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Tonight, Linkin Park is making their return to the Netherlands, playing at a show in the city of Arnhem at a stadium venue called the GelreDome. Playing the opening slot is one of the most talked-about acts in modern-day metalcore, Spiritbox, who also just played a set ahead of Linkin Park's headline performance at I-Days Festival event in Milan, Italy (in a line-up that also included JPEGMAFIA, who will also be supporting LP later on in the tour).

This will be Linkin Park's first time playing in Arnhem but it's certainly not their first time in the Netherlands; the band has performed six shows in the country prior to this, four of which were tour dates in its capital city, Amsterdam. Their first Netherlands show was back in early 2001, at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on March 19 as a support act for Deftones on their Back to School tour. When it comes to what songs the band played and in what order, we have no precise information, but there are other shows on the same tour leg where setlist information does exist, indicating that Linkin Park typically played a 10-song set comprising every song from Hybrid Theory except for "Crawling" and "Cure for the Itch".

Later in the year, on September 24, 2001, Linkin Park returned to the Heineken Music Hall during the European leg of their own Hybrid Theory tour. Once again, we don't have any definitive information on the setlist for this show. What we do know is, having become a headlining act, the band's setlists at this point had grown to include "Crawling" and a few songs from beyond the Hybrid Theory tracklisting: "Step Up" and "And One" from the 1999 Hybrid Theory EP (which would be re-released for official fan club members at the end of 2001), and "High Voltage", a Hybrid Theory B-side which evolved from an earlier version also found on the 1999 EP. Though "Cure for the Itch" was typically not performed throughout the 2001 shows, and probably wasn't for either of these Amsterdam shows, the setlists did usually include a Mr. Hahn solo segment.

Linkin Park didn't perform in the Netherlands again until May 28, 2007, shortly after the May 14 release of their third album Minutes to Midnight. The band was on the line-up for the Pinkpop festival in Landgraaf, performing right before headliners The Smashing Pumpkins. This setlist, typical for many of the 2007 shows, opened with "One Step Closer" and closed out with "Faint", and also included Minutes to Midnight cuts such as "Given Up", "No More Sorrow" and even the epic closer "The Little Things Give You Away". Linkin Park's set was not broadcast on TV or online, so various audience recordings from throughout this set are all we have. It must be noted, however, that Linkin Park fans back then were not the expert camera operators that they are today, and the recording technology they had could not produce the quality we're used to now.

In 2021, an enterprising fan, Ultimate Spidey, combined many of these recordings to produce a video encompassing the whole Pinkpop 2007 set.

Linkin Park's next time in the Netherlands after this saw them back on the Pinkpop line-up for May 27, 2012, this time as headliners on the Main Stage. This was very early on in a 2012 European tour which began a month out from the release of the band's fifth studio album LIVING THINGS, and which included headlining sets at various European festivals. This Pinkpop performance was the band's second tour date for 2012 and the entire tour cycle. It kicked off with the extended "A Place for My Head" intro which the band had debuted the show prior, and included various things which would go on to be staples of the LIVING THINGS shows, such as:

• the new album cut "LIES GREED MISERY", in its the second performance ever;
• a "ballad medley" comprising "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day" and "Iridescent";
• an extended intro for "Waiting for the End" which featured a rap verse from the (then-unreleased) LIVING THINGS deep cut "UNTIL IT BREAKS";
• more Hybrid Theory songs: "With You", "Points of Authority" and "Runaway", which had been brought back into the setlists after not being played at all during the A Thousand Suns tour cycle;
• a cover of the Beastie Boys song "Sabotage" which the band performed as part of "Bleed It Out".

Ultimate Spidey once again came through with a video of the full Pinkpop 2012 set made from various audience-filmed videos, but this time also armed with the official Digital Souvenir Package audio recording officially released by Linkin Park.

