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Ladies and gentlemen, my moment has come. Linkin Park is returning to my home state of New Jersey for the first time in eleven years, performing at the venue I've seen the single most concerts at for the first time: the Prudential Center in Newark on August 3, 2025! I'm not going easy on you today. We're about to dive deep into some history today; you're about to learn some shit. The last time Linkin Park visited the Garden State was in 2014, with two stops here on the tour with my favorite lineup ever, the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars and AFI! The last show overall was at Holmdel's PNC Bank Arts Center - basically in my backyard as it's a light 15 minute drive away from me! The band rocked the amphitheater with Set A - unleashing the likes of 'Guilty All The Same' and 'Rebellion' upon Central Jersey (yes it exists). The encore "medley" saw the band bust through songs like 'Lost In The Echo' and 'Until Its Gone,' even throwing a verse of 'With You' into the mix! Camden was just before this two shows before (I refuse to let you claim it, Philly. No matter how much of a shitshow it may be), at the then-name Susquehanna Bank Center (now the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion) and much to my dismay - they also played Set A at this show. Despite me getting the same setlist twice, each show packed a punch and was a blast to be at! The band was due to play Atlantic City for the first time in 2015, but unfortunately do to Chester breaking his ankle, the show was cancelled and never rescheduled. The band once again hit Camden on their summer tour east coast special on the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus, gracing us with the massive Set B featuring the 'A Place For My Head' show opener and an epic encore featuring 'Papercut' and 'Lying From You' following 'Tinfoil' and 'Faint.' The band hosted an LPU Summit at the venue before the show, running a Q&A as well as delivering 'In My Remains' and 'The Messenger' acoustic for fans in attendance. This was my second Linkin Park show ever! Sadly for me, this is where my consciousness tuned out and I was too young to. attend any of the previous shows - but there was a lot of action in this state going on while I was still in diapers. The full livestream recording of Linkin Park's show in Camden, New Jersey's Susquehanna Bank Center on August 15, 2014. This was the band's latest show in the state! While the band didn't visit the state during the A Thousand Suns World Tour, they were getting busy here during the Minutes To Midnight World Tour with five shows! Projekt Revolution 2008 hit us with the Holmdel and Camden special once again, with both shows getting Set Z, but two different versions of it! Camden was first up with the first appearance of the set all tour, delivering songs like 'In Pieces' and 'Wake 2.0,' and even a rare 'We Made It' performance in the encore (which Mike almost entirely forgot his verse during)! A studio version of 'Pushing Me Away' also hit the crowd after a false start, not long before a freak thunderstorm also hit the venue. Luckily, there were no interruptions with the setlist as a result of it. Holmdel saw mostly the same set with some changes: the dual encore was dropped for an unknown reason along with 'Cure For The Itch,' instead opening with 'What I've Done.' This was the final performance of 'We Made It' as Busta Rhymes didn't even play his set that day and disappeared from the tour completely after this show. The band also switched around the positions of 'Faint' and 'One Step Closer,' with 'One Step Closer' now closing the main set. The 'Points Of Authority' intro actually saw basically a complete performance of 'Petrified' between the two shows, with Verse 1 being performed in Camden and Verse 2 in Holmdel. Chris Cornell also joined the band for 'Crawling' after the 'KRWLNG' intro with a verse of 'Hands Held High' at both shows! 2007 also got the summer tour special on Projekt Revolution 2007, except that the stops at the two cities came at the end of the tour, for a change! Camden started things off with a 'No More Sorrow' opener, launching straight into 'Lying From You,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' 'Wake,' and 'Given Up.' What a start! This set featured more treats like 'Hands Held High' in its entirety and 'Don't Stay,' as well as new songs from Minutes To Midnight like 'The Little Things Give You Away' and 'Shadow Of The Day.' 'QWERTY' was unfortunately dropped, but 'Don't Stay' was added in perhaps a replacement. 'Breaking The Habit' opened the encore, being performed for the very first time with its studio intro and no extended intro. Holmdel start off in similar fashion a few days later, with the same beginning run of songs but the main body of the set switched up. New Jersey was denied 'QWERTY' a second time (shame), but we got an interesting encore opening with 'The Little Things Give You Away' before 'Cure For The Itch' led into a 'One Step Closer' and 'Faint' show closing sequence. Nasty business is always occurring in Jersey! That's not all for 2007, because Linkin Park headlined the now defunct Bamboozle Festival earlier that year, marking their first performance in the United States since 2005. This show featured everything you'd expect from an early Minutes To Midnight set, opening with 'One Step Closer' with its Gunshot Intro. this show also featured the only performance of 'Runaway' on the entire cycle, and the only performance of the song until it returned in 2012! A full audience recording of Linkin Park's headlining set at Bamboozle 2007 in East Rutherford, New Jersey on May 6, 2007. This was the last performance of 'Runaway' until 2012, and the only one from 2006 onwards! Linkin Park's run in New Jersey on Projekt Revolution 2004 was nothing short of... revolutionary. First up was Holmdel, a standard show up until the end of the main set where things started getting... freaky. Jay-Z came out for the encore, ripping 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You' and 'Big Pimpin'/Papercut' during the encore! The full versions of 'Lying From You' and 'Papercut' were omitted from the set so they could play these with Jay. This was the only time he joined the band for one of their headlining shows until 2008! The second show of the run was none other than the legendary Camden 2004 show, which boasts perhaps the amongst the best known Linkin Park proshots known to the fanbase. With beautiful recordings of all the legendary moments like their cover of Nine Inch Nails' 'Wish,' the Blood, Anger, Suffering Outro Transition between 'Figure.09' and 'From The Inside,' Jonathan Davis joining the band for the Reanimated Bridge of 'One Step Closer,' and even the boy Sal sending up a guy who didn't know how to play 'Faint' on guitar! If you haven't seen this whole show, you're missing out on a piece of history! Things were a little different in 2003, with Linkin Park making an appearance in East Rutherford (the same spot as the Bamboozle Festival) at Giants Stadium (now Metlife Stadium), opening for Metallica on the famous Summer Sanitarium Tour. The setlist matched the Live In Texas DVD, and featured all the goods like 'P5hng Me A*wy,' 'Numb' fresh off its live debut, and 'One Step Closer' closing the show. The band played in the same area as their last show in the state of the Hybrid Theory World Tour, playing at the Continental Airlines Arena (later known as the IZOD Center before being shutdown completely) on the Family Values Tour, featuring setlist highlights like a rare 'Step Up' and Aaron Lewis from Staind guesting on 'One Step Closer.' The band's very first Camden & Holmdel summer special hit on the Ozzfest in 2001 (RIP Ozzy), though the shows were separated considerably. The tour ended with a two night stand at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, both opening with the 'With You' and 'Runaway' combo. Chester was apparently ordered by doctors to not play these last two shows of the festival due to a spider bite he sustained in Massachusetts a few shows prior causing him to become delusional and confused, but he played the show anyway. Maybe he thought he was about to embark on a Spiderman arc, but sadly that did not happen - though the band did end up delivering some strong shows! Camden also got two shows that tour in the middle of it, though they were inexplicably separated by about two and a half weeks. The first took place in early July 2001, a fun moment from the show being that Chester started his iconic "C'mon!" scream for 'With You' before the song even began, leading to him holding it longer than usual! Footage from this show was used in the live music video for 'Points Of Authority,' too! Their second show there took place later that July, and while we don't know the full setlist, we know the regular 'Welcome To The Jungle' by Guns 'N' Roses show intro led right into 'With You.' Finally, the band's very first show in the state took place in the town of Old Bridge (another town I live quite close to) at the defunct Birch Hill Nite Club - their last show on a quick run of headlining bar shows in the Northeast. There's been a lot of action in the state of New Jersey, and I'm now here to ascertain that keeps happening! You know what time it is. This is a full proshot recording of Linkin Park's show at the Tweeter Center at the Waterfront (present-day Freedom Mortgage Pavilion) on August 3, 2004. If you haven't seen this show before... are you really an LPLive member? The band made sure to make their first headlining 2 night stand in the States something to remember! Night 1 featured a slightly more traditional set, though the band still tossed in a couple of treats. 'Bleed It Out' (along with a verse from 'There They Go') closed the show for the first time on this leg, with fan favorites 'Cut The Bridge', 'Good Things Go', and 'A Place For My Head' rounding out some of the rotation slots. The latter returned to the encore after Brooklyn's "encore rotation" (filled by 'From The Inside') moved up to Act 4. The "Control Colin" game on 'Numb' also saw a slight evolution, with the gospel theme extending into a jam outro for the song! Night 2 is where things got a bit freakier. 'Points Of Authority' (which has become somewhat rare this year) returned to Act 1, and fellow rarities 'IGYEIH' and 'Stained' filled out the latter rotations. A special shoutout to 'Let You Fade' (which took up the encore/Act 4 rotation) feels due since a group of fans coordinated shirts to spell out the title line! Maybe it wasn't what got them to throw it in the set, but it certainly got Emily's attention! The real surprise of the night came in what is usually the 'Castle Of Glass' spot. As a treat for night 2, the band brought out 'LIES GREED MISERY' for the first time since January 2014! The band had posted a couple teasers of them at soundcheck, and some eagle eyed fans spotted the lyrics to the song on the teleprompter. It's very refreshing to see them adding in deep cuts this far into the tour! Who knows what else is on the docket?! And to top it off, Lynn Gunn from opener PVRIS joined the band on stage for the second half of 'Burn It Down'! Boston truly was given a stellar experience across both nights. 'Lies Greed Misery' live from Boston, night 2. If you couldn't tell, Nico was quite excited for this! Speaking of PVRIS, they've been absolutely killing it, and it seems like Linkin Park's attitude towards changing the set is contagious! Every night has been different so far! Boston night 1 saw 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' (produced by a somewhat familiar name in Mike Shinoda) replacing 'BURN THE WITCH', and night 2 saw the addition of Use Me's 'Hallucinations' (as well as the return of 'BURN THE WITCH'). Of course, staples like 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'My House' continue to explode on stage. If you're going to these shows, you'd be doing a disservice by missing out on PVRIS. Now what does all this mean for Newark? Who knows?! Boston covered a good chunk of the band's rotation options, so anything could be on the table. Of all the songs performed this year, 'Keys To The Kingdom' is the only one not to have been played on this leg of the tour. That could very well be on the docket for Sunday! Rotations from Brooklyn like 'Casualty' and 'Over Each Other' are also very much in the realm of possibility. Reaching a bit further, 'Unshatter' remains the only song from the From Zero era that hasn't been played live yet, and I doubt anyone would complain about more new songs joining the fray! Weatherman Rogue Soul has some good news for his fellow New Jesreyans! It's should be a nice, sunny day for the show. The heat wave is mostly behind us, so we're looking at some cooler 70s-low 80s temperature-wise, which is a welcome change from Brooklyn's sweltering heat. Speaking of Brooklyn, if you're in the area, Linkin Park is doing a pop-up at Paulie Gee's pizza shop Saturday, August 2nd (today at the time of writing) from 11:30am to 6:00pm. Make sure to grab a slice and some merch if that's of any interest to you! After Newark, the band heads to our neighbors up north for another two night stand in Montreal and a one-nighter in Toronto before coming back to the states in our resident Living Things enjoyer Nico's (aka Glass Castles) hometown of Chicago! With all the recent Linkinpedia updates we've been doing as far as the show pages show, we'd like your help in expanding them further! We are looking for pictures or scans of a number of items from the band's 2025 tour, including wristbands, tickets, setlists, exclusive pop-up store content, and more. If you have anything to contribute, check out our thread on the matter and submit your pictures directly to us - if they meet the mark we will get them uploaded to the show pages and credit you (and also blur your information out where applicable)! Be sure to check out the site to see our recent changes to the show pages (including marked rotation songs, album breakdowns, and more statistics) if you haven't already, and enjoy the upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers with faster loading times on both sites! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

