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I guess they want to bring the jams lol. I can't believe that. Brad makes it sound like it's already booked up and ready to go. Carnivores is legit, 25 shows. And an arena tour in the winter? Maybe December to February or something. Really surprising they want to come back so quickly. I'll take it though! That means an Atlanta show I hope!

I think the tour is booked and they are ready to announce it soon. If the radio mentioned Stuttgart then they are close to announcing in my opinion.

Fixed. Thanks!

Sadly I didn't think about it until 3 hours later, likely when he was already asleep. If not, I'll be at quite a few shows on Carnivores and will ask him and Phoenix.

They had a huge tour book (including 8 shows in Germany), a Belgium show, UK shows, etc. Very big. I don't know why they canceled it but they were ready to announce it. Something must have happened. That's why LP went on "ticket alert" in Germany and places were starting to mention the tour (plus that LT presale for the CD to get access to buy tickets early in the UK). I guess it's possible they could do it again, lol, but I say it's super unlikely they cancel a European Tour again like that. They'll be back.

SWR3, a German radio station, has announced this morning on air that Linkin Park will be returning to Germany to headline a concert in Stuttgart, Germany this fall. This means that a European Tour has been booked and should be announced sometime this month or shortly after. Currently, rumors are that the band will perform in South America after Carnivores before moving on a headlining tour in Europe and then a second United States tour, all in 2014. The European shows seem to be confirmed by the radio announcement, and Brad mentioned the USA tour in an interview with Guitar World, so now we will wait for news about South America. Who's ready? Thanks to BlackChester for the heads up!