During the Hunting Party tour cycle in 2014, Linkin Park made a return to Amsterdam, with their own sold-out show at the Ziggo Dome on November 7, part of a European tour leg closing out the year. As was typical of sets this far into that tour cycle, the show included cuts from The Hunting Party including singles "Guilty All the Same" (which was the opening song) and "Until It's Gone", as well as deep cuts like "Wastelands", "Rebellion" and "Final Masquerade". During "Faint", which closed out the main set, Linkin Park was joined on-stage by Austin Carlile, the frontman of supporting band Of Mice & Men.


This show was preceded by an LPU Summit, the third one of that year. Attendees were able to watch a soundcheck, during which the band made time to jam on-stage and grace their audience with a reggae rendition of "BURN IT DOWN", among other things.


In early 2017, as part of the lead-up to Linkin Park's seventh studio album One More Light, band members Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington did a promotional tour throughout Europe, doing brief and intimate performances with piano-and-vocal arrangements of songs. One of these appearances was in Amsterdam on March 24, at a music hall venue called Melkweg Oude Zaal. Shinoda and Bennington performed piano-based versions of past singles "BURN IT DOWN", "Crawling" and "What I've Done", as well as the One More Light lead single "Heavy".


Later on in the year, on June 20, 2017, Linkin Park played a sold-out at the Ziggo Dome as part of a mid-year European tour in support of One More Light, which had been released a month prior. The band's live album One More Light Live, released in December of 2017, features recordings of several songs from this show, including "Numb", with an extended arrangement which featured elements from the hit mash-up "Numb / Encore". An official video of this performance was uploaded to YouTube as part of the One More Light Live rollout:


Though Linkin Park was recently forced to cancel their show in Switzerland last week due to illness, fan consensus says the band has returned to the stage with a vengeance, bringing no shortage of energy to the stage during their festival sets at Hellfest in Clisson, France and, most recently, I-Days in Milan, Italy, at the outdoor venue Ippodromo Snai La Maura. This show saw the band making some changes to the typical festival setlists: among other things, they uncharacteristically performed both "Cut the Bridge" and "Lying From You" early on in the set right after "Crawling", and left out "New Divide".

Later on in the set, the band brought back the From Zero cut "Stained", a song which hasn't been performed since the Raleigh, NC show during the U.S. leg back in May (11 shows ago). "A Place for My Head" was also performed during the encore segment, in place of "Let You Fade". The band's performance of "Heavy Is the Crown" also featured Emily Armstrong apparently delivering an unbroken scream during the bridge, which is something of a rarity now:


Tonight's show will see the band's setlist back at full headline capacity, playing to fans who sold this show out very quickly. After the unusual changes to the setlist for their most recent festival performance, the differences between them and the band's longer headline show setlists are becoming fewer and fewer. Some of the songs the Arnhem crowd likely will get to hear are "New Divide" and "Castle of Glass"; other songs that are possible include "Good Things Go", "Over Each Other" and "Let You Fade", songs which are typically swapped in and out night-to-night. Looking past that, there are songs that are slightly rarer, such as the heavy hitters "From the Inside", "Given Up" and "A Place for My Head", which haven't been performed quite as consistently as other songs throughout this tour leg (which means they make nice surprises).

Beyond just setlist choices, fans in Arnhem and beyond are almost certainly also curious if any guest performers from a certain supporting band might appear on-stage with Linkin Park tonight ...

Discuss all this and more on our message board!

Linkin Park continues their European tour tomorrow with a headlining performance at the I-Days festival in Milan, Italy. This will be the sixth show of the 2025 summer run, following five prior shows across Austria, Czechia, Germany, and France. Though the band had to cancel their appearance in Bern, Switzerland, due to internal medical issues, they returned strong with a festival set at Hellfest on Sunday—and all signs point to the momentum continuing in Milan.


I-Days stands apart from the other festivals on Linkin Park’s summer itinerary, functioning more as a multi-month series of headliner shows than a typical weekend event. Launched in Bologna in 1999 as Independent Days, the festival was rebranded in 2016 and is currently held in Milan. Linkin Park headlines the fourth I-Days Milano date on June 24 this year, playing alongside Spiritbox, Jimmy Eat World, and JPEGMAFIA—and with each date running as a standalone concert, the band should be playing a full or near-full set!