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We're back in Boston for round two! Linkin Park continues the From Zero World Tour with their first ever multiple-night headlining stand in the United States in their career for their second and final night at TD Garden on August 1, 2025! In the last pre-show post we talked about Linkin Park's history in Massachusetts from the One More Light era back to the Minutes To Midnight era, so today we'll dive back even further for the first portion of the band's career. The band played four shows in the state back on the Meteora World Tour, the last of which took place on Projekt Revolution 2004 in Mansfield. This set featured many of the classic late-Meteora moments, notably the Blood, Anger, Suffering Transition Outro between 'Figure.09' and 'From The Inside,' the Hip-Hop Medley of 'Step Up,' 'Nobody's Listening,' and 'It's Goin' Down,' and their cover of 'Wish' by Nine Inch Nails! Earlier in the year, at the very start of the 2004 North American Tour in January, opening with 'With You' and 'Runaway' before diving into other goodies like full renditions of 'IT's Goin' Down,' 'Nobody's Listening,' and a rare 'My December' and 'P5hng Me A*wy' in the encore preceding 'A Place For My Head' and 'One Step Closer.' Absolutely nasty! The band played two shows in the state as well in 2003, the second being that summer on the legendary Summer Sanitarium tour opening for Metallica at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. This show had the same set as the Live In Texas release, featuring all the goods from that DVD like performances of 'P5hng Me A*wy' and 'Crawling' with its 'KRWLNG' intro. Earlier in the year, Linkin Park brought Meteora songs live to the United States for the very first time with a performance in Worcester in March 2001 on the LP Underground Tour. Tracks like 'Somewhere I Belong' and 'Lying From You' were fresh off the presses at this show, and with his being their first U.S. show of the whole world tour, fans heard some truly explosive tracks for the very first time, even being treated to some very rare songs like 'Hit The Floor' and 'Easier To Run.' The band performed in Massachusetts a whopping six times on the Hybrid Theory World Tour, visiting there nearly every time they did a U.S. run (and there were a lot of those back then). The band's last show on the cycle there was on the inaugural Projekt Revolution 2002, visiting Lowell. This show took place on Mike's birthday, and at one point in the show they had the crowd help them sing Happy Birthday to him! 2001 saw the band in the state four total times, the last of which was on the Family Values Tour in Worcester. While 'Forgotten' was dropped from this show and all the following shows on this tour, the set did feature some rare tracks like 'Step Up' and 'Pushing Me Away.' Aaron Lewis from Staind also came out to guest on 'One Step Closer' to close out the show! When the band performed on Ozzfest 2001 (RIP Ozzy), the tour had two stops in Mansfield that August. The first night featured a fairly standard Hybrid Theory-era set opening with 'With You' and 'Runaway' before diving into other songs like 'Points Of Authority' and 'By Myself.' Chester performed 'Walk' by Pantera with Disturbed at this show during their set, too! We don't have a setlist for the second night, but we do know from the Frat Party At The Pancake Festival DVD that Chester got bit "on the ass" by a poisonous spider at this show. Not quite the rarities we're looking for, but we'll have to take it. Earlier in the year, the band played a NEMO Music Showcase in Boston for their second show in the city, and while we don't know the exact setlist, we do know 'With You' opened and that they ran through other tracks like 'Forgotten' and 'Crawling.' The band's very first show in Boston and Massachusetts overall was in November 2000, playing WBCN's X-Mas Rave. We have very little info about many of these early shows in the state, so if you were there, let us know what you remember! A full recording of Linkin Park's show in Worcester, Massachusetts on the Family Values Tour on October 27, 2001. While the quality on this isn't so great, watching it will definitely transport you to a different time! Night One in Boston was nothing short of a spectacle. The LPLive team was live in the seats (and on Instagram, in fact) for this show, and it was the first time we'd seen the 360 setup from anywhere but the pit! The LPU Reserved section offers a great view and a great sound - and we'd definitely recommend it if you're still looking at options in the future! The band whipped out 'Crawling' and 'Lying From You' in Act I once again, but brought back 'Cut The Bridge' with the Moscow Intro, and it absolutely roared to life! 'Given Up' took the heavy rotation slot, right after Mike whipped out the demo verse (which we're pretty sure that he thinks is the real verse) of 'Lift Off' from Post Traumatic during his solo medley. 'Good Things Go' made an appearance in the ballad rotation before Mike played 'One' by Metallica over the extended intro of 'Overflow.' The gospel theme won for a second show in a row (boo) for the Colin Control intro for 'Numb,' but the band brought back the outro jam for the song and did some pretty extensive work with it. 'In The End' and 'Faint' returned to the main set, with 'Heavy Is The Crown and 'Bleed it Out' resuming their regular closing position in the encore. 'A Place For My Head' made an appearance in the encore as well (which was awesome as it was my friend who had never seen the band's one request), that rotation slot returning to the end of the set as well. 'Bleed It Out' featured 'There They Go' over the extended bridge, as well! With this being the third show under the band's belt for this run, there's just a few rotations left that we haven't seen that should pop up here. Act I is only missing the likes of 'Points Of Authority' from the list of potentials, and 'New Divide' could make a comeback for some playtime in Boston. The heavy rotation could go to either 'IGYEIH' or 'Keys To The Kingdom' if the band doesn't repeat anything yet. 'Stained' is the last ballad in the books for the Act III rotation, and 'Let You Fade' may be geared up for an encore appearance. It seems quite likely that 'In The End' and 'Faint' swap back to close the show again now that the band is getting more comfortable with that sequence. Night 2 was the original night announced, meaning this'll be the ones where some truly hardcore fans will be at - could bigger surprises be in store for us? Let us know your predictions! PVRIS will once again be opening the show, and as these are hometown shows for them, we're sure they'll have some extra fervor to deliver! Their sets have been nothing short of epic, delivering that right blend of alternative rock and electronica that fits right into the Linkin Park ethos. Opening with 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'ANIMAL,' Lynn Gunn commands our attention as the band busts out more familiar tunes like 'Dead Weight' and 'My House.' Newer cuts like 'Snakes' and 'Burn The Witch' made their way into the set as well before 'GODDESS' brings the show to a climactic end. If you can make it in time to see the show, definitely don't miss PVRIS! We're still holding out on a guest feature as well, whether its Mike coming out for a song (he produced 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' from their new record) or Lynn coming out for a Linkin Park song! Who's going to the show? Myself, Mark (Hahninator), and Nico (GlassCastles) are still in town and ready to jam for round 3 of 4 - we'll see you in the pit this time! Weatherman Rogue Soul is live on the scene (for real this time) to report that it will actually be cool today with temperatures not hitting above the mid 60's! That being said, it'll be raining all morning and be cloudy for the rest of the day. That won't stop us from having a great time, though! After this show, the band heads back to my neck of the woods with a show in my great home state of New Jersey with their first show at the Prudential Center in Newark before heading off to Canada for another multiple-night stay in Montréal and a show in Toronto. The band then heads back to the U.S. to Nico's home in Chicago, Illinois and continues through the United States from there! There will be a Linkin Pizza pop-up in Brooklyn, New York on August 2 for anyone in town, hosted at Paulie Gee's from 11:30am to 6:00pm, featuring food and exclusive merch! With all the recent Linkinpedia updates we've been doing as far as the show pages show, we'd like your help in expanding them further! We are looking for pictures or scans of a number of items from the band's 2025 tour, including wristbands, tickets, setlists, exclusive pop-up store content, and more. If you have anything to contribute, check out our thread on the matter and submit your pictures directly to us - if they meet the mark we will get them uploaded to the show pages and credit you (and also blur your information out where applicable)! Be sure to check out the site to see our recent changes to the show pages (including marked rotation songs, album breakdowns, and more statistics) if you haven't already, and enjoy the upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers with faster loading times on both sites! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

Some videos I took last night - if you've seen my videos before you'll be glad to know my voice gave up on me early this show lol

The longest tour leg of an already intense year on the road for Linkin Park has commenced with a bang, and they're continuing the opening run with a grand two-night stay at the esteemed TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, with Night One kicking off on July 31, 2025! This will be Linkin Park's fifth show in the city of Boston and sixteenth show in the state of Massachusetts overall - seeing as they're playing two shows in the city, we'll split the history lessons in half for these posts! This will be the band's first show in the state in eleven years, with their last show there taking place in Mansfield's Xfinity Center on the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars in August 2014 (a stop at the same venue was set to kick off the One More Light North American Tour in 2017 that ultimately never took place). The band whipped out Set B, which at the time featured 'With You,' an abridged version of 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You,' and 'Somewhere I Belong' as rotation songs, while also bringing some heaviness from The Hunting Party to life with 'Guilty All The Same,' 'Rebellion,' and 'Final Masquerade.' The band performed at the same venue (then called the Comcast Center) at the start of the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus in August 2012, debuting the tour's Set C, featuring 'Tinfoil' and 'Faint' opening the show, leading right into 'Papercut,' 'Given Up,' 'With You,' and 'Somewhere I Belong.' The band had worked up 'Lost In The Echo' and 'Victimized' (mashed up with 'QWERTY') for the tour, while also bringing out 'Burn It Down' and 'Lies Greed Misery' from Living Things. 'Until It Breaks' verse three featured over the famous Wall Of Noise Intro for 'Waiting For The End' for an extra touch, while a cover of the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' blew up the bridge of 'Bleed It Out.' The band's only other show at TD Garden took place on the A Thousand Suns North American Tour in February 2011. Boasting a number of huge tracks from the record like 'When They Come For Me' and 'Burning In The Skies,' the band brought some magic to their first arena show Boston with an epic setlist. The Minutes To Midnight World Tour saw the band hit Massachusetts twice, the latter of which was the kickoff of Projekt Revolution 2008 in Mansfield. Opening with a huge run of 'One Step Closer' with its Gunshot Intro, 'Lying From You' with its 2008 Intro, and 'Somewhere I Belong,' the band burst right into the newly modified Set X, which also featured the live debut of 'We Made It' with Busta Rhymes, Spliff Star, and Adam Monroe as the first encore. This would be one of only a few performances of the song, as Busta Rhymes would drop off of the tour only a few shows into the tour! Other treats in the set included 'The Little Things Give You Away,' 'Wake 2.0,' and 'Crawling' featuring Chris Cornell as well as the 'KRWLNG' intro with a verse of 'Hands Held High.' Their stop in Mansfield came near the end of Projekt Revolution 2007, but the band was just as energized as ever with a huge setlist featuring rare tracks from Minutes To Midnight like 'In Pieces.' Brad played a different guitar solo to 'Shadow Of The Day' at this show, and Mike brought out a verse of 'Nobody's Listening' for the intro of 'Points Of Authority.' Chester spoke about New Orleans, and mentioned other states that were then being affected by a number of tropical storms before 'The Little Things Give You Away,' dedicating the song to "those people who are needing someone right now." Linkin Park's full show at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on February 1, 2011! The A Thousand Suns Tour stage setup was really unique and really set the mood for the epic show. The tour kickoff show in Brooklyn, New York started things off with flying colors, and definitely set the tone for the upcoming shows! Opening with a familiar Inception Intro A (with the 'Castle Of Glass' theme) into 'Somewhere I Belong,' the band launched into Act I with the likes of 'Crawling,' 'Lying From You,' and 'New Divide' before 'The Emptiness Machine' wrapped things up. Act II remained largely unchanged, with 'Up From The Bottom' returning to its regular spot after being moved up in the set at the end of the European leg in Saint Denis, France. Mike went into the crowd for his solo medley, and gave his signed hat to our friend Janhvi (LP India) at the front of the barricade before whipping out 'Until It Breaks' verse 3 for the nightly random verse. 