Good god where to even begin with this album? Let me just get this out of the way and say - FUCK LIVING THINGS. How in the world does the band have this kind of creativity and talent and then make something like that album? Blah. Let's move on. This is just what I thought on my FIRST listen. But oh man am I impressed. 01. Keys To The Kingdom - The electronic screaming catches you by surprise. But then wow the song picks up huge and it JAMS. Punk-y sounding chorus, Chester is blowing the fuck up. Mike's singing sounds extraordinarily great. This song is absolutely disgusting and is the heaviest thing I have ever heard from Linkin Park. That bridge too! Wow! This might be my new favorite Linkin Park song (after Papercut). REALLY impressed. 10/10, or 12/10, or 100/10. Jesus. 02. All For Nothing (feat. Paige Hamilton) - It goes straight into more jams, with a weird interlude (many more to follow, though) connecting the songs. A band member's kid here and another speech sample? Anyway, to the song. Mike singing, Paige is very audible here to me and is very easy to hear. More punk-sounding stuff and then Mike raps. I like this song in the #2 spot. With Keys opening, there was no way this would blow me away but it is a good song. Another piano/odd ending to the song. "Put the heavy shit there." "The heavy shit right here?" - best way to lead into GATS ever, haha. 03. Guilty All The Same (feat. Rakim) - We all know by now that this song just throws the fuck down. I almost wish I hadn't heard it before I heard the album. I would have saved this one if I had the ability to, haha. This baby just rolls in with a huge intro, guitars and drums blowing up, and it jams the entire song. I love GATS and have been listening to it quite a lot lately. In particular, the break before chorus 2 right into the jammy chorus is A+, the QWERTY-esque bridge guitar is filthy, and Rakim throws down on the great instrumental portion for the rap. And what an outro. Shit, GATS is epic. 04. The Summoning - Weird noises here and it's definitely Nine Inch Nails-esque. It's a good intro to use live and definitely is all like "shit is about to go down". Wailing noises and all. The end definitely sounds like Brad and his kid (or a kid) playing teeball, haha. Use this live to introduce War. 05. War - Woah! This song is thrashy as hell! Chester sounds CRAZY. It's got the Victimized-type speed to it but it's a better song to me. I'm not a huge fan of shorter songs in music but if you're going to do one then I guess it better be disgustingly heavy like War. There's that big dropout/break before the chorus and it goes right into some SCREAMING. Damn! Then Brad rolls on the solo, which is the highlight of the song. This is the best guitar solo of Linkin Park's career and it's ridiculous. The end of the song goes absolutely insane. Really wild track! 06. Wastelands - I had heard this song once live (Rock am Ring) and was not impressed with it at all. I was like WTF? Ok so on to the studio one, which surely is better. The instrumental hits hard for sure and the guitar sounds good. It has a big sound to it. I like hearing Mike rapping, but the highlight that makes the verses for me is that synth (or whatever it is) in the background. I don't love the chorus but it works. I do love, though, how raw Chester sounds - he is singing differently on this album and it's great. This song isn't even the strongest on the album and it already blows Living Things away. It has an "oldschool" feel to the song with how it is mixed. The guitar on the bridge is something I can see myself playing air guitar to in the car. The breakdown w/ some ATS-sounding electronic shit is cool and then it goes right back into a jam. Outro right into UIG! 07. Until It's Gone - I had listened to the studio version ONCE. I absolutely love the instrumental and synth in this song. A+ stuff. The lyrics flat out suck with the whole "you don't know what you've got until it's gone" stuff, but AT LEAST it isn't in some huge prechorus before chorus #2. Wow I am glad that isn't in the song. This blows New Divide away to me. I could definitely see this song being some huge anthem for Transformers, haha. Chester does indeed sound good in the verses and the whole song has some interestingly subtle buildup through it all. The guitar part in the bridge is excellent. The band jams on the ending to the song live and that's what I like so hey, UIG works for me and I'll take it! 08. Rebellion (feat. Daron Malakian) - Woah. The intro starts and this song just gets fast as hell. Surely Rob must have died here if he had trouble on Guilty All The Same. It definitely sounds like a System Of A Down type of song. I can see a fucking 50,000 person crowd BOUNCING to this instrumental like there's no tomorrow. Mike really surprises me here by singing instead of rapping (Rick Rubin mentality, which is good). He sounds fucking great, oh dang. And a Chester prechorus. I'm already loving the lyrics here which are standing out and by now I want to see the song live before I even get to the chorus. Damn. The chorus makes me want to jump up and down. Chester just EXPLODES on the bridge! "We are the fortunate ones" - Mike sounds excellent. This is an overall impressive as fuck. Top 3 on the album with Keys and GATS for me. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. 09. Mark The Graves - This is a very interesting song. I feel like if the band were to make a song like this in 2003 or even 2007, they wouldn't release it and would be afraid for it to see the light of day. This is different from everything else on the album, but in a good way. It goes soft, it goes heavy, it goes medium, it goes everywhere. Chester goes insane, Chester sings softly. The bass is ROLLING here. Can they play this song live? I like this one a lot because it's so unique and experimental. Very cool. It's not an INSANELY amazing song but it is a jam. The heavy part really brings it. Brad and Rob stand out big time. 10. Drawbar (feat. Tom Morello) - Piano and softer guitar here. This is different from what you'd expect Tom to sound like after Rage Against The Machine. This song doesn't have much replay value at all for me but I do like hearing Rob drumming over piano and guitar like Lockjaw, which it reminds me of. The marching drums are good. I'd use this live before Final Masquerade. Or skip it if possible, haha. Worst song on the album to me but the ending does flow into the next song very well. 11. Final Masquerade - Well if the Deftones were mad about the Papercut intro sounding like Around The Fur, they'll really have an issue here, HA. Wow, replace the shitty Ballad Medley with this immediately. Chester once again is sounding/singing totally different and it's just excellent. This is like a new chapter in Chester's voice - no joke. I really approve. This has an 80's groove to it and it's softer, but it already blows Living Thing's slow stuff like Castle Of Glass and I'll Be Gone the fuck away. I like this a lot more than Easier To Run as well. Brad's guitar tone sounds really good and the guitar here just fits perfectly. Sure this is a slower song but I'll jam to this live every day of the week. The "ohh ohh" part just makes it. Great job by Linkin Park in making a slower song. If the band I love wants to make something slower, THIS is how you do it, not with some Iridescent shit. GOOD JOB. Please never play Iridescent, any portion of Iridescent, or any slow song live ever again (or Burn It Down) and just replace all those spots in the setlist with Final Masquerade, which will be a big single on this album and will blow up live. Check. I am actually surprised that this wasn't the first single because this could have gone top 10 on radio ASAP. 12. A Line In The Sand - This is a very defining song in Linkin Park's career. Holy shit. The drums and guitar blow in from nowhere and explode after Mike's singing intro. It gets really heavy, then right back into Mike's singing over Rob's fast drumming. Sounds excellent. Chester enters and shit just blows up everywhere ("give me back what's mine"). Then Mike raps.... what? Over piano and drums? Damn! More territory covered in this song. Ok and after that we have some Hetfield Metallica riffs fucking JAMMING baby, I love it - my favorite part of the song. The song absolutely blows up and rocks it big time. The only weakness I can find here is how Chester sounds screaming at the FIRST part of the chorus (the second part sounds great, so the first will grow on me). I really wish the ending faded out more like with a guitar note or something instead of abruptly ending with a very short fade out. Besides that, I can't wait to see this song live. Final Thoughts: What. the. fuck. What did I just listen to? Linkin Park is on top of their game here and is really bringing it hard. I love the rock sound of the album and there are lots of jams here. I cannot even begin to explain how much of a disaster their 2012 album turned out to be in my opinion (failed experiment with electronica crap and sampled drums, BESIDES Powerless). LOVE the album. Didn't think it'd impress me this much on the first listen. Bring on Carnivores! I love it. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about the band's sound and all after Meteora but I will leave it for another day. The Hunting Party rocks.

