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The solution is to just get close in the pit. Dallas presale was a breeze. See you there.

Of course. He was at both Los Angeles shows. Brad is involved in the production of the show so he was at rehearsals at Warner and the Forum too.

Since it's with a third party company, it will probably take some time (week or two, etc) to show up on Ticketmaster. It isn't an instant transfer to your account, surely, since it's a travel package.

Just seems so unlikely since they didn't do it with Page when he played with them in 2015 and this is a decade later lol

Yep. So, Castle, Iridescent, and Burn It Down in the show intros.

Rumors are for the Chile festival in February, right? Do both if you can. Codes will show in the passport. But they are not out yet. First USA stadium show headlining for the band. Big.

After a month of speculation and teasers, only weeks after they returned to the world in a shocking manner, and a world premiere during the encore at their show in Hamburg, Linkin Park have released the next single to their eighth album From Zero - 'Heavy Is The Crown.' It is officially the anthem for the League Of Legends Worlds 2024 Championships, taking place throughout Europe and concluding on November 2 at the O2 Arena in London, England - where Linkin Park performs tonight! The music video features animated versions of the band performing the song in different settings from the game and Arcane TV series. The song is set to be featured in both medias. Over 130,000 people were waiting for the debut of the song, one of the highest numbers for a Linkin Park video premiere on YouTube ever. Linkin Park also just announced they will be hosting a YouTube Premiere chat with Emily Armstrong, Mike Shinoda, and Joe Hahn at 4:00pm PT on the music video chat. 'Heavy Is The Crown' is also available on all streaming platforms now. Stay caught up with us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook) for the latest when Linkin Park makes their next announcement! Song's credits:

If they play A Place for My Head in London the venue might fall in on itself lol

New York barely had any too. They seem to be intentionally not giving many to the shows for some reason. They should just put it online and let people preorder it.

Full show video.

Liking this strategy of 2024 being shows they announce close to the show date, as opposed to a normal year which 2025 is looking to be like. Cool to change it up.

4K up on LPLive YouTube

Wonder how Keys shows up in the future shows, then, since there’s no way they spent so much time rehearsing it that it would only get played once. Maybe they have distinct setlists in 2025 that rotate, like the old days.

This album is really shaping up to be something good.

Following rumors from the past week about a new song coming soon, and comments from New York that the band could only play 1 new song for fans, Linkin Park surprised everyone in Hamburg by debuting "Heavy Is The Crown" in the encore of the show! The song is rumored to be the League of Legends Worlds 2024 Anthem, which we will find out more about this week. It's possible release date is September 24. An interesting note - Colin Brittain, Linkin Park's drummer, previously worked with League of Legends in 2017 for the Worlds Anthem "Legends Never Die." Emily said that the song will be released soon! In the setlist, "Heavy Is The Crown" replaced "Keys To The Kingdom" from The Hunting Party. Let's see when the song comes out! ------------------------------------- UPDATE: September 22, 2024 League Of Legends and Linkin Park have both shared a preview of the song and its music video, featuring the band performing in an animated style. It has been formally announced as the official anthem of Worlds 2024. The video and song will premiere at 11am PST on September 24, 2024.

Alice In Chains is a valid comparison - they've released what, 3 albums now with William?

It's a good day to get From the Inside played.

They reinterpret songs in the game themselves, like New Divide had in Transformers. So, their own singer. This pretty much confirms the song by LP will be in the game.

From our good friends at LPCatalog: Linkin Park is repressing Collision Course on vinyl with a release date set for this month - September 27, 2024. The vinyl has only been released twice - on black vinyl in 2004 and for Record Store Day in 2014 on transparent blue vinyl. Both runs are pretty limited so this will be a good opportunity for fans to get the vinyl that missed out on it the first two times around in previous decades. Find Collision Course's 2024 vinyl in online stores, like Rough Trade, for $23-25.

There are risks starting with stadium shows. You need to see how the new single does, what album preorders look like, etc. They’ve also been away 7 years and have a new band lineup - you need to get them used to playing with you in front of crowds. Arenas are fine for now but they do have stadiums booked in 2025 (maybe announce around the album release?) and headlining festival slots.

Rob was around after that. His name is on Notes from the band from May 2022.

Can we say for certain that didn't happen with Rob? Metallica did Anesthesia as a tribute to Cliff for eons, as recently as the Hardwired Tour. It just seems odd when bands like Alice in Chains, etc do a tribute quite often. This was the first run of LP shows back, just surprised at no OML or a song for Chester. Even dedicating BTH to him which Mike was unsure they'd ever even play again.

Hmm. Don't think they finalized songs back then before going to EastWest Studios in 2023 with Emily - surely they are enough of a perfectionist band that they re-recorded everything then and made it super good, instead of keeping a ton of material from Mike's house. But I don't know that for sure. Brad said he didn't even meet Emily until they went to the studio - he met her many years after the rest of the band had been working with her. Brad may have just been a "Mike needs him for producer role as a shoulder to lean on for studio LP work" type of deal and Brad wanted to stay in the band after all, OR Brad trusted the other 3 the entire time to get things right before he eventually joined in (and he was never "out"). One of those two. I guess song credits can tell us more about everything. The confusing one is Rob since he didn't leave until very late 2022, or early 2023 just before Meteora 20. So he was aware of the sessions with Emily, likely even met her since he was involved as far back as 2019 with sessions. What a crazy situation with him.

Wonder why they are going with different people for mixing and mastering?

Just wanted to get some opinions on the band not having a moment for Chester in the set. It appears Lost could be that moment, but it is a little shocking the band doesn't mention him in general for a tribute moment or dedicate a song to him in the concert. After three shows (two full shows), it seems deliberate. Any thoughts?