'Casualty' made it into the heavy rotation spot before 'One Step Closer' closed out the first half of the show. As the band is returning to their 360 stage setup with this tour, the crew flipped the instruments onstage around to face the other side of the crowd during the Break/Collapse Transition, before the half piano-half full band 'Lost' started off the next half of the show. Mike performed the Godfather Theme during the intro of 'Overflow,' and actually finally gave the number game before 'Numb' a name - the "Control Colin" 'Numb/Encore' intro, and featured a new genre with Colin playing gospel drums. The encore rotation spot seems to have been moved back into the end of the main set again, and it can now include 'From The Inside' as the song was performed in place of 'A Place For My Head' and 'Let You Fade.' The whole end of Act IV was flipped around as 'Heavy Is The Crown' and 'Bleed It Out' were moved up to close out the main set instead of the encore, and Mike surprised us all in the crowd by rapping a verse of The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Notorious Thugs' over the extended bridge for the first time ever! With 'Bleed It Out' closing the main set, 'Faint' returned as the show closer, closing a show in the United States for the first time since Relief Live! 2015! As far as full shows go, this was the first U.S. show to close with 'Faint' since Kansas City, Missouri in January 2011 on the A Thousand Suns World Tour! While the rotations weren't necessarily the most surprising in Brooklyn, lots of special moments and an energetic performance from the band made it the perfect show to kickoff the new leg of the tour! Things will definitely start to get very interesting with these upcoming Boston shows, as the band's two-night stays are where things usually get quite interesting. Despite being the first show, this show was actually the second date added after the first night sold out. With the first set of rotations out of the way, there are still a large handful of songs that could make an appearance over the next few nights. 'Points Of Authority' could come into play in Act I, while the heavy position in Act III could go to any of 'Given Up,' 'Keys To The Kingdom,' or 'IGYEIH!' 'Good Things Go' and 'Stained' are also lined up for some action as far as the rotating ballads go, and we're still eagerly waiting to see 'A Place For My Head' and 'Let You Fade' have their first moments of this new leg of the North American tour. With their last two-show stay in Frankfurt earlier this month, the band also started making some more structural changes like moving songs around in the Acts and even adding an extra rotation spot for 'Over Each Other' and 'Stained' into Act II. Today (July 30) is the 23rd anniversary of Reanimation as well, so maybe we'll see Mike whip out a special verse from the album for his solo medley! He's celebrated other anniversaries this year this way, bringing out verses of 'Lies Greed Misery' and 'Until It Breaks' for the Living Things celebration and 'Lift Off' and 'I.O.U.' for the Post Traumatic anniversary. The band will definitely make some interesting setlist choices for these two shows in Boston, and we'll be in the crowd ready to take it all in! And there's always room for a huge surprise in terms of whipping out a song we haven't heard yet - lots of online requests for 'Blackout' and 'With You' this year, and we're still waiting on a live debut of 'Unshatter' to round out the full live From Zero discography! What do you think the band will whip out for Boston Night One? Linkin Park performing 'Overflow' live at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 2025! 'Overflow' and a number of other tracks like 'From The Inside' and 'Over Each Other' were performed with 360 production for the first time at this show! PVRIS is opening the first series of dates on the tour, and their first set of the tour really set the tone for the night! Opening with new tracks 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'ANIMAL,' the vigorous energy of Lynn Gunn immediately took centerstage as they got off to a rocking start. The band then blasted into some older hits like 'Dead Weight' and 'My House,' also throwing in some more new music like 'Burn The Witch' and 'GODDESS' to close their set. PVRIS may just be one of the best (or perhaps most fitting) openers yet on this tour, and their set is nothing short of grand even if it's just an opening set. You won't want to miss their performance in Boston as well, as these will be hometown shows for the band! We're still hoping that Lynn makes a guest appearance during Linkin Park's set, or perhaps they can add 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' to the set and get Mike to guest with them instead! That's be a huge surprise, for sure. Don't miss their show if you can make it! PVRIS performing their song 'GOOD ENEMY' to open their set opening for Linkin Park at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 2025. Who's going to the show? The LPLive staff team of myself, Hahninator (Mark), and GlassCastles (Nico) will be making our way up from my house to the great state of Massachusetts - we'll actually be in the seats for this one (along with one of my best friends who's never seen the band), so if you see us or are near the LPU Reserved section, say hi! Weatherman Rogue Soul is live on the scene on the East Coast once again, reporting that while today will be just as disgustingly hot and humid as the last few days, a bit of relief is on the way! It'll be a mostly rainy day in Boston, but the temperatures will drop a bit down to the lower 70s during the day and get cooler from there on. Night Two at TD Garden takes place the night after on August 1 before the band heads back down to my home state of New Jersey with their first show ever at the Prudential Center in Newark on August 3. From there, the band will head up to Canada for two nights in Montréal and one show in Toronto. We've got a long tour ahead of us, and we're sure a lot of surprises are in store for us! We'll see you there! With all the recent Linkinpedia updates we've been doing as far as the show pages show, we'd like your help in expanding them further! We are looking for pictures or scans of a number of items from the band's 2025 tour, including wristbands, tickets, setlists, exclusive pop-up store content, and more. If you have anything to contribute, check out our thread on the matter and submit your pictures directly to us - if they meet the mark we will get them uploaded to the show pages and credit you (and also blur your information out where applicable)! Be sure to check out the site to see our recent changes to the show pages (including marked rotation songs, album breakdowns, and more statistics) if you haven't already, and enjoy the upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers with faster loading times on both sites! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

LPLive has assembled at my house. In the morning, it's officially show day 😈

I am officially at the “I feel so old” age too now LOL but yep! I pretty much spent my entire life with this band, some of my earliest memories are of being in the back of my aunt’s car while she was playing Meteora and Hybrid Theory when I was like, 3 (2003)

Super excited to finally live the real LPLive staff experience of seeing the first batch of shows on the summer tour. Last time the chance came up (Carnivores Tour) I was 14… that was when I became staff, so I could do the pre-show posts while the guys traveled. Crazy how long and its been and how far we’ve all come. Hope to see you guys at the shows, too! Nick and Mark will be crashing at my place this week too, so we’ll be jamming all week long. Gonna be an unforgettable week!

It's been a busy year so far in 2025 for us, but LPLive and Linkin Park are about to get even busier! After a few weeks off, Linkin Park's From Zero World Tour returns to North America for their second leg across the continent this year, and it's kicking off where it all began for the East Coast back in September 2024: the esteemed Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 2025! As it's been less than 12 months since the last pre-show post for Brooklyn, we'll keep it light on the history. What we can discuss in detail is the band's last show at the venue back on September 16, 2024. The third show of the entire From Zero World Tour and the second full show of the band's comeback, the 28 song setlist (performed in the round on the 360 stage) was full of surprises and otherwise cathartic moments. Opening with the debut of 'Inception Intro C' featuring 'Burn It Down' vocals into a massive 'Somewhere I Belong,' Linkin Park ensured their first sets back were as dramatic as they were epic. Act I featured a slew of classics that are now rotation songs in 2025, including all three of 'Crawling,' 'Lying From You,' and 'Points Of Authority' before 'New Divide' (with its returning Moscow Intro) and 'The Emptiness Machine' capped it off. Act II was a little less robust than it is currently, with tracks like 'Waiting For The End' (with its older 2024 Intro, used a couple times this year when the song has been played without 'Where'd You Go' preceding it), 'Castle Of Glass,' and 'Burn It Down' bringing energy and emotion to the crowd. Mike's Solo added more of a hip-hop flair to the set with 'When They Come For Me' and 'Remember The Name' (at the time, the extra verse section hadn't been added in yet). The biggest surprise of the night came in the form of the tour debut of 'A Place For My Head' - the return of the LPLive national anthem! Hahninator and myself were both in the crowd to witness the spectacle, and to say that song changed the course of the crowd may be an understatement. Moshpits erupted everywhere as the band continued tow hip out heavy tracks like 'Given Up' and 'One Step Closer' before the long Break/Collapse Transition for the crew to switch around the positions of the instruments onstage. Mike and Emily returned to the stage to perform 'Lost' in its shortened piano form (the half piano/half full version they play in 2025 debuted in Mexico City at the start of the year), transitioning right into 'Breaking The Habit,' which has since been dropped from the setlist entirely. A number of songs the band played in Act III and Act IV were dropped from the set in 2025, in favor of putting in more new songs from From Zero. The list includes 'Leave Out All The Rest' (the One More Light Tour version), the new acoustic arrangement of 'My December,' and 'Friendly Fire' from Papercuts. The main set ended in familiar fashion with 'Numb' and its 'Numb/Encore' intro (without the number game, which hadn't been construed yet), 'In The End,' and 'Faint.' The three-song encore hit just as hard, with Resolution Intro C leading right into 'Papercut,' followed by the second performance ever of 'Keys To The Kingdom' - a rare rotation song in 2025! The night capped off with 'Bleed It Out,' complete with a verse of 'There They Go' over the extended bridge. The band's first show at the Barclays Center was an incredible time, and certainly beat the hell out of me in the pit! Interestingly, this would've been the band's second show there had the 2015 North American Tour on The Hunting Party World Tour not been cancelled by Chester's broken ankle. The true second show is here, and with all of the changes the band has made to the set, including rotations and new music from From Zero, we're sure this'll be another night to remember! The LPLive live reaction to the return of 'A Place For My Head' at the Barclays Center in New York, New York on September 16, 2024. This was the moment the crowd was truly unleashed - and you can see how Mark and I reacted to it first hand! With the band having nearly 40 performances overall in the state of New York and 24 in New York City alone, we'll just take a look back at some highlights the band has had in the city; prior to the From Zero Tour, the band's last performance in the city itself was an interesting one: an acoustic show for Good Morning America in the subway at Grand Central Station! I was lucky enough to be there to see the band run through acoustic renditions of 'Burn It Down,' 'Heavy,' and 'What I've Done,' amongst others. This was the only proper acoustic set the band had ever done in front of the crowd, and was my first time meeting Chester (and the last time I actually ever saw him). If you rewatch the broadcast, you'll see my dad at the front of the crowd with his camera! The last proper show the band played in the city was at Madison Square Garden in February 2011 on the A Thousand Suns World Tour. This show is legendary amongst fans for the proshot recording released by FUSE TV and the epic setlist the band played, specifically changing things up for the night, including tracks like 'Blackout' and 'When They Come For Me' as an encore opener from the new album, as well as including plenty of fan favorites like 'No More Sorrow,' 'From The Inside,' and 'Lying From You' in the mix. While most remember this show for the epic setlist, this one holds a particularly special place in my heart - this show was the first concert I ever went to! While it set me off on a path I'd never financially recover from, it certainly made its mark on my little 11-year old self, because here I am! Just a few months earlier, the band played the first full show of the A Thousand Suns Tour at New York City's Best Buy Theater, featuring the live debuts of 'Wretches and Kings' and the album's interludes, as well as being the first time 'New Divide' opened a show and the first time 'What I've Done' closed one. The band's first show at Madison Square Garden was on the Minutes To Midnight Tour, where they brought out Jay-Z for the final full performances to date of Collision Course songs like 'Jigga What/Faint' and 'Numb/Encore.' A private show at the Apple Store in Soho the night before was released as a Live EP on iTunes, featuring rare tracks like 'My December' and 'In Pieces.' The band's first headlining United States show of the whole Minutes To Midnight World Tour took place at Webster Hall, another well-known show for its proshot being shown in theaters and online on the eve of the release of the album. The show featured fresh performances of 'No More Sorrow' and 'Given Up' which had just been debuted live just a few shows before in Europe, while 'Bleed It Out' made its live debut so the band could rehearse it before performing it on Saturday Night Live the next day. On the Hybrid Theory and Meteora World Tours, the band frequented the Roseland Ballroom and even the Hammerstein Ballroom in the city, with a number of great recordings from these shows available online! Linkin Park's full performance at Webster Hall in New York City, New York on May 11, 2007. This performance was shown in theaters and broadcast online just three days later, and even features a proshot of the live debut of 'Bleed It Out!' It's been a few weeks since our last show, but the band left things off in Europe with a load of interesting changes that will have us watching eagle-eyed on the setlists for these upcoming shows. The band wrapped up their From Zero European Tour with a final massive stadium show in Saint Denis, France at the Stade de France. Surprises kicked off immediately at this show as 'Crawling' and 'Lying From You' rotated into Act I, with 'Up From The Bottom' being moved up in between them - the first time the song's position in the set changed! Its spot in Act II was replaced by a rogue performance of 'Stained,' the first time the song was not featured as a rotation song in the "ballad" spot later in the set. Moshpits erupted for 'Two Faced' before Joe's Solo and Mike's Solo were performed, with Mike rapping his demo verse of 'Lift Off' over the extended portion of the medley. 