Milan has also had the pleasure of welcoming yet another pop-up event from the band, like Linkin Park did in April when visiting Austin, Texas. While Austin's pop-up revolved around the "Linkin Pork" tacos and their friendly pig mascot, the band has focused on pizza for their pop-up in Milan. Today's "Linkin Pizza" pop-up, in collaboration with local pizzeria Da Zero, features a special pizza menu, exclusive merchandise, and has even brought surprise appearances from the band!


In terms of history, Milan is a familiar city for Linkin Park—in fact, the majority of their shows in Italy have taken place here. This includes their first-ever Italian show in March 2001 while supporting Deftones. The band then returned to Milan in September 2001 for a shorter show at the now-defunct Rolling Stone club for a TV special broadcast by MTV Live, which was not publicly ticketed. The show opened with a new extended loop intro for "With You" recently debuted at London's Docklands Arena, and included all of Hybrid Theory except "Cure for the Itch," in addition to the B-side "High Voltage" in its live rendition with extra lead guitar.


During the Meteora cycle, the band returned to Milan in February 2003 to kick off the Meteora LP Underground Tour ahead of the album's release. They debuted three-quarters of the album at the Alcatraz club that night, opening with "Session" into "Don't Stay." In total, eight songs from Meteora were debuted, with the remainder of the set introducing "Somewhere I Belong," "Lying From You," "Faint," "From the Inside," and the elusive "Hit the Floor" and "Easier to Run"—both of which would only last through Projekt Revolution in the spring and have never been played since.


The band later hit other Italian cities for the next few tours, hitting Venice in 2008 (after their ill-fated canceled Heineken Jammin' appearance there the year prior) and Imola in 2011. With The Hunting Party in 2014, Linkin Park brought Milan yet another pre-release performance. Seven days before the album's global release on June 17, they performed at Alfa Romeo City Sound. The band opened with their lead single "Guilty All the Same" and also played "Wastelands" and "Until It's Gone" from the album, the latter of which received an official live video using fan-shot footage from the Milan crowd.


In 2015, the band finally performed in Italy's capital of Rome for the first time, before returning to northern Italy in 2017 for their debut at the newly rebooted I-Days, for I-Days 2017 held in Monza. During their set, Linkin Park performed a number of songs from One More Light, including "Talking to Myself," "Good Goodbye," and "One More Light," among others. Footage from the I-Days 2017 performance of "One More Light" went on to be featured in the official tribute music video released after Chester's passing, with intimate footage of Chester performing in the Monza crowd featured prominently. I-Days 2017 undoubtedly has a different kind of memory for many fans who were there for that performance.


Mike Shinoda also performed a date in Milan for the Milano Rocks festival in 2018, performing several songs that Linkin Park will undoubtedly be playing tomorrow as well. Most notably, he performed a mashup of "Where'd You Go" and "Waiting for the End" that was commonplace on the Post Traumatic tour, foreshadowing the Fort Minor song's inclusion in Linkin Park's set just before "Waiting for the End."


Europe's setlist has remained fairly consistent so far, with some of the only big changes being the removal and subsequent re-addition of "Waiting for the End" to the festival setlists, as well as the dropping of "New Divide" for festivals. Linkin Park's set at Hellfest also saw the first time "Let You Fade" has been dropped since it debuted at Welcome to Rockville in May, replaced by "A Place for My Head"—a song whose absence was notably questioned for the band's controversial 2017 Hellfest appearance.


As the band looks to be playing a full-length setlist, it's likely it will follow the format of their recent solo headlining dates. The most recent of these was their date at Berlin's Olympiastadion, the band's biggest solo show of their career so far—at least until their upcoming Wembley Stadium appearance this Saturday! In Berlin, "Cut the Bridge," "Given Up," and "Good Things Go" filled in the rotating slots for the set, with the encore rotation slot seen prior to Europe remaining static with "Let You Fade" holding its position. Fans can reasonably expect the band to continue with this format for I-Days, though it remains to be seen whether the encore spot for "Let You Fade" will return to a rotation, or if the "A Place for My Head" substitution yesterday was an adjustment tailored to Hellfest.