I said I wasn't going to listen and I think I'm going to cave in and give it one listen before I buy the physical CD. I'll put a review up when I'm done. Blame Astat for convincing me to listen to it

While browsing the site today, we have come across a show in 2001 where Hybrid Theory was performed in full. We had previously missed this when we posted about Download Festival months ago. In June 2001 on the US-to-Europe Tour, Linkin Park closed the tour with five shows in Europe - Copenhagen, Rock im Park (two shows), Rock am Ring, and a sold out show at London's Brixton Academy on June 4, 2001. The setlist for this show was added by an older LP fansite at the time so we are not doubting it's authenticity. All of the Hybrid Theory songs were performed at this show, including a rare resurrection of Cure For The Itch (last performed in January 2001). Chester also performed Morning After at this show to start the encore. We are missing the Copenhagn setlist to start this tour, so it is possible that it was performed in full at that show as well. Unfortunately, there is no known recording of the sold out show in London. Download Festival will be at least the second known time in which all songs on the album were performed at a show, BUT the album has never been performed start-to-finish before, which will be done at Download! Mike replied to our tweet saying, "But it was never performed front to back; we had 60 minute headline set times, and less than 40 minutes of album music, ha!" Download Festival takes place on June 14th and will close out the band's European Tour. Several songs from the album (By Myself and Forgotten) have not been performed live in over a decade!