'Casualty' appeared in the heavy rotation before 'One Step Closer' wrapped things up. 'Over Each Other' appeared in the ballad rotation, before Act IV saw 'Overflow' with an extended 'The Next Episode' by Dr. Dre intro explode to life. The band had a lot of fun and silly moments at this show, but perhaps the coolest came after 'Overflow' when Emily jokingly started singing the intro of 'Immigrant Song' by Led Zeppelin. The joke continued until the whole band ended up playing the intro and part of the first verse of the song in a proper jam! Following this came 'Numb' with a half-time 'Numb/Encore' intro before, somehow, 'Overflow' accidentally started again instead of 'In The End,' the main set ending with 'Faint' after all these little moments. The encore rotation spot returned to... the encore, with 'A Place For My Head' taking the spot over 'Let You Fade.' 'Heavy Is The Crown' and 'Bleed It Out' wrapped the night up, the latter featuring 'There They Go' over the extended bridge. With all these changes made between the sets in France and two nights in Frankfurt, it's really anyone's guess as to what the band will be doing with the set for the next run of dates! Now that the band is returning to markets they've already played (London, Paris, New York), it seems they are starting to make more dynamic and structural changes to the set, such as moving around songs to different acts and experimenting with where to play other tracks. It must be noted that after performing with the classic end stage setup all year, Linkin Park will be returning to the 360 stage setup for this North American run, and the band has been in rehearsals this past week, likely making sure all the new editions to the set since moving stages are functioning properly. There is always opportunity for them to spend this time working up a new song or two for the setlist as well during this time - band members themselves have mentioned tracks like 'Blackout,' 'Lies Greed Misery,' and 'Runaway' as tracks they'd like to play live eventually, while only one song from the full From Zero album has yet to be performed: 'Unshatter.' There are a score of other tracks we'd love to see this lineup try out live including 'With You' and 'No More Sorrow,' and there's also a good handful of songs the band hasn't touched since 2024. Anything is possible, and we always say it's best to let the band cook - so whatever they serve us for the tour kickoff, we're ready to eat. What are your predictions for the upcoming setlists in the US and Canada? Linkin Park having some fun at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, France by jamming 'Immigrant Song' by Led Zeppelin before performing 'Numb' on July 11, 2025! With a new tour leg comes a new opener, and this time around I think a lot of us will be very familiar with them! Opening the first run of dates in the United States and Canada with Linkin Park will be none other than PVRIS - an alternative rock/pop outfit that has been on the scene for quite some time. Their first record White Noise and their follow up All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell made huge waves across the electronic rock circles back when they came out, and Lynn Gunn continues to push the project in new directions as she's taken head of production, mixing her rock roots with more crystalline and modern dark pop energy. I've had the pleasure of seeing PVRIS twice before, and can attest that their show will bring great vibes and just the right energy to get us ready for Linkin Park! Older songs like 'My House' and 'St. Patrick' may just be shoe-in's for their opening set, while newer tracks like 'ANIMALS,' 'Monster,' and 'Dead Weight' could bring more of that energy while still bringing in PVRIS's fresher vibe to the table. Mike also produced the song 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' from their latest record EVERGREEN, so it'd a nice inclusion into the set as well. It would be awesome to see Lynn guest onstage with Linkin Park at some point on the tour - personally I think she'd sound great on 'Burn It Down!' If you can make it to the venue in time, definitely don't miss out on PVRIS! PVRIS performing 'My House' live at the Citizens House Of Blues in Boston, Massachusetts for a hometown show on June 21, 2024. PVRIS always packs a punch live, and we're sure that their opening set for Linkin Park will be just as electric! Great to see more female-fronted bands join the fray of the From Zero World Tour! Who's going to the show? In classic LPLive fashion, we'll be heading out on the road for the first four shows of the tour as they run up and down my neck of the woods. This'll be my first time hitting the road on tour like this with the boys (last time they toured like this around here, I was 14!), so I'm more excited than ever to jam with the boys and see some of you guys at the shows! Myself, Mark (Hahninator), and Nico (GlassCastles) will be in the pit in Brooklyn, so if you see any of us be sure to say hi! Weatherman Rogue Soul is here and actually reporting to you live from the scene as I am out in the field (aka central New Jersey)! There's nothing to report beyond what anyone living on the eastern United States already understands: it is more humid than I have perhaps ever experienced up here these past few weeks, and it seems unlikely to change any time soon. It's gonna be another hot and sticky Tuesday afternoon and evening, with temperatures likely hitting the lower 80's before noon even hits. Dress light and stay hydrated, because it's going to be a hot one! There will be a Linkin Pizza pop-up on the Saturday after the show (one day before the show in Newark, NJ) at Brooklyn's Paulie Gee's from 11:30am to 6:00pm, featuring food and exclusive merch! After this show, the band heads up to Boston, Massachusetts for a two-night stay at TD Garden before heading back down to New Jersey for their first show ever at the Prudential Center in Newark. We'll see you there! With all the recent Linkinpedia updates we've been doing as far as the show pages show, we'd like your help in expanding them further! We are looking for pictures or scans of a number of items from the band's 2025 tour, including wristbands, tickets, setlists, exclusive pop-up store content, and more. If you have anything to contribute, check out our thread on the matter and submit your pictures directly to us - if they meet the mark we will get them uploaded to the show pages and credit you (and also blur your information out where applicable)! Be sure to check out the site to see our recent changes to the show pages (including marked rotation songs, album breakdowns, and more statistics) if you haven't already, and enjoy the upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers with faster loading times on both sites! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

We have once again reached the end of the road my friends, but the action has not let up! Linkin Park will be wrapping up their From Zero European Tour with one more massive stadium show at the largest stadium in the country: the 80,000 capacity Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France on July 11, 2025! It wasn't long ago at all since Linkin Park last played in the Paris area - months, in fact! Linkin Park's most recent show in the city was in November 2024 at the Paris La Défense Arena, kicking off the second "leg" of dates in 2024 following the launch of the From Zero era. At the time, we had only been privy to three songs from the record: lead single 'The Emptiness Machine,' League Of Legends anthem 'Heavy Is The Crown,' and the newly release, the first Emily-led track of the new era, 'Over Each Other,' which got its live debut at this show! The massive 28 song setlist featured many songs that didn't make it into 2025 in favor of playing new songs from the new record, including 'Lost In The Echo,' 'My December,' 'Leave Out All The Rest,' 'Breaking The Habit,' and 'Friendly Fire.' It's cool to look back at the 2024 setlists - these shows didn't happen too long ago, but it feels like so much has changed and happened since then as far as Linkin Park's live performances go that it feels like a lifetime ago that we were covering this show! The band's last show in France overall was actually just a few weeks ago, when they headlined Hellfest in Clisson for the second time ever, with a powerful set that rocked the infamous crowd with much more success this go around, with the likes of 'Lying From You,' 'From The Inside,' 'Two Faced,' and the European tour debut of 'A Place For My Head' in the encore bringing a metal fervor into the set. As it was relatively recently that we covered the entire history of Linkin Park in Paris, I won't go in too deep with the details (and with 13 overall appearances in the city alone now, there's a lot of details), but we can cover the highlights. The band's first show ever in Europe took place in Europe in January 2001, a small promo show for Rock Sound Magazine at which less than 100 people were in attendance for. The band rocked Paris early on the Minutes To Midnight World Tour, headlining a show at Bercy in May 2007, opening with 'One Step Closer' and ripping the brand new (now essential) outro to 'Faint' to close the show. The band's most legendary moment in Paris has to be - you guessed it - when they whipped out 'A Place For My Head' unrehearsed for the 10th anniversary of Hybrid Theory in 2010 on the A Thousand Suns European Tour, sending both the crowd and the online fanbase into a frenzy! With this being their biggest show in the country by far, we're sure the highlight reel will only grow longer with this show! If you want a full rundown of the band's history in Paris, check out our pre-show post from the 2024 show in Nanterre! Linkin Park performing 'A Place For My Head' impromptu at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France on October 25, 2010 for the 10th anniversary of Hybrid Theory. This was the only full performance of the song on the whole album cycle, and a performance of the song no fan can ever forget. Linkin Park's latest shows were nothing short of a journey. The band headlined two sold-out nights at the Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany, and each night brought a set of surprises! Night One saw the band abandon all sense of reason with the Act I rotations, whipping out three of the tracks being rotated in that spot: 'Cut The Bridge' (which, at this point, is now locked into the setlist permanently) performed once again with the short Moscow Intro, 'Lying From You,' and 'Points Of Authority.' During his solo medley, Mike whipped out 'Until It Breaks' verse three - if you've been around for awhile, you'll remember this one from the old Apaches Intro to 'Waiting For The End!' Following this, 'Keys To The Kingdom' made its first appearance since Grand Rapids, Michigan in May in the heavy rotation spot! The action in Act II didn't stop there, as 'One Step Closer' wrapped things up with Sam Carter from Architects coming out to perform the song with the band! The song became an epic scream-off between Emily and Sam, and with two screamers on deck, the parts Mike usually shouts live were screamed like on the studio version by Sam! 'Stained' took the ballad rotation spot at this show, racking up its fifth performance ever since its debut in Baltimore, Maryland in May. 