Snax AT THAT EXACT TIME, as there is the photo of him on stage with Snax in March 1999. But Snax mostly played local shows and Xero wasn't doing any shows around then, so that checks out. It could be any logical explanation around this - Chester joins and Dave is there, then Dave steps out quickly and Kyle jumps in. It'd be cool to talk to Dave about this one day. Wouldn't really say Kyle is wrong, it probably was around the same time if he's saying that. Jeff Blue would likely have this documented somewhere on an exact date, honestly. He took detailed notes during this entire time period, so he'd know.

Over on Instagram, Mike shared a new Xero live photo from 1998. He did title the year correctly, as this is from June 24, 1998. This Xero show was at Backside Records in Burbank, California and is the third photo of the show to surface; ironically the first mention of the show was by Mike himself in 2020. Here is the new photo Mike shared: There are two other photos from this show, which show the rest of the band lineup after Mike and Brad, with Dave behind Mike: In these photos, we get good shots of Mark Wakefield, Rob, Dave, and Joe. This would have been before Dave left Xero, which happened AFTER Chester joined the band. This is detailed on our Hybrid Theory EP page. Chester auditioned for the band in March 1999, with Dave departing sometime in mid-1999 - the date is not really known. Here is the first full-band photo they took together with Chester: As of 2024, these three photos are the only circulating photos of Xero in existence. A fun fact is the photo on the first Xero cassette demo (Fuse, Dialate, Stick and Move, and Reading My Eyes) is of the pre-Xero band Relative Degree (featuring Mark Wakefield, Dave Garrett, Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon) with a close-up photo of Mike Shinoda xeroxed in, as Mike was not in Relative Degree. Below you can see the first Xero demo tape, with the original photo of Relative Degree performing below it. Thanks Mike for sharing this new photo!

No matter what they say at the show, Mike replied to us on Twitter about using both nights. And wearing the same clothes both nights mean they can use shots from both nights in the live release. Think this just means the 15th is the base of it all and the 16th is for supplemental/extra stuff if they happen to capture a better angle of something and want to sub it in, they can - etc. https://x.com/mikeshinoda/status/1858320271050174590