As Linkin Park reaches the halfway point of their European run, "Unshatter" has yet to make a debut, but tracks off From Zero continue to be a strong part of their setlist. This especially the case with "Heavy Is the Crown," used as an encore staple while the band continues to license it for usage by large names in sports and esports. Mike will likely also continue his tradition of rotating rap verses during the "When They Come for Me" and "Remember the Name" mashup. "Hands Held High" and "High Voltage" seem like logical future picks, especially given their live history across his solo, Fort Minor, and Linkin Park performances!

Any way you slice it, Linkin Park's performance for I-Days seems likely to be a great one. We wish safety and fun for all fans attending!



With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you!

Will you be attending the I-Days Milano show or watching online? Be sure to visit our official LPA Meetup Thread if so, and join the discussion on our forums!

Upcoming Shows:
June 26, 2025: Arnhem, Netherlands
June 28, 2025: London, UK
July 01, 2025: Düsseldorf, Germany
July 03, 2025: Werchter, Belgium | Rock Werchter Festival
July 05, 2025: Gdynia, Poland | Open'er Festival
July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 11, 2025: Paris, France

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SETLIST
ACT 1 (Inception Intro A)
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Crawling
03: Cut the Bridge
04: Lying From You
05: The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro A)
06: The Catalyst - shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
07: BURN IT DOWN
08: Up From the Bottom
09: Where'd You Go - shortened; intro, first verse, and chorus (Fort Minor)
10: Waiting for the End - 2024 Intro
11: Joe Solo - with Colin
12: Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', 'UNTIL IT BREAKS' verse 3, & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin
13: Two Faced
14: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro

ACT 3 (Collapse Transition)
15: Lost - hybrid version
16: Stained
17: What I've Done

ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition)
18: Overflow
19: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro
20: In The End
21: Faint - extended outro

ACT 5: Encore (Resolution Intro A)
22: Papercut - extended intro
23: A Place for My Head
24: Heavy Is the Crown
25: Bleed It Out - extended bridge with "There They Go" verse 1; extended outro

With Linkin Park coming back to France in a few weeks and some uncertainty about this show even happening, we'll keep the post for today on the shorter side.

Linkin Park previously played at Hellfest in 2017, and that show is remembered as not a good one for the Linkin Park community. The crowd was not happy with the bands setlist consisting of many songs not fitting with the theme of the festival, resulting in various disrespectful interactions from the crowd. This was the most obvious when someone almost hit Chester with a water jug during 'Heavy'. Unlike these days when crowd members throw something on stage for fun, and Mike or Emily have fun with it, this was done with much more malice.


With that properly mentioned, the set itself was pretty good. It was a festival set so it was cut down a bit, even more than usual, removing 'Waiting for the End' (uh-oh) and 'One More Light' for time reasons. 'From the Inside' made its debut on the One More Light cycle, filling the rotation spot that had previously been occupied by 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Points of Authority', and 'A Place for My Head'. So while A Place for My Head wasn't performed in full for the Hellfest crowd, Mike did rap the first verse of the song over the ending for the 'CASTLE OF GLASS Experience Version'. And looking at the video from the show, a damn good performance of 'Good Goodbye' (come at me!). So, despite a shitty crowd being shitty, the band put in a good performance.


Well... unfortunately the band had to cancel the previous show that they were set to play in Bern, Switzerland, so I don't really have a previous show to recap here.

As it stands right now, we're actually not entirely sure if the band will play this show. After the show in Bern, Switzerland unfortunately had to be cancelled due to a "medical issue" there has been no word if the tour will go on with just that one unfortunate cancellation, or if more shows will have to be cancelled. We'll just have to wait and see I guess. While many other bands have livestreams scheduled for their sets at Hellfest, there isn't one scheduled currently for Linkin Parks set. But, the band didn't have their set livestreamed in 2017 either, so it could just be a rights issue.