'Let You Fade' was performed after 'Numb,' with the rotation spot previously held in the encore moving down to the end of the main set. The number game saw 'Numb' performed with a half-time intro and outro as the band continued the trend of continuing the game at the end of the song. Speaking of intros, the extended intro to 'Overflow' saw something especially cool on Night One in Frankfurt, with Mike performing the synth melody of his song 'Nothing Makes Sense Anymore' from Post Traumatic over it, the first time the song has appeared live in any format! Night Two was just as eventful, and hit us with perhaps the biggest surprise yet of the whole tour! Act I got flipped up more, 'Lying From You' staying in but 'New Divide' (reclaiming the Moscow Intro) and 'Crawling' subbing in. In a surprise move, 'Castle Of Glass' was rotated out for 'Over Each Other,' and with 'Good Things Go' featuring later in the set, that brought two of the songs normally played in that one slot into the set! Mike continued to treat fans during his solo medley, continuing the love for The Hunting Party started with the tour debut of 'Keys To The Kingdom' the previous night with the debut of verse one of 'Wastelands' over his medley, the first appearance of the song in any form since 2017! 'IGYEIH' made another massive appearance directly after, and Sam Carter came out once again to rock 'One Step Closer.' 'A Place For My Head' rotated in in place of 'Let You Fade,' and then things got really interesting. The band switched around the end of the show and the end of the main set, with 'Heavy Is The Crown' and 'Bleed It Out' (with a verse of 'Reading My Eyes' over the extended bridge) closing out the main set. The encore featured 'Papercut,' 'In The End,' and a classic closer of 'Faint' with its extended outro. Aside from 'Papercut,' this was the first time all of those songs featured in these respective positions all tour, and the return of 'Faint' as the show closer was a huge hit amongst fans. Linkin Park closing out their second sold-out show with 'Faint' at the Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on July 9, 2025. This was the first time since 2017 that the song closed out a show - which do you prefer as a show closer, 'Bleed It Out' or 'Faint?' Or perhaps we even take it way back and throw in 'One Step Closer' into that mix too! With two nights in Frankfurt and perhaps their most successful European tour ever behind them, what will they whip out to wrap it all up? The band managed to run through an impressive amount of different rotation songs between the two Frankfurt shows, only missing a couple of the heavier songs: 'Casualty,' 'Given Up,' and 'From The Inside.' And to be fair, all those songs had been played in Germany at prior shows on the tour as well. If we've learned anything on this tour, it's that the setlists are truly unpredictable at this point, so it's hard to say what'll be chosen for the final show of the tour. 'A Place For My Head' historically has gone down well in this city, but 'Let You Fade' has yet to be heard by France overall. Mike's solo medley has been a source of a lot of rare material too - would be cool to see him wrap the tour up with a verse from 'High Voltage' or even 'Hands Held High,' but whatever he decides to rap will be nasty no matter what! The last time the band wrapped up a tour leg they debuted 'Let You Fade' during the encore, so who's to say that 'Unshatter' won't finally make its live debut here? Let's hear your predictions below! The band has two opening acts for this show: JPEGMAFIA, who has played a few shows with them already, and ONE OK ROCK, who are making a one-off appearance with the band for the tour! JPEGMAFIA will bring his abrasive hip-hop fervor to the stage with tracks like 'SIN MIEDO' and 'I scream this in the mirror before I interact with anyone' while also bringing a more chaotic, fun energy with tracks like 'SCARING THE HOES' and 'Lean Beef Patty.' JPEG opened for the two shows in Frankfurt and at I-Days in Milan, and will rejoin the band again in the United States for their west coast shows. Japanese rock band ONE OK ROCK will also be supporting Linkin Park as well for the first time ever and the only time on the whole world tour, despite having quite a history with the band. Many of you will remember lead singer Taka from the Chester Bennington Tribute Show in 2017, where he performed 'Somewhere I Belong' with the band. ONE OK ROCK were slated to open for Linkin Park that summer on the One More Light North American Tour, but as that never got to happen, this'll finally be their moment to perform with Linkin Park! With tracks like my personal favorite 'Save Yourself,' as well as others like 'Make It Out Alive' and 'The Beginning' currently in their 2025 set rotation, they'll definitely make this performance count. ONE OK ROCK performing their song 'Save Yourself' live at the Kaohsiung National Stadium in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan on September 21, 2024. This is a band who has been looking forward to this night for a long time - and you should be too if you're going to see them open for Linkin Park in Paris! Who's going to the show? I've had a few days off back Weatherman Rogue Soul is back and happy to report that the tour will be wrapping up with a beautiful day with sunny skies and some hot temperatures! Things will heat up to 29°C during the day on Friday, so be sure to stay cool and hydrated before the show if you're out and about! This leg of the tour may be ending, but it won't be long before Linkin Park are back on the road - they'll be embarking on the longest leg of the tour yet (and the longest leg of any tour they've done since 2014) with a second run of North American shows kicking off in Brooklyn on July 29 before continuing with two nights in Boston and another in Newark. I will see you at all four of these if you're going, and I'll be jamming with Hahninator (Mark) and GlassCastles (Nico) at them too, so get ready for another wild ride and get recharged over the next few weeks as both us and the band gear up for this next part of the tour. Linkin Park will return to Europe in Summer 2026, with headlining shows across the continent (including a stop in Lyon, France) and a number of festival shows including Rock am Ring 2026 and Rock im Park 2026. We've been updating our Linkinpedia show pages over the last few weeks leading up to the tour with new features like more statistics, highlighting rotation songs, a banner at the top of the guide, and lots more, so be sure to head over there and explore what we've been up to! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! And if you haven't noticed, we've made some upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers so both sites should be running a lot more smoothly now! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

We're in the final stretch of the From Zero European Tour, but the fun is not stopping! Linkin Park are back to the festival stage for a final run of festival shows starting with Rock Werchter in Werchter, Belgium on July 3, 2025! This will be Linkin Park's third time performing at the festival, the last time being in 2017 near the end of the One More Light European Tour. The band emerged dramatically to the sound of the legendary 'Fallout' and 'Roads Untraveled' mashup that flowed right into 'Talking To Myself,' opening the show with an electrifying energy. The One More Light Tour setlists flew between eras quickly, highlighting the roads the band has traveled throughout their career, churning through cuts early in the set like 'Burn It Down,' 'The Catalyst,' 'Wastelands,' and 'One Step Closer.' The band dug deeper in some areas of the set, with Mike whipping out 'A Place For My Head' verse one for the new ending of the Experience Version of 'Castle Of Glass' and 'Somewhere I Belong' being rotated in, despite the band playing a festival set. New tracks from One More Light also stated their case as 'Invisible,' 'One More Light,' and 'Heavy' brought a lighter tenderness to the band's hectic setlist. Chester sang the piano version of 'Crawling' from the crowd, with a fan whose friend said that she wanted to sing with him! To top it all off at the end of the show, 'Faint' closed the show rather than 'Bleed It Out' for one of the few times that year. The band's first performance ever at Rock Werchter goes all the way back to 2011, the band headlining the festival during the A Thousand Suns European Tour that summer. The festival setlists this summer were nothing short of thrilling, with this show opening with an unbeatable run of 'The Requiem,' 'The Radiance,' 'Papercut,' 'Lying From You,' and 'Given Up.' With soon-to-be A Thousand Suns classics like 'When They Come For Me' and 'Waiting For The End' also finding their place within the set, the set gave fans a taste of both the old and new with style. Even if relatively safe on paper, the band made some cool choices with the set like playing 'What I've Done' earlier on after 'Given Up' and 'Numb' with the Oppenheimer Outro transitioning into 'Breaking The Habit.' The summer 2011 sets really packed a punch with every show! Interestingly enough, the only other show the band ever played in Belgium up until that point was in 2001, opening for the band that's playing before them on the mainstage: the legendary Deftones! Linkin Park opened for the Back To School Tour in the spring of 2001, the band's first proper European Tour taking them to the city of Deinze. Linkin Park and Deftones have been intertwined for years, Chino being a good friend of the band (appearing on the Mike Shinoda track 'Lift Off') and Linkin Park themselves covering 'My Own Summer (Shove It)' in 2002. Could it be primetime for a collaboration onstage with Linkin Park? Emily Armstrong onstage with Deftones for 'Passenger?' We'll get more into that later... Linkin Park also performed at a different Belgian festival in 2015 - Pukkelpop at the end of The Hunting Party World Tour, bringing rare tracks like 'A Line In The Sand' and 'Rebellion' to the crowds of Belgium. This show brings the band's total amount of shows in Belgium up to five! Linkin Park's full show at Rock Werchter 2017 in Werchter, Belgium on July 1, 2017. A big show with an equally epic setlist, this is definitely a great listen to prep you for tonight's show! The band's last show took place in Düsseldorf, Germany with the first headline show since the band's groundbreaking show at Wembley Stadium in London, England. The band returned to Germany with pretty much the same setlist as the last show there (Berlin, a similarly groundbreaking show at the Olympiastadion) but just as much fervor, ripping through rotations like 'Cut The Bridge,' 'Given Up,' and 'Good Things Go.' 'Let You Fade' featured in the encore for the first time in a few nights, being rotated with 'A Place For My Head' between shows. The number game on 'Numb' was even the same, with the punk rock style being chosen, but this time the band jammed with the style more during the outro, leading to a pretty awesome ending to the song! Other treats including Mike rapping a verse of 'Petrified' over his solo medley (commemorating the Fort Minor show he played there the last time Linkin Park was in town) and him performing 'The Next Episode' by Dr. Dre over the 'Overflow' intro for the second time ever. It was also funny to note that Mike seemed to not be as prepared as he was for previous shows, forgetting to write a little speech in German (he started talking about schnitzel and beer before going into the crowd and asking for a translator), initially forgetting which verse to do for his solo medley, and even thanking the wrong opening band (he accidentally had the crowd cheer for Spiritbox)! Pretty funny, especially since I also forget just about as much at work on a daily basis too. We all have our off days, but these little moments didn't make the performance any less amazing - the band killed it as usual, and have really hit a flying streak coming into the end of this tour! What can we expect to see for this festival set? The band will be hitting the stage let, with a 90 minute set starting at 11:30pm. Every festival set has been unique in its own right, and each set has come with its share of surprises like the headlining shows. The band plays around with the festival set even more than the headlining set, moving songs up and down in position and rotating things in and out - anything's possible here in Werchter! 'From The Inside' or the festival debut of 'IGYEIH' would be epic moments to see, and other possibilities like 'A Place For My Head' or 'Casualty' would also be a treat! It's looking quite possible that this show will be livestreamed by the festival - but at the time of posting, it's not confirmed. Keep your eyes peeled on the https://live.rockwerchter.be/nl/ page tomorrow, and we'll keep you updated on whether or not it looks like the band's set will be streamed live! Linkin Park performing 'Numb' with a punk rock 'Numb/Encore' intro and punk jam outro at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany on July 1, 2025. The band's been continuing the number game style into the outro of the song lately, and it's been leading to some awesome moments like this! The festival has a whole slew of awesome artists performing: on the MainStage alone before Linkin Park will be Deftones, Fontaines D.C., and De La Soul, while other stages will boast the likes of Coheed & Cambria, Iggy Pop, and London Grammar, just to name a few. Though the band hasn't had too many onstage collaborations this cycle (the only two really being Page Hamilton for a one-off 'All For Nothing' in Arlington last year and grandson on 'One Step Closer' throughout this year), the air is rife with possibility at Rock Werchter. Like we mentioned before, a Deftones live collab has been in the books for decades now. Though they aren't playing the song this summer, it's not out of the question that they could bring in 'Passenger' and perform it with Emily. Earlier this year, Hayley Williams from Paramore joined them onstage for 'Minerva,' which is another possibility. Chino coming out for a song would be shocking and epic too - he'd pull of some awesome screams on perhaps 'Crawling' or 'One Step Closer' for sure! We'd love to see the band do some more with other artists at these shows, but we're ready to rock out to both bands no matter what the night holds! Deftones performing 'Minerva' with Hayley Williams at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee on March 26, 2025. Could we see Emily come out during their set for some of the same action? Who's going to the show? Weatherman Rogue Soul reporting a cool day ahead but with pretty clear skies accompanying the moderate temperatures, so look forward to a nice day out with a high of 22°C and a low of 11°C! After this show, Linkin Park plays one final festival of this European run at Poland's Open'er Festival before topping off the tour with two nights in Frankfurt, Germany and a final massive show in Saint-Denis, France. The band takes a few weeks off before kicking things back up for a huge second round of United States shows starting in Brooklyn, two nights in Boston, and Newark (I'll see you at all of them )! Linkin Park will return to Belgium and Werchter next year with the newly announced Werchter-Parklife show, currently slated to wrap up their 2026 European Tour on July 28, 2026. We've been updating our Linkinpedia show pages over the last few weeks leading up to the tour with new features like more statistics, highlighting rotation songs, a banner at the top of the guide, and lots more, so be sure to head over there and explore what we've been up to! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! And if you haven't noticed, we've made some upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers so both sites should be running a lot more smoothly now! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