On June 10th, Linkin Park performs their first show in Italy since June 26, 2011, almost three years ago, when they performed at Sonisphere Italy in Imola. This show takes place at Ippodromo del Galoppo, an outdoor horse track, and it is expected to bring in over 30,000 fans like the recent Wrocław, Poland show. The show is billed as part of the Alfa Romeo City Sound series, which is a festival/event that lasts all of June and July 2014 in Milano. Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy are the first show out of fourteen total during the two months. Other acts include Motorhead, Rob Zombie & Megadeath, ZZ Top, John Fogerty, Placebo, and Snoop Lion among others. Linkin Park performed at an event similar to this but that just lasted for a week when they played the Festival d'été de Québec in Québec in July 2008. Linkin Park is not a stranger to Italy but it is a country in Europe that the band hasn't frequented very often lately. The first show for the band in Italy came in March 2001 on the Deftones' European Tour. They returned in September 2001 on the European Headlining Tour to play a special invite-only show for MTV Live, which you had to win tickets to. Six songs from that performance were shown on MTV that year. The band returned to Milano in 2003, when they kicked off the LP Underground Tour and debuted Session, Foreword/Don't Stay, Somewhere I Belong, Lying From You, Faint, From The Inside, Hit The Floor, and Easier To Run live. To this date, that is still the concert with the most song debuts at once by Linkin Park! Not bad! In 2007, they were scheduled to headline Heinekin Jammin' Festival in Venezia, but a tornado struck the site and forced Linkin Park, Pearl Jam, and others to cancel their sets. An interesting fact is that the band had to borrow gear for the next show (the last show of the tour in Europe) at NovaRock the next day because some of it was damaged in Italy. Luckily, the festival was able to get Linkin Park to return in 2008! That 2008 show can be blamed for fueling the fire even more with the hardcore fans' obsession with Reading My Eyes! JomJom's Xero tape that he got signed at the show's M&G almost resulted in the band spontaneously adding Reading My Eyes in full to Set Z (the setlist at that show; aka one of the best setlists the band has ever played live), but Chester didn't want to play it at that show. Mike, though, added the verse to Bleed It Out for the very first time and the rest is history - it has made appearances all over the world ever since that show on Bleed It Out and even Points Of Authority in 2009. Thanks to JomJom for getting that started six years ago! Reading My Eyes has only been performed in full ten times total - four in 2006 in Japan and six times in Europe in 2008, but the first verse has shown up quite a bit...each year since 2008 (excluding 2014) in fact. Maybe it will make an appearance in 2014, or maybe the band will add the song back in full to the setlist someday. We did an extensive post on the song and its appearances when it came back in November 2010 on the A Thousand Suns World Tour, which you can read (and watch the videos) here. Here's that 2008 video... Anyway, the last show in Italy was the Imola show in 2011, where the band played at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari. This will be their SIXTH show in Italy ever, and our friends at LP Italy have all sorts of things planned for this show. They have been hard at work for months to plan some activities, including an LPU Meetups event occurring on the 9th. There will be a flashmob on Until It's Gone and the band will also be releasing an official live video of the song (with live audio, of course) at some point after the show, filmed by fans. Finally, Chester will be doing a signing at the Porsche Design Store in Milano earlier in the day before the show! Fall Out Boy will be opening this show, like they did for Poland and at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. Who will be attending this show? We expect this setlist to be the same as the rest of the tour and expect it to only be performed two more times ever - in Milano and at Greenfield on the 12th, unless it stays around for the full show at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles later this month. The setlist will change for Download and for the shows on Carnivores, new setlists will be debuted. For the full 2014 tour schedule, including setlists, recording information, etc from shows on this European Tour, click here.

Mike did HHH on the solo medley? Thought it was Skin To Bone. Looks like this is the first show of the tour without a recording from it.

Just took a look - I guess it is possible they'll play a full set. I didn't know Kings Of Leon played 13 songs there. Of all the bands I have watched there via webcast, it's always between 5-7 songs. Maybe LP will get to play a full set. We will see. Guilty All The Same Given Up Wastelands Waiting For The End Until It's Gone In The End Faint Maybe something like that.

They don't play a full set here, the bands play only like 5~ songs or so.

