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I am not sure where you are getting this impression from, but I don't have that opinion at all.

I mean it more as in: treat it like any other band or music I enjoy listening to and accept that the magic is gone for me.

Just came back home from the movie. What a weird experience somehow. I think I've never seen anyone in LP merch in my home town but a lot of people were wearing it tonight. Was surprised to see some familiar faces in the movie itself. Movie was a good watch, glad I went to see it. The whole From Zero era was a surreal and weird experience for me personally. I've never really re-connected with the band. Today felt like closure to this phase. Maybe it's time to move on.

LOATR is the expected highlight for me. So great to have this on streaming. What’s going on with The Catalyst though? The buildup in the end just doesn’t hit as it should in my opinion. The drums are a little bit disappointing and don’t sound as grand as they should and then it just doesn’t recover somehow.

Here is my cynical prediction of how this will go: First Unshatter in cinemas for the cinema money. Then after a while Unshatter on Streaming (e.g. Netflix) for the streaming money. Once the streaming licensing runs out there will be a physical release of Unshatter as it was shown in cinemas. Then eventually there will be a deluxe release with the full show.

I think a lot can (and should) be discussed about LPU, it's current state, demos, meet & greets, pre-sale and ticket access etc. but all of that aside, in my opinion a LPU package should include at least a t-shirt and I do not understand why they are not doing it. Right now you get one collectible and a bunch of random... stuff? I am lacking the proper English word and I don't want to call it trash (although I would argue the disposable camera from last year definitely qualifies for that term by the very nature of the item), but I think it is kinda ironic that with the pouch they are recycling unused stuff that just lays around and put it to new use while also creating new useless stuff that will just lay around in people's collections and the only purpose to it seems to be "it seemed like a fun idea". I guess in the end they always did that, but you also always had at least one useful item in there: a shirt.

I am happy for the band that they have the success, but for my very own interest I do hope that interest will go down in the future. I hate stadium shows. I'm afraid that I have to deal with them for the foreseeable future here in Germany though.

I think it is interesting that they include LOATR but decided to omit BID. One would think that they regard BID as a more important song in the live set since it's played in all shows while LOATR was more or less dropped after 2024. So why make the opposite decision for the album? Anyway, I am happy with it since I favor a high quality recording of Mike singing LOATR over BID.

Oh wow you are right. But both unshattermovie.com and linkinpark.com link to the Warner store.

21,99€ in Germany

So since the CD price in Germany (21,99€) seemed kinda high to me I did some digging and compared it to other releases of bigger artists this year. I've always looked at prices in the artist's own shop so it is a fair like-for-like comparison. The closest CD release I found price-wise was Dua Lipa's live album at 18,99€ which includes her whole set on 2 CDs. Any other regular CD release I looked at was cheaper. Kinda sad to see a premium price tag on a release that I consider a compromise (i.e. not containing the whole show). I don't see any information on their product listing that would justify that higher price. But now you can barely make out a whole guitar part in this mix (the intro/verse riff or however you want to call it) so I think it is a hard stretch to say that one is closer to the album mix than the other. In general I think the sound of the mix is great though. Alex' guitar just needs to be louder and it would be a 10/10 in my opinion.

Use multiple CDs then. This costs 21,99€ for one disc. The same price as the FZ Deluxe Edition that comes with 2 discs. 21,99€ for a regular CD is kinda ridiculous anyway.

What's up with the mix? Alex' guitar is barely audible. You can barely hear the intro/verse parts and the bridge sounds super awkward.

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One of my favorite shows I‘ve been to. Crowd was very active and it is always nice meeting everyone.