Ladies and gentlemen, the big day has come! We've been waiting for this one for quite some time. Linkin Park takes the From Zero World Tour back to London, England for its next stop, with the band performing a sold-out show at the legendary Wembley Stadium for what could be their biggest headlining show ever on June 28, 2025! Strap in, as we have quite the history lesson ahead! For the first time on the From Zero World Tour, today's history recap starts with more recent endeavors. Linkin Park's last show in London was just last year, on the initial run of dates in September that kicked off the From Zero Tour. The band performed at the city's O2 Arena, delivering new tracks 'The Emptiness Machine' and the second-ever performance of 'Heavy Is The Crown' after it was released earlier that day. London saw a whole slew of songs that are no longer in the current rotation in the debut of Set B (which features 'Iridescent' vocals in its interludes), including 'Leave Out All The Rest,' 'My December, 'Friendly Fire,' 'Breaking The Habit.' 'Keys To The Kingdom' rotated into the heavy spot mid-set, with Mike giving an LPLive shoutout beforehand! The band returned to the O2 Arena just over a month later to perform a special extended version of 'Heavy Is The Crown' (featuring parts of the Arcane version) for the League Of Legends Worlds Opening Ceremony as well. Linkin Park's performing 'Keys To The Kingdom' at the O2 Arena in London, England on September 24, 2024. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago since the From Zero World Tour started, but looking back at the early shows really tells you how far we've come in this cycle! Now diving further back into the past, the band's previous shows in London were a pair of back-to-back shows in July 2017 at the very end of the One More Light European Tour. Night One took place in the O2 Arena itself, while Night Two was a smaller show at the O2 Academy Brixton, labeled One More Night in London. Both shows featured a slew of One More Light tracks like 'Talking To Myself,' 'Invisible,' and 'Sharp Edges' while the band threw in a few extra rotation songs to extended the setlist as there was no opening act: Night One featured 'Somewhere I Belong' and 'From The Inside,' while Night Two saw 'Points Of Authority' and 'A Place For My Head.' A couple of extra surprises were thrown in, too: Stormzy joined the band for 'Good Goodbye,' which was performed in full for the first time ever at these two shows versus the shorter live version they had been playing on tour prior. Jon Green (many will remember him as the "shadow" member of the band during their Hollywood Bowl 2017 performance) also came out to play guitar and do vocals on 'Nobody Can Save Me.' To top it all off, Mike threw in a verse of 'Reading My Eyes' over the extended bridge of 'Bleed It Out' on Night Two, with 'Bleed It Out' itself being featured in the main set for the first time since 2014. Earlier in 2017, the Mike and Chester also did a couple of special acoustic piano appearances in the city to promote the new record, too. Speaking of 2014, that was when Linkin Park made their next most-recent visit to London with another pair of back-to-back shows at the O2 Arena to round out The Hunting Party European Tour. These were the band's last full shows of the year, and they certainly brought a punch to the setlists! Featuring an assortment of tracks from the new album including 'Guilty All The Same' opening and 'Final Masquerade,' Linkin Park's setlist brought all of the dynamics of their discography together in an eclectic way as shortened songs allowed for more tracks to be fit into the show. Austin Carlile, the former lead vocalist of Of Mice & Men, joined the band to perform 'Faint' at these shows, while current-vocalist and lead guitarist Aaron Pauley came onstage to sing the 'Iridescent' portion of the Ballad Medley with them. Night One featured Set B with 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' and a 'Points Of Authority' verse in the encore during the 'Until It's Gone' transition, while Night Two saw a re-arranged encore with 'Crawling' and a 'With You' verse during the transition. Linkin Park performing 'A Place For My Head' at the Brixton Academy in London, England on July 4, 2017. Linkin Park's two-night stays are always a treat, and the pair in 2017 were no exception! While there was no proper European Tour for the band to visit London on the Living Things World Tour, they did stop there three times during the A Thousand Suns World Tour. The latter stop took place in July 2011, a performance at the iTunes Festival being the band's final European show on the cycle. The band delivered a nasty start to the set with 'The Requiem,' 'The Radiance,' 'Papercut,' 'Lying From You,' and 'Given Up' before diving into tracks like 'When They Come For Me,' 'No More Sorrow,' and 'From The Inside.' The band whipped out all the big stops here, while also delivering an iconic moment in the encore: Mike and Chester doing a piano version of Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep!' Some tracks from this show were released on the iTunes Festival live EP, as well. A pair of headlining show at the O2 Arena in November 2010 also concluded Linkin Park's first A Thousand Suns European Tour, and was the site of the first ever LPU Summit. Night One featured a standard early A Thousand Suns-era setlist, opening with 'The Requiem' into 'Wretches and Kings' before diving back into the classics. Night Two had more surprises, with the band performing a soundcheck for fans earlier in the day and also delivering 'Leave Out All The Rest' and 'The Messenger' acoustic for the first time for fans. The show itself was just as exciting as 'Fallout' and 'The Catalyst' opened the show for the very first time (one of two times on the whole tour) before 'What I've Done,' 'Papercut,' and 'Wretches and Kings' kept the night alive. This show also saw the return of 'From The Inside' for the first time since 2009 after it was rehearsed at the soundcheck earlier in the day. Going back to the Minutes To Midnight World Tour, not only did the band start their tradition of back-to-back nights in London at the O2 Arena to round out the Minutes To Midnight Winter European Tour, but they even played a different city called London (in Ontario, Canada) later that year, too. While the Canada show doesn't exactly fit the bill for this history lesson, the two shows in London, England left a huge impact. The band played two very different setlists between the two nights, with Set T appearing on Night One. This set featured the likes of a 'What I've Done' opening with its epic AMBO Intro followed by 'Faint,' 'No More Sorrow,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' 'Lying From You,' 'From The Inside,' and 'Points Of Authority' to launch the band's stay in the city with epic proportions. 'Hands Held High' saw an uncommon full band performance while other tracks like 'Valentine's Day' and a stripped 'My December' kept the highlights going throughout the night. Mike even performed a short piano cover of Rihanna's 'Umbrella' at a point in the night! And the night wouldn't be complete with an epic second encore of 'A Place For My Head' with a guitar solo intro right into 'One Step Closer' with its brand new extended outro. Night Two opened with 'No More Sorrow' and its long intro, with 'Don't Stay' and 'Somewhere I Belong' keeping the energy going. The band subbed in more tracks like 'The Little Things Give You Away' and a rare 'In Between' to keep things interesting. The band also made some promo appearance in 2007 in the city to promote Minutes To Midnight, playing a full set at London's Astoria. This early-era show saw 'Given Up,' 'No More Sorrow,' and 'What I've Done' fresh off of their debuts while also delivering other epic moments, like 'One Step Closer' opening the show with its gunshot intro and 'Faint' closing with its new extended outro. Linkin Park's full set from the iTunes Festival in London, England on July 4, 2011. An epic setlist and proshot recording, this set featured all the classics as well as a special acoustic cover of 'Rolling In The Deep' by Adele in the encore. Linkin Park last visited London before this on their 2003 Fall Tour in the UK during the Meteora World Tour. Taking place at Wembley Arena (which is right outside Wembley Stadium), this short tour featured a very unique setlist opening with 'Papercut' before diving into rarer cuts like 'It's Goin' Down' and a live version of 'Nobody's Listening' that featured an extended second verse with Mike's verse from 'Standing In The Middle' and a mashup with a number of old-school rap tracks. The encore also featured both 'My December' and 'P5hng Me A*wy' from Reanimation. While the band made a number of promotional appearances in London early in 2003 (including a Top Of The Pops performance that included a soundcheck involving a mashup of 'A.06' and Deftones' 'My Own Summer (Shove It)' - come to mention it, all their promo London appearances that year featured 'A.06' after adamant fans kept requesting it), they also played one headlining show at the Brixton Academy where fans were treated to brand new Meteora songs right after the album's release, which included the likes of 'Session,' 'Hit The Floor,' and 'Easier To Run,' the last of which featured partially on a video on the LPU 4.0 CD. The band's first year of touring Europe took them to London for over six appearances in 2001 during the Hybrid Theory World Tour, the final of which was a highly acclaimed show at the Docklands Arena. With a proshot released online of this show for LPLive's 6th Anniversary in 2012, many fans will be familiar with it as the band whipped out an iconic setlist featuring both Hybrid Theory essentials and b-sides. 'And One' and 'High Voltage' made appearances here, the latter of which was released on the LPU 2.0 CD alongside 'With You.' The encore featured surprises here too with 'My December,' the Joe Hahn 'Blow Your Mind' interlude, and 'By Myself' before the band jammed 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns 'N' Roses prior to 'One Step Closer,' on which Marky Chavez from Adema and Wes Scantlin from Puddle Of Mudd joined them for. The band performed for BBC Radio One's Lamacq Live a few days earlier too, playing Hybrid Theory pretty much in full barring 'Cure For The Itch' and 'High Voltage.' Another show at Brixton Academy concluded the band's US-To-Europe Tour in the early summer, seeing the band open with a thrilling combination of 'A Place For My Head' and 'Forgotten.' To start the encore, Chester came out with an acoustic guitar and sang his song 'Morning After' for the first time ever, something he only did a handful of times in 2001. This song would eventually become part of his side-project Dead By Sunrise, releasing as the Japanese bonus track on their album Out Of Ashes in 2009. The band played also played the Docklands Arena twice that year, though the first was for an opening set on the Deftones' Back To School Tour in March, on which the band also squeezed in their first Top Of The Pops appearance earlier in the tour. The band's very first appearances in London, England were in January of 2001, with a set for BBC Radio One's Evening Session and their very first show in England ever at Tutu's. With all of this considered, today's show will be Linkin Park's 30th overall appearance in London, and their 17th full performance in the city, and we can say with pretty high confidence that the show in 2025 will be one of, if not the most important show the band has played in London yet! Linkin Park's full show AND soundcheck from their 2003 Top Of The Pops performance. Lots of very interesting moments in this soundcheck, including a 'My Own Summer' and 'A.06' mashup as well as a 'Dialate' jam at one point! Now with that all out of the way, let's dive back into the present. Linkin Park's last show of the From Zero World Tour took place in Arnhem, Netherlands as the band settles back into headlining shows this week. Even half-way through their European Tour, Linkin Park continues to whip out surprises as the night kicked off with Inception Intro C (with the 'Burn It Down' theme) went into 'Somewhere I Belong' followed by 'Points Of Authority,' being performed for the first time in nine shows at Greenville, South Carolina. 'New Divide' and 'Castle Of Glass' made their return after being dropped from the last two festival shows, bringing the set back up to its full capacity. 