After this show the band is scheduled to head over to Milan, Italy for a performance at the I-DAYS festival, where they'll play with Spiritbox, Jimmy Eat World, and JPEGMafia.

With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you!

Will you be attending the show? Are you attending any shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums.

Upcoming Shows:
June 24, 2025: Milan, Italy - I-DAYS Festival
June 26, 2025: Arnhem, Netherlands
June 28, 2025: London, UK
July 01, 2025: Düsseldorf, Germany
July 03, 2025: Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
July 05, 2025: Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 11, 2025: Paris, France

SETLIST:
thank you @Christøffer

ACT 1 (Inception Intro A)
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Lying From You
03: From the Inside
04: The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro A)
05: The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
06: BURN IT DOWN
07: Two Faced
08: Waiting for the End - 2024 Intro
09: Up From the Bottom
10: One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro

ACT 3 (Collapse Transition)
11: Lost - Hybrid Version
12: Overflow
13: What I've Done
14: Numb - "Numb/Encore" Intro
15: In the End
16: Faint - Extended Outro

ACT 4: Encore (Resolution Intro A)
17: Papercut - Extended Intro
18: A Place for My Head
19: Heavy Is the Crown
20: Bleed It Out - Extended Bridge with "Reading My Eyes" v1; Extended Outro

Tonight, Linkin Park moves in on Bern, Switzerland, with a show at at the Bernexpo Areal Openair, a 30,000-capacity outdoor venue which they have sold out. This is the band's only stop in this country on their European tour leg, with grandson playing support and likely also making an appearance during Linkin Park's set for "One Step Closer".

Linkin Park has never performed in Bern before, but they have played in Switzerland sporadically throughout their touring history. The band's first show in the country was at the Hallenstadion arena in Zürich on June 11, 2007, part of a European tour leg they embarked on right after the release of their third studio album Minutes to Midnight. By this point, they had just established "Bleed It Out" as a closing song with a relatively-new drawn-out bridge section and a brand-new extended ending - both things that they're still iterating on to this day.

In January of 2008, the band returned to play in Basel as part of another Minutes to Midnight European tour leg to kick off that year. Among the new additions to the set at this point in time were the Minutes to Midnight deep cut "Valentine's Day", which had its live debut a couple of shows prior, and an extended intro for "Crawling" which used elements of the Reanimation rework, "KRWLNG".


In 2009, Linkin Park played far fewer shows relative to 2007 and 2008. Nearly all their live dates that year were part of a single tour leg that began in July 2009. This tour leg saw the band touch down in a few different regions around the world over the course of two months, focusing mainly on cities in Europe and Asia, to promote their single "New Divide", which had been released exactly a month prior to the tour. Early on in this 2009 tour leg, at the end of July, was a show in Zürich where Linkin Park once again performed at the Hallenstadion. One of the newer elements here was the extended ending for "Points of Authority", which incorporated parts of "A Place for My Head".


Linkin Park returned to Zürich and took the stage at the Hallenstadion arena again in late 2010, a couple of months after the release of their fourth studio album A Thousand Suns. This show included most of the A Thousand Suns set regulars from that period, such as a "Wretches and Kings" opening and various interludes segments drawn from the album scattered throughout the show.


In 2011, a year where Linkin Park was focused entirely on touring in support of A Thousand Suns, the band went on a European tour throughout June, and played at a festival called OpenAir St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland. This show is particularly notable for the absence of "One Step Closer", a song which, to say the least, has been a staple of Linkin Park live shows since its release in 2000. This show marked the second time ever where the band omitted the song during a show on tour, with the prior show in France being the first. Beyond that, the rotated setlists varied quite a bit throughout this tour cycle - this St. Gallen festival set featured "Faint" very early on in the set, while other setlists had the band closing the main set or encore with that song, and also included "From the Inside".


