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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

Linkin Park has uploaded a professionally mixed version of the live debut of Two Faced in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The audio was mixed by Ethan Mates and video comes from the live stream/filming of the event along with additional shots by Mark Fiore. Stay tuned as the band announced on stage that they will be airing a version that mixes both of these shows together in theaters in 2025, which could also leave to a full live release.

The band has posted a new LPTV episode from the recent run of shows in London, Paris, and Dallas, featuring the debut of 'Over Each Other' and 'Casualty', and more.

Show website says this is the only Southeast Asia show. Surprising that they would not visit Bangkok, Singapore, Taipei, etc. Maybe next world tour.

Sure. The guitar on APFMH in Bogota sounds literally like a cover band is playing it. The OSC riff in Dallas (and all other shows) sounds completely off. Is the entire key of the song changed? The guitar on this song also sounds like a cover band lol. He's playing the exact same guitar with same settings as Brad on LFY (Dallas), but the song sounds so muddy on guitar. Listen to the chorus guitar... it's muddy and sounds totally off. This is extremely noticeable in-person at the shows. But it's mostly the older songs. Faint (Dallas) is the same problem. Listen to Papercut (Warner show) - the guitar is so bad. On that one it's his rhythm, he sounds... chunky or something with the riff and not smooth like Brad. It's a totally different sound - Papercut has lost its punch live due to this. There are a million examples. I've seen 4 shows in-person this year and the guitar is atrocious by Alex, unfortunately, on the old material.

This is different than Sirius. With a free Pandora account you can't skip through it so we'll have to get a Pandora premium account to access this.

Pandora is currently hosting a "making of From Zero" station for Linkin Park where the band talks about songs on the album. Mike kicks it off by discussing how "Two Faced" was always a favorite for the band, especially Emily and Colin, but also Phoenix, when it was written. Listen here.