'Stained' made its second appearance in a row for its fourth ever performance, while 'IGYEIH' made its European debut with its third performance ever and its first run since Greenville. During his solo medley, Mike celebrated the anniversary of Living Things by whipping out a super rare verse: 'Lies Greed Misery' verse one made an appearance, it being the first time the song has appeared in any capacity in a set since Las Vegas, Nevada in January 2014. Before he dove into it, Mike also took a second to shoutout LPLive and LPAssociation for helping him keep track of all the anniversaries lately - it's our pleasure, Mike! The surprises don't end there - the number game for 'Numb' returned, with a fan with an "Emily Flip Me Off" sign picking number two which was the "Johnny Cash train shuffle" for the 'Numb/Encore' intro. Mike performed 'Lose Yourself' by Eminem over the intro of 'Overflow' for the first time ever, and the night's surprises rounded out with 'Let You Fade' returning to the encore. A very busy night for both us and the Netherlands, but Linkin Park certainly made their impact on the country once again! What can we expect to hear at Wembley? First of all, this could very possibly be the biggest show the band has ever headlined, with Wembley Stadium having a maximum capacity of 90,000. The band recently broke their own attendance record for a headlining show with their show in Berlin, Germany last week with almost 75,000 in attendance, followed by a huge festival crowd of 78,000 in Milan, Italy for I-Days, but both of these may be shattered with a sold-out Wembley. As we know by now with this tour, it's pretty much impossible to predict what the band will want to do setlist-wise on a nightly basis. However, we're at the point where 90% of the songs they've had on rotation this year have shown up. The main song we have missed in Europe so far is 'Keys To The Kingdom,' which is surprising considering Mike has been keeping up with album anniversaries lately yet skipped over The Hunting Party last week. This song appeared only once on the U.S. leg in May in the heavy rotation, with the band opting for 'Casualty,' 'Given Up,' or IGYEIH' instead. With all three of those seen thus far once in the spot, this could mean that 'Keys' is lined up to take the spot in London again. However, considering that 'Keys To The Kingdom' was ALSO the rotation song at the band's show last year, we wouldn't be surprised if they decide to change it up and play one of the other songs instead - 'Given Up' was a great choice for Berlin as the massive crowd reacted to it in a massive way. 'Cut The Bridge' seems to have been sent back to the rotation slot after having been dropped in Arnhem after 'Points Of Authority' returned, so it looks like that early slot is also up to four different possible songs between 'Cut The Bridge,' 'Lying From You,' 'Points,' and 'From The Inside.' With two 'Stained' performances in a row, it seems likelier that the band will switch things up with 'Good Things Go' or 'Over Each Other' at this show. And for the encore slot, it seems like the choice is in our hands: Mike took to Twitter for another poll, asking fans to vote for one song to be played tomorrow between 'Let You Fade,' 'A Place For My Head,' and 'Points Of Authority.' As of the time of posting this, 'A Place For My Head' is in the lead followed closely by 'Points.' What the setlist may contain is anyone's best guess, but let's hear your predictions! Mike performing his solo medley of 'When They Come For Me' and 'Remember The Name' with Colin featuring verse one of 'Lies Greed Misery' and an LPLive shoutout at the Gelredome in Arnhem, Netherlands on June 26, 2025. It's a pleasure serving both the community and the band members themselves, apparently! 😅 The band has two killer opening acts ready to set the tone before they go on: JPEGMAFIA and Spiritbox! JPEGMAFIA played his first show of the tour with the band at I-Days in Italy, playing a fairly substantial set with material both from his new record and throughout his discography. With new cuts like 'SIN MIEDO' and 'i scream this in the mirror before i interact with anyone,' JPEG's more subversive hip-hop vibe offers a time for the grit to build in the venue. Other tracks like 'SCARING THE HOES' and 'Lean Beef Patty' from his collaboration album with Danny Brown will also bring some fun energy to the set before Spiritbox brings their ethereal, dark energy to the stage. Spiritbox absolutely blew the place up with their last two shows with the band, opening with two cuts from their new record Tsunami Sea: 'Fata Morgana' and 'Black Rainbow.' They whipped out other essentials like 'Circle With Me' and 'Jaded' to really bring the crowd in before closing the set with a couple more cuts from the new record including 'Soft Spine' and 'No Loss, No Love.' The band has curated an excellent array of opening artists for the From Zero World Tour, and this show in London certainly has two of the top artists lined up before them. Don't miss them if you can make it! Spiritbox performing their song 'Black Rainbow' at the Gelredome in Arnhem, Netherlands on June 26, 2025. If you're a fan of metal and heavy music in general, you simply cannot miss Spiritbox's opening set for Linkin Park! Who's going to the show? It seems like this'll be one of the biggest gatherings of Linkin Park fans since 2024 (possibly even before that), with a whole slew of big guests from the community will be there! From LPLive alone, Hahninator (Mark), AndOne (Jonas), sckofelng (Garo), and PEPPEPARK will all be in attendance, as well as other beloved members of the community including Jon Barker of LPFuse, just to name a couple. Adam Ruehmer and even very possibly Brad Delson may also be around, so keep your eyes peeled for pretty much everyone you could think of at Wembley! Unfortunately our beautiful day streak is ending, but that doesn't mean it'll be a bad day - on the contrary, though it'll be cloudy, it'll be a hot 29°C (I know you UK guys don't do manage well with the heat) during the day before dipping down to a nice 17°C at night, so dress lightly for the show and stay hydrated! If you're around today or before the show tomorrow, Linkin Park has plenty for you to do between your sightseeing! A pop-up store will be open on Old St. in London featuring exclusive merch and classic designs. The store will be open from 11am to 8pm on Friday and Saturday, and will remain open on Sunday from 12pm to 6pm. A few fan meetups have also been planned by the band, with a gathering at Waxy O'Connor's on Friday night starting at 8pm and at Boxpark Wembley from noon to 4pm tomorrow. Lastly, fans are putting together a fan documentary surrounding Linkin Park's Wembley Stadium show and are requesting clips to be submitted, so check that out if you are interested in participating! After this show, the band heads back to Germany for a headlining show in Düsseldorf before taking on the final festivals of the tour in Rock Werchter in Belgium and the Open'er Festival in Poland before wrapping up the leg with two headlining shows in Frankfurt and a massive show in Saint Denis, France. The band has a few weeks off following their France show before kicking up a massive second round of United States tour dates at the end of July going all the way into September. We've been updating our Linkinpedia show pages over the last few weeks leading up to the tour with new features like more statistics, highlighting rotation songs, a banner at the top of the guide, and lots more, so be sure to head over there and explore what we've been up to! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! And if you haven't noticed, we've made some upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers so both sites should be running a lot more smoothly now! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

We are halfway through one of the biggest weeks in Linkin Park live history, and the festivities continue with the next stop on the From Zero World Tour: Linkin Park are headed to the Netherlands to play their first show ever in the city of Arnhem, at the esteemed Gelredome on June 26, 2025! It's been quite some time since Linkin Park last performed in the Netherlands, last stopping in Amsterdam on the One More Light European Tour. This sold-out show at the Ziggo Dome saw many One More Light tracks come to life in the massive setlist, including 'Talking To Myself,' 'Sharp Edges,' and the return of 'Battle Symphony' after it had been dropped for a few shows. The band rotated in 'From The Inside' late in the setlist to give old-school fans a taste of the old days, while also including tracks like 'Breaking The Habit' and a piano version of 'Crawling' to further scratch that itch. 'New Divide,' 'Invisible,' 'In The End,' 'Numb,' and 'Heavy' from One More Light Live all come from this show, as well! Mike and Chester had also visited Amsterdam earlier in the year to promote the record for the Up Close with Chester and Mike event, performing an acoustic piano set consisting of songs like 'What I've Done' and 'Burn It Down' and holding a Q&A with fans. The band's last show in the Netherlands before this was another sold-out show at the Ziggo Dome, meaning that with today's show, the band's up to a three-show streak of sold-out headlining shows in the country! This show took place toward the start of The Hunting Party European Fall Tour in 2014, and was also the site of the 12th LPU Summit! Before the show, LPU members attending the event were treated to a soundcheck which featured the band jamming and performing songs like 'A Place For My Head' and a super rare performance of the "reggae version" of 'Burn It Down!' Meanwhile at the actual show, fans were treated to new tracks like 'Guilty All The Same' and 'Final Masquerade.' Austin Carlile, formerly of Of Mice & Men, joined the band for 'Faint' for the first time since the Carnivores Tour as well! Mike also whipped out the rare verse from Nick Catchdubs' remix of 'Skin To Bone' from Recharged over his solo medley, as well. Linkin Park's full soundcheck from the 12th LPU Summit at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Netherlands on November 7, 2014. Check out the performance of the 'Burn It Down' reggae version at the 2 minute mark, and stick around for 'A Place For My Head,' which wouldn't be played onstage on the tour until 2015! The band's previous visit to the country was for the Pinkpop festival in 2012, the second stop on the Living Things European Tour that opened the world tour. Opening with a legendary run of 'A Place For My Head' with its new intro, 'Given Up,' 'Faint,' 'With You,' 'Runaway,' and 'From The Inside,' this show was nothing short of epic right from the start. Fans got a taste of the new album with 'Burn It Down' and 'Lies Greed Misery,' while also treating them to their first taste of A Thousand Suns material after having missed the country on their world tour with 'Waiting For The End' and 'The Catalyst.' The band's previous show in the country before this was also at the festival, performing at Pinkpop 2007 near that start of the Minutes To Midnight European Tour. Opening with 'One Step Closer' into 'Lying From You,' this show brought that 2007 energy in a ferocious way. With songs like 'The Little Things Give You Away' and 'No More Sorrow' fresh off the presses, fans both new and old had plenty to jam to at this show. Linkin Park had made two other appearances in the Netherlands before this, both on the Hybrid Theory World Tour. The latter was their first headlining show in the country, closing out their European Tour in September 2001. Their very first show there, however, was earlier that year in March, opening for Deftones on their Back To School Tour. We don't have a setlist for either of these shows, so if you were there and happen to remember any details, let us know! Arnhem brings the total amount of shows up to seven now (with eight overall appearances in the country), and we can say under good authority that this one may be the most massive yet! Linkin Park's latest show of the tour was at the I-Days festival in Milan, Italy, with the band performing to a massive crowd of 78,000 people and delivering a massive setlist to boot! The band changed things up for this show, performing a longer festival set and adding in some rotations. Act I featured three songs that have been in and out of the set all at the same time: 'Crawling' returned to its original #2 spot in the setlist where it was for 2024, while 'Cut The Bridge' and 'Lying From You' followed before 'The Emptiness Machine,' with 'New Divide' being dropped for a third show in a row. 'Where'd You Go' made its second festival appearance (the first being Sonic Temple earlier this year) before 'Waiting For The End,' and while 'Castle Of Glass' was dropped in the spot following, the solo medleys made their first festival appearances, and Mike whipped out Verse 3 of 'Until It Breaks' over his! 'Two Faced' took the heavy rotation position before 'One Step Closer.' The ballad rotation made its festival debut as well, with 'Stained' being performed for the third time ever and the first time since Raleigh, North Carolina in May. In the encore, 'A Place For My Head' replaced 'Let You Fade' once again as they battle out for the encore spot between sets. 'A Place For My Head' seems to be the festival favorite now with 'Let You Fade' being a headlining special. Linkin Park performing 'Heavy Is The Crown' live at the I-Days festival in Milan, Italy on June 24, 2025. Emily pulls off nearly the full scream here, stopping just a few seconds short but pulling off an awesome and dramatic display while doing so! What awaits us in the Netherlands? This is the first headlining show since broke their own headlining attendance record in Berlin, Germany last week. We can expect a full setlist to return, but a few questions remain given the changes made in Italy: will Act I remain in the new format with two rotations, or will 'New Divide' make its return? And which song will come out victorious in the encore between 'A Place For My Head' and 'Let You Fade?' Other than that, we can speculate about the rotation slots, especially given that there are a few songs we have not seen in quite some time. 