After this, Linkin Park returned to Switzerland in June, 2014 as part of a European summer tour ahead of the release of their sixth studio album The Hunting Party. This tour leg consisted mostly of festival sets, and among those was the 2014 edition of Interlaken's Greenfield Festival. During this cycle, the band's show was divided up into three segments, or acts (with the very-generous encore segment effectively a fourth act) which largely featured shortened or simply brief arrangements of various back-catalogue like "Blackout", "Robot Boy" and "Runaway", change-ups like a new live version of "CASTLE OF GLASS", and an outright new addition in the band's Steve Aoki collaboration "A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES", and more - alongside, of course, Hunting Party pre-release singles such as "Guilty All the Same" and "Wastelands".


Linkin Park came back to Switzerland much deeper in the Hunting Party touring cycle - in November of 2014, to start off a European tour leg that would close out their year, the band once again played at the Hallenstadion in Zürich. Having developed the Hunting Party live shows over the course of the whole year, their setlist by this point now included songs like "Rebellion" and "Final Masquerade".


The most recent show at the legendary Olympiastadion in Berlin was Linkin Park's biggest headline show to date. The set included highlights such as Mike Shinoda performing a rap verse from his Post Traumatic cut "Lift Off" during his solo segment as well as one from "A Place for My Head" during the extended bridge in "Bleed It Out", and grandson popping out to sing on "One Step Closer". The band also played "Given Up", "Cut the Bridge" and "Good Things Go", all songs which hadn't yet appeared in the setlists during this European run (though Shinoda did rap the first verse from "Cut the Bridge" at the Hanover show as part of "Bleed It Out").

Tonight's Switzerland show is Linkin Park's fifth stop on this particular tour, and the supportive, energetic crowds at both the headline and festival shows during this run have made this Europe trip one which the band likely won't forget any time soon. After this, the band will head to France and take the stage at the metal festival Hellfest in Clisson on June 22, followed by a performance at the I-Days Festival in Milan, Italy on June 24.

In the meantime, come and discuss this Bern, Switzerland show on our message board!

Linkin Park continues with their conquest of Europe, playing their second show in Germany for this leg of the tour, this time at the iconic Olympiastadion.

Berlin is one of the cities that the band has played the most, currently sitting at 10th place with 12 performances. If you're wondering, the top 3 are in order: Los Angeles, London, New York. But we're not gonna talk about all Berlin performances today, instead we're just gonna do a quick rapid fire of some notable performances.

• 2001: March 13, Columbiahalle; First show in Berlin for the band, opening for Deftones, remember the venue name.
• 2007: April 28, Kesselhaus; No More Sorrow, Given Up and What I've Done were all performed live for the first time, and it was also the first time that anyone had heard Given Up and No More Sorrow in any form as those songs had not been released yet.
• 2012: June 05, Admiralspalast, Telekom Street Gigs; the "music video" for 'POWERLESS' was filmed before the show during soundcheck, and the show was filmed and released on the LIVING THINGS+ DVD.
• 2015: September 03 at Stadion an der Alten Försterei; Joe was not present at this show as he had to leave earlier in the tour, his tech Warren filled in for him.

Thanks to @Christøffer for putting together this list.


But let's focus a bit more on the last time that Linkin Park and Mike Shinoda played in the city.

2017 was the last time Linkin Park rolled through Berlin, and that show sure offered some surprises. Did the show open with a normal song? No, it opened with a Mercedes AMG ad, but to be fair the whole show was part of the Mercedes 50th Anniversary Celebration, so I guess we can't complain too much. After the ad Chester came out and sang part of 'One More Light' acapella, the only time that the song was ever performed in that way and making a very weird start for the show. A few songs later the next surprise came along; 'Nobody Can Save Me' got its live debut and replaced 'Battle Symphony' in the setlist. For the start of the encore, Brad, Chester, and Rob performed 'Sharp Edges' acoustically, with Brad and Chester playing at the end of the catwalk for the entire song. The performance of the song was released to promote the 'One More Light Live' album that came out in December of 2017, but in May of 2022 we also got a short video as part of the 'Notes From The Band' series of posts that the band did at the time, of Chester and Brad rehearsing the song.