I didn't "get" A Thousand Suns on the first listen, or for a few months even. I only LOVED Waiting For The End at first, really. I mean going from No More Sorrow and Given Up to The Catalyst is a pretty big change. Then I "got it" and ATS to me now is a musical masterpiece. I can't tell you how much I listen to it start-to-finish; it definitely ranks up there in my top ten albums ever. Robot Boy even is incredible to me. The whole CD is A+++. And then Living Things hit and because it took me a little bit to get ATS, I thought LT was a huge step back for the band. And I still do. I really dislike that record a lot, and LPU XIII confirmed what I thought - they had some super creative, genius tracks like Primo and they tried to shorten them into these "firecracker" songs. The electronic elements seemed so...dumbed down from the ATS era. They had all this synth and electronic stuff and it just sounded so cheap to me. I can dig Lost In The Echo live. In My Remains, Castle Of Glass, and Powerless aren't bad songs (I think Powerless is genius). Just about everything else on the record, especially Skin To Bone, Until It Breaks, Lies Greed Misery, etc I think is really bad. I don't know if I'll ever come around on that album. Burn It Down as a lead single....OUCH. Oh man. I would have kept Primo and the other tracks and expanded on the ATS sound (even longer songs) versus shortening things up for the new album (2012). But because they kept changing their sound and I didn't know what was next...I didn't even think about jumping ship. One bad record to me isn't much of anything if you love the rest. So I can't wait to hear The Hunting Party.

Hmm I don't think they'll rehearse any other new songs for this. This is immediately after Europe. I think they'll do Wastelands, GATS, UIG and some hits.

Album is streaming on iTunes!

I'll try to wait it out as long as possible

As of today, June 9th, The Hunting Party has leaked online! EDIT: The Hunting Party is now streaming on iTunes! 01. Keys To The Kingdom 02. All For Nothing (feat. Paige Hamilton) 03. Guilty All The Same (feat. Rakim) 04. The Summoning 05. War 06. Wastelands 07. Until It's Gone 08. Rebellion (feat. Daron Malakian) 09. Mark The Graves 10. Drawbar (feat. Tom Morello) 11. Final Masquerade 12. A Line In The Sand Who has listened? What are your thoughts? Remember, links are not allowed!

I can confirm he does

Show page is up. Soul, the WID outro was done in Russia and the Given Up extra intro has been there the whole tour, but I just added the clapping to the set notes. Added some other stuff you guys mentioned. Source info is there.

Same setlist and the Skin To Bone verse was in the medley. Added the show page. Pics + etc will be up when Jonas returns from both shows. If anyone has any source stuff for the tour to add, let me know and I'll get it added.

Updated the show page with everything michalangelo sent me.

Well I know some tapers at Rock am Ring that were going to Rock im Park too but I think something happened to their gear

After watching this show, I feel like my overall opinion of the band has changed a lot. This tour is going really well for them. Blew Rock In Rio away, Russia was a huge success, the Poland show had over 30,000 people for a headlining show and Italy will do the same. Rock am Ring had 80,000 people going fucking crazy. The band is back with their game. Living Things I felt lacked a rock single to lead it and Burn It Down/Lies Greed Misery were both miserable (terrible) songs to me. I do like Lost In The Echo live (not big on the studio version, but it jams live). Anyway, ATS they were able to headline anything and do what they wanted worldwide because of how big HT/Meteora/MTM/the whole band is....but with ATS and LT coming in a row they didn't even get a headlining spot at Summer Sonic 2013 over Muse. That was a shock to me. And the ATS Tour lacked legit crowds in the USA, but HCT did well (a large part of that was because Incubus was on the bill, though). I felt like they sort of slipped from that level of "one of the biggest rock bands in the world, can headline anything anytime anywhere, etc". The touring wasn't big, LT had nothing big on the radio, etc. But with The Hunting Party, they're making a statement. GATS opening the show is great, the band is really bringing a different but epic live show right now and they're playing more than 2 odd songs live lol - they're playing 3 fucking jams in the setlist (GATS, UIG, Wastelands). I'm a lot more excited for this album and Carnivores than I ever thought I'd be. After seeing Atlanta 2011 to a very shitty and small (6,000~?) crowd in a huge venue, I was really disappointed. HCT was great but I thought they'd do more touring in 2013 and all and then play a lot more of LT live..but ALTNC and Recharged and the lack of touring really got me down. LT didn't seem to resonate super well with the fanbase to me. They are back and they are ready to roll.