BBC Radio 1 has dropped an hour sit down with Daniel Carter and Mike Shinoda discussing the band's new album. This is quite a lengthy listen - check it out here. It begins about an hour in. ------------------- Some quotes with new info from the interview: Daniel: "You know, without being that guy, how much a fan I am of your band. And there was a little bit of trepidation on my part -- I'd rather be totally honest with you straight away -- and I think within, 4 bars, I was like... 'Oh, yeah, perfect!' and it makes perfect sense... It was just stunning." Mike: "I'm so glad that's the experience that you had and that I think a lot of folks have had. I think for me, I went through some of that a long time ago. In meeting Emily and Colin, and working with them over time and getting to know them over time, for all of us... the recreation of Linkin Park is not something we would ever take lightly. We tried a lot of things. We met a lot of people. Over time we were working on some things, in the beginning it was more about just spending time with each other and then we were inviting people in and playing around with different things with different people and different configurations of people in the room, and we ended up really enjoying our time with Emily and Colin, and we really enjoyed what they brought to the songs. It's a different kind of difficult for fans who have a certain relationship with the band... if you've got a tattoo of Linkin Park on you, you've got a certain relationship with the band and to try and re-invite those people in and ask for their understanding is not a small deal. And to make something that excites and impresses them - that's the other part that was such a delicate balance and dance." Mike: "When I wrote ['The Emptiness Machine'], it was a very very early part of the process. I had done a song for the last Scream movie called 'In My Head' - I think 'Emptiness Machine' was done, I had written it before that. I had a demo version of it, it felt SO Linkin Park. It was one of the things I had written where I was like, it can't be anything else. It's the only thing it CAN be. So I was gonna hold onto it. As I played it for the guys and they felt the same way, we started getting familiar with Emily and Colin. Once the album started really coming together, we made the decision to structure it that way... to me it was like if you're going to introduce me to somebody else, then the first thing I want to do is shake their hand and say 'Hey, it's good to see you,' and then I introduce you, and then we talk." Mike: "One thing you'll notice on this album is that there isn't any wasted space. All of the transitions from one to another are very snappy and short, and they really, for the most part, just fly right into the next thing with chaotic little... all of the transitional pieces that are not actually in the song are chopped up into bits and gritted out into the song in a way where they almost trip and fall into the next song. The exceptions are going into 'Overflow,' which is in the middle of the record, and going into 'Good Things Go,' which is at the end of the record. Those are the two because you need at those moments, something to almost like hit the ground and stop the pace. 'Casualty' being the highest intensity of the record to land into something that's very quiet and a little disorienting, I loved. I kinda found that little transition, created it, and really enjoyed it. In the beginning of the record, we wanted you to get a lot of stuff that felt signature Linkin Park, very core to our DNA. And once we established a bunch of that in the first three songs or so, then start giving you curveballs. And by the time you hit the middle of the record you get the most dramatic switch up. I just wanted to remind people that we're very much not a one-trick pony. We really enjoy to do so many different types of things. I love 'Casualty' and I love 'Overflow.'" Mike: "'Two Faced' was intended to be... the idea was to write something that would be pre-Linkin Park. Everybody thinks of Linkin Park like, we're here in 2024, what's this change, what's happening today? I wanted to remind them that there was a time in the band before we had ever met Chester, when me and my friend Mark were doing vocals. I wanted to do something kind of in that style, and that's how 'Two Faced' started." Mike: "Somebody asked me in a chat, 'Is 'Good Things Go' about something we'd expect, like Chester?' It's actually not - I love that phrase and I've tried it out a few different times in different demos for years, I had that phrase and I knew it was going to be a good song, but I didn't know if its going to be the chorus, a line in the chorus, or what. It found its home in this one... It was the band and Jake Torrey when we were -- Jake Torrey has been in and out of the studio with the band for a few years, I met him when I met Colin -- I told him and the band the line and they were like, 'that's the song.' The way we all kind of riffed how it crescendos up with Emily's voice, it felt so emotional. It's not about one thing... because there was a group of people in the room, everybody was pulling from different personal memories, so the song concept got kind of spread out between all of these different stories. Everybody kind of related to it in a different way and was suggesting different lyrics and things, and I kind of just synthesized all of that into words. The bridge of the song has a long triplet rap part, I think I did that maybe in 2019, I had wrote that? I pulled it up from my phone and tried it out over the bridge and it worked so well. That song went on quite a journey to get where it ended up." Daniel: "As it finishes, you have that orchestral part that links back to the intro... It's like an ouroboros, the whole thing goes 'round again. And the songs you've listened to already become recontextualized because you've now had a different framework since you've heard what's come after it." Mike: "When I wrote that outro, that very last swell you hear, it goes back into the choral... tons and tons of me and Emily singing this choir thing... the end of the record swells up, and if you play the album in loop, then it goes right back to the first sound you hear on the record. So it just loops on itself, which is a circle, which is a zero. The whole idea being that, not just the album can do that, but like, that's life. These cycles happen, and the experiences within the cycle might be the same they, they might be different. There's something to us, we feel like we're at the beginning of a new loop around."

Think it is his playing style. He's palm muting too much on APFMH, the riff is super quiet on OSC and the overall tone of those songs sounds off, like his rhythm is 97% and not 100% or something. It's just noticeably off. But he's nailing other stuff. You're always going to have a problem like this is Brad isn't on stage, no matter who it is they aren't going to get it exact because they didn't write it. Brad didn't play the other 2 songs from THP live so there's no reference point for it, so it sounds flawless to us of course.

No offense whatsoever to Alex but the band's sound guitar-wise is dramatically different with him. Some stuff he nails, like Keys and All for Nothing, but some of the older stuff with Alex sounds poor. APFMH, OSC, Points, Lying From You. They really need Brad. Of course Brad won't tour with a million dates out there but whenever he can join it would be really great.

AI is too unreliable to do this. We need exact quotes from the band and we need context of what they are talking about. Adding to it, they are repeating the same talking points in many interviews, so you have to know what was said before and in what sense they are saying it currently... if any differences exist, etc. It's a lot of work. But it's not TOO MUCH work, it just takes longer than a day or even a few days to get information added correctly. And we aren't always the fastest or best at it, but we'll get to it all eventually for sure. It's a labor of love. We'll definitely get the From Zero pages updated the best we can this month and next.