'Points Of Authority' has yet to be seen in Europe at all in the early rotation spot, while all the other songs it shares the slot with have already been played on tour. In the heavy spot, we've seen 'Casualty' and 'Given Up' so far, but no sign of 'Keys To The Kingdom' (despite The Hunting Party celebrating its anniversary recently) or 'IGYEIH.' All the ballads have made an appearance, but each song has only made one appearance, with 'Over Each Other' being out for the longest having not been played since Hannover. We're sure the band is waiting for the right moment to whip these all out, but it feels like the Netherlands might be the perfect place for some of them! What are your predictions for the setlist in Arnhem? We've only got one opening act lined up for Arnhem, but they are perhaps the most anticipated combination of the whole From Zero World Tour! Spiritbox will be performing before the band for their second of three shows on the tour. The hottest new metal band on the scene this year, Spiritbox certainly made a massive impression on Linkin Park fans in Italy! Performing classics like 'Holy Roller' and 'Circle With Me,' Spiritbox's set introduced the Linkin Park audience to their mixture of heaviness and ethereal melodies. New tracks from their latest record Tsunami Sea made up a majority of the set, opening with 'Fata Morgana' before getting into 'Black Rainbow' and 'Soft Spine' later in the show. Closing with 'No Loss, No Love,' Spiritbox's set was nothing short of monumental. Definitely don't miss their set if you can make it! Spiritbox performing 'Soft Spine' at the I-Days festival in Milan, Italy on June 24, 2025. The band really erupts onstage, and will prove to be one of Linkin Park's most massive openers ever! Who's going to the show? Weatherman Rogue Soul here to report that our streak of great days continues (loosely) with Arnhem - there'll be some rain showers in the morning and potentially more throughout the day, but the skies are expected too clear and the sun will shine on the city in time for fans to enjoy the day before the show! Temperatures will hit a peak of a calm 23°C, and won't dip down much with a low of 15°C. After this show, Linkin Park will finally perform their highly anticipated sold-out show at Wembley Stadium in London, England on Saturday before returning to Germany for a show in Düsseldorf. From there, the band returns to their festival run with shows at Rock Werchter in Belgium and the Open'er Festival in Poland before wrapping up the tour with two nights in Frankfurt and a massive show in Saint-Denis, France! We've been updating our Linkinpedia show pages over the last few weeks leading up to the tour with new features like more statistics, highlighting rotation songs, a banner at the top of the guide, and lots more, so be sure to head over there and explore what we've been up to! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! And if you haven't noticed, we've made some upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers so both sites should be running a lot more smoothly now! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

We are officially back on the road, and after some site upgrades over the weekend, LPLive is more ready than ever for what's next on the From Zero World Tour! Linkin Park continues their festival run with a show for I-Days in Milan, Italy on June 24, 2025 for their first show in the city in eleven years! This will be the band's second time performing at the festival, with their last appearance there actually being their last appearance in Italy, on the One More Light European Tour stop in Monza where the band played a powerful set, opening with a legendary combination of the 'Fallout' and 'Roads Untraveled' intro into 'Talking To Myself.' Featuring a number of One More Light tracks like 'Good Goodbye' with its live verse by Mike and 'Invisible,' the band brought the album to live onstage while also delivering upon the hits like 'Burn It Down' and 'Papercut.' Despite this being marketed as a festival show, the band played more or less their entire headlining set, only dropping one rotation set to accommodate the time. The band's last appearance in Milan itself was way back in 2014, at the start of The Hunting Party World Tour near the end of its first European leg. The band performed at the Alfa Romeo City Sound event with support from Fall Out Boy, delivering new tracks like 'Guilty All The Same' and 'Wastelands' to Italy for the first time. The 2014 setlists featured many shortened versions of songs to fit in more tracks to the setlist, and while this was a controversial choice amongst fans, this did lead to the band including a number of rarer tracks as a treat including 'A Light That Never Comes' and 'Runaway.' The band put together a fan-filmed live video for 'Until It's Gone' using footage from this show, including the fans in the album release just a week later! Linkin Park's full performance at I-Days in Milan, Italy on June 17, 2017. This was my pre-show post watch while I wrote this all up, and I'm frankly pretty blown away by the band here. Incredible performances all around from everyone here, and the filming of this pro-shot is award-worthy. Definitely check this show out if you need something to tide you over until this next one! Prior to this, it had been another eleven years since Linkin Park had performed in Milan. Their last show in the city before 2014 was in 2003, the legendary first show of the Meteora World Tour. Kicking off the LP Underground Tour, the band premiered a whole slew of new music from Meteora for the first time including 'Don't Stay,' 'Hit The Floor,' and 'Easier To Run.' A number of songs that are now live essentials also got their live debuts here, including 'Faint,' 'From The Inside,' and 'Lying From You.' 'Somewhere I Belong,' the album's lead single, hadn't even been released yet, coming out the next day in the United States and a month later internationally. Lots of world premieres for songs that became part of our lives not soon after (or perhaps long after, depending on when you joined the Linkin Park train)! The band performed in Milan twice on the Hybrid Theory World Tour, the second being a particularly popular performance amongst fans. An invite-only MTV Live show took place in Milan in September 2001, and while the twelve-song set may have been the shortest on that leg of the tour, those twelve songs delivered a crazy punch. Opening massively with 'With You' and 'Runaway,' the band burst into a number of Hybrid Theory favorites like 'A Place For My Head' and 'Pushing Me Away.' The band even included the b-side 'High Voltage' in the setlist! The band's very first show in Milan was earlier in the year in March 2001, opening for the Deftones' Back To School Tour. While shorter than their show later that year and featuring many similar songs, the band made sure to win Deftones fans over with raucous moments like 'By Myself' and 'Forgotten.' Hopefully the band's fifth appearance in the city will be just as monumental as their previous ones, and that it won't take another eleven years for them to come back next! The full MTV Live special from Linkin Park's performance at Rolling Stone in Milan, Italy on September 19, 2001. A nasty selection of songs here that really capture that old, unhinged Linkin Park live energy! Linkin Park's last show was at Hellfest in Clisson, France, and was nothing short of epic. After a triumphant return following a cancelled show in Switzerland, Linkin Park resumed their tour with energy and fire - literally! With production that featured perhaps the most pyro that's ever been used at a Linkin Park show, the band truly raised hell at Hellfest, after a particularly hard performance in 2017 (which coincidentally was the show after their 2017 I-Days performance) due to a rough crowd. This time around, the reception was a lot more welcoming as the band burst into their E90 setlist, opening with the Inception Intro A (with the 'Castle Of Glass' theme) into 'Somewhere I Belong.' The band ripped the festival wide open with their first run of songs, bursting into 'Lying From You,' the first 'From The Inside' performance since Rock For People in Czechia (in place of 'Crawling'), and 'The Emptiness Machine.' In Act II, 'Two Faced' erupted while 'Waiting For The End' maintained its spot in the festival set before 'Up From The Bottom' exploded into action. 'A Place For My Head' made a surprise return for the first time this European Tour, replacing 'Let You Fade' in the encore, likely to appease the heavier crowd. Mike even whipped out a rare 'Reading My Eyes' verse during the bridge of 'Bleed It Out' - the first time since Grand Rapids, Michigan earlier this year and for the third time this whole tour. The band nailed it with their second Hellfest performance, and we're sure their third will be just as huge in the future! As far as what we can expect to see at I-Days, it's hard to say! Linkin Park seem to treat their Italian festival shows as full on headlining shows, playing pretty much full sets at these versus an abbreviated, single-focussed set typical of festivals. In Rock In Roma in 2015, the band even played 'A Place For My Head' in honor of a fan who passed away before the show. The 2017 set at I-Days was also more or less a full set, minus a couple songs. It's been quite some time since we've last heard 'IGYEIH' or 'Stained' in the rotations, as well as other rotation songs like 'Keys To The Kingdom.' Milan would be a great opportunity to whip out some songs that haven't been played in awhile, since it's been almost ten years since the band was last in Italy. And maybe we'll finally see 'Unshatter' played live to complete the From Zero live discography! Time will tell, but we know the band has something good in store for Italy. The band already brought the goods in the form of food, launching the Linkin Pizza da Zero pop-up on June 23, offering food and exclusive merch to fans who could make it (band members even showed up themselves to greet fans!). Linkin Park performing 'The Emptiness Machine' at Hellfest in Clisson, France on June 22, 2025. As you can tell from this video, the band received a much better reaction this go around at Hellfest and had a shitload of fire to make their presence even more known. The band has a whopping three opening acts for this show: JPEGMAFIA, Jimmy Eat World, and Spiritbox. JPEGMAFIA is an indie hip-hop artist that has incorporated a lot of metal and rock into his productions. His latest album I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU is full of grittier tracks like this, incorporating distorted guitar riffs into his moody verses. He'll be opening for Linkin Park on upcoming European dates as well as the west coast dates on the upcoming United States leg, so get ready to be hearing a lot more about him in the coming weeks! Following him is the legendary Jimmy Eat World, an American rock band known for hits like 'Bleed American' and 'The Middle,' and honestly need no introduction as they've not only been part of the scene for longer than Linkin Park has, but the fanbases share quite the overlap and the bands have shared the stage on multiple occasions before! And finally before Linkin Park will be the long-awaited opener Spiritbox, a relative newcoming band on the scene but one that has cemented their place in metal. Led by the lovely and ferocious Courtney LaPlante, this Canadian metal band has become one of the most popular metal bands on the current scene with massive tracks like 'Rotoscope' and 'Circle With Me.' Their latest record Tsunami Sea dropped this March and features tracks as grandiose and heavy as ever, such as 'Soft Spine' and 'Fata Morgana.' It'll be epic to see two of the biggest female-fronted bands on the planet to share the stage - and we're hoping we see Emily and Courtney share the stage in some capacity in the coming shows, as Spiritbox will be joining the From Zero World Tour for the next couple of European dates! Don't miss this epic lineup of bands if you can make it! Spiritbox performing 'Soft Spine' with Poppy and the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky on September 29, 2024. Spiritbox knows how to demand a huge crowd's attention, and we're sure they'll make quite the statement opening for Linkin Park on select European dates! What song do you think Courtney LaPlante should guest on during a Linkin Park set? Who's going to the show? Our staff member PEPPEPARK and our favorite Twitter friend BroodingAnanas will be at the show, so be sure to say hi if you see them! Weatherman Rogue Soul here and happy to report that the beautiful weather will continue for the From Zero World Tour in Milan! However, it will hot! Temperatures will hit a whopping 35°C in the afternoon and only drop down to 26°C at night, so be sure to dress light and stay hydrated all day! Linkin Park's From Zero European Tour is now reaching its halfway point, and we have some truly big shows ahead of us this week. After I-Days, the band heads to Arnhem, Netherlands for a huge show at the Gelredome before playing what could possibly be the biggest headlining show of their career (beating out Berlin a few days ago) at Wembley Stadium in London, England. From there, the band returns to Germany for a show in Düsseldorf before picking up two last festival appearances at Rock Werchter in Belgium and the Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland. We've been updating our Linkinpedia show pages over the last few weeks leading up to the tour with new features like more statistics, highlighting rotation songs, a banner at the top of the guide, and lots more, so be sure to head over there and explore what we've been up to! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already! And if you haven't noticed, we've made some upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers so both sites should be running a lot more smoothly now! We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!