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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

It shouldn't be too crowded, they don't sell them to 100% capacity because of regulations with emergency protocols - like if something happened and they needed to evacuate the show. So, if it could hold 700 people, they will sell it to 500. Or insert number here. Know what I mean? There is always room in the sections at the back because they don't want problems to occur. This is why U.S. arena and amphitheater floor tickets are only sold to fill up part of the floor and not all of it. Based on seating charts/maps I've seen in Europe - yes. 100%. Front of FOS seems like the best spot to be at these stadium shows, in my opinion. We were lucky in Arlington that the LPU Pit section extended beyond the catwalk, so you could stand in front of it. Let's look at Berlin 2025 for example. Here, the LPU Pit is way too close to the stage. If you want to see the full production (boxes/screens above the stage), and the band on the catwalk without having to turn around in the pit to look behind you, you want (2) FOS in that big section.

Really enjoying the editing on the LPTVs. Also like that the episodes are longer. Makes you really wonder what happened during One More Light era to have no LPTVs - wasn't that strange? They played some great shows then, too.

You need a valid LPU membership to do LPU early entry. For the USA, you can have a friend in the LPU buy you pit tickets and you go in normally - there is no checking of the LPU membership at the show (entry or entry to pit). You only need the membership in that case if you want to access early entry, which in that case it IS checked by the LPU team. Your friend that is going with you since you bought 2 LPU pit tickets is fine. She just cannot do LPU Early Entry unless she has a membership too - she would have to enter at the normal doors. But that really isn't a big deal and should not worry you. You do not want to be super close for these shows, trust me. The production is very big and they spend considerable time on the catwalk, so you will have to turn around a lot. The very back of the LPU section is almost too close to the show anyway.

Is there any recording of this with the full intro of Emptiness Machine? Everything, including LP's video, seems like it has a cut intro.

It's the trailer for the show.

What about this for the tour? Stockholm Hamburg Hamburg N2 Rock am Ring Rock im Park Wien Munchen Munchen N2 Download Festival UK Lyon Rock in Rio Lisboa Florence Seems quite possible. And the headline shows (besides the N2s) are all announced, and only festivals remain - Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, and Download.

Cool mashup of the Numb remix into UFTB. Thought they did well!

Interestingly it looks like the LPU website now says, "Passport Plus memberships purchased starting September 5th, 2024, and onwards will have access to an exclusive pre-sale when available." So you can join now and be in the second presale, just not the Legacy one. This is right from the LPU page: https://lpunderground.com/pre-sale

Saw that LP and LPU said Firenze Rocks, but it's a solo headline show at that same site. It's not part of the festival. It's LP on their own. It looks like they do this to prevent scalpers from signing up. You need LPU before the announcement.

All great points - the crowds at the shows have been a ton of younger fans. They are very excited to see LP. The band going viral on TikTok so many times since 2017 definitely helped contribute to that. Random songs, too. And it's extra good to be an LP fan right now if you're you because Joe just said they want to return to Mexico very soon. lol