Mike Shinoda returned to Berlin with the first real show of the Post Traumatic tour in 2019. This was one of 7 shows on that tour that were played in Germany, all of them taking place in a different city. The venue that this show was performed at was the 'Columbiahalle', the same place that Linkin Park played at in 2001. See? I told you to remember the venue name before... At the show Mike was joined on the stage by some guests; a fan named Philip played piano on 'In the End', singer Jennifer Weist of the band 'Jennifer Rostock' joined for 'A Place for My Head', as did Mike's tech Mark, playing guitar on the song.


Berlin was also the place for one of the 'Already Over sessions'. This was a series of performances where Mike gathered a group of local musicians from every location, and got them to perform a couple of songs with him in a studio. For this performance Mike and his newly assembled band performed 'Already Over' and 'In My Head'.


Okay, let's jump to 2025 and the band's latest performance; Hanover, Germany. This was just the band's second performance ever in the city and it was quite the upgrade from the last time they were in town. The band went from a 14,000-capacity arena in 2008 to a stadium that can hold 49,000 people, an upgrade we've seen a lot of on the 'From Zero' tours. This was the first full headline show for the band since their May 8 performance in Greenville, North Carolina and it saw the welcome return of some songs that were cut out of the recent festival performances; 'Where'd You Go' before 'Waiting for the End', and the solo slots for Mike and Joe all came back. Along with that we had 'Lying From You', 'Casualty' and 'Over Each Other' all in the rotation slots. In terms of the "Mike's random verses" for his solo slot, he performed verse one of 'I.O.U' from his Post Traumatic album and on the 'Bleed It Out' bridge he did the first verse of 'Cut the Bridge'. While this is not the first time that 'Cut the Bridge' has been featured over 'Bleed It Out', all other times it's been the bridge of that song and not any of the verses.


So like I said in the beginning of this post, this show marks Linkin Park's debut at Berlin's Olympiastadion. The stadium is the biggest one in Berlin, and third biggest in Germany, only being beaten out by the Allianz Arena (which Linkin Park just performed at, and will perform at again in 2026) and the Westfalenstadion - no shows scheduled there yet, but it's a venue in Germany... Linkin Park will play there one day. After this the band heads over to Switzerland to perform a show in Bern, a city that they've never played a show in before.

With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you!

Will you be attending the show? Are you attending any shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums.

Upcoming Shows:
June 20, 2025: Bern, Switzerland
June 22, 2025: Clisson, France - Hellfest Festival
June 24, 2025: Milan, Italy - I-DAYS Festival
June 26, 2025: Arnhem, Netherlands
June 28, 2025: London, UK
July 01, 2025: Düsseldorf, Germany
July 03, 2025: Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
July 05, 2025: Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 11, 2025: Paris, France

SETLIST:

ACT 1 (Inception Intro B)
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Cut the Bridge
03: Crawling
04: New Divide - short Moscow intro
05: The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro B)
06: The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
07: BURN IT DOWN
08: Up From the Bottom
09: Where'd You Go - shortened; intro, first verse, and chorus (Fort Minor)
10: Waiting for the End - 2024 Intro
11: CASTLE OF GLASS
12: Two Faced
13: Joe Solo - with Colin
14: Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', 'Lift Off' & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin
15: Given Up
16: One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro; with grandson

ACT 3 (Collapse Transition)
17: Lost - Hybrid Version
18: Good Things Go
19: What I've Done

ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition)
20: Overflow
21: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro
22: In The End
23: Faint - Extended outro

ACT 5: Encore (Resolution Intro B)
24: Papercut - Extended Intro
25: Let You Fade
26: Heavy Is the Crown
27: Bleed It Out - Extended Bridge with "A Place for My Head" verse 1; extended Outro

While in the Czech Republic for Rock for People 2025, Phoenix and Colin Brittain sat down with Randy Cøld of Czech radio station Evropa 2 for an interview. They covered a lot of ground in this interview, from the "Numb" and "From the Inside" music videos shot in Prague to the advantages of having Joe Hahn as an internal director for their music videos. They even briefly cover Phoenix's time touring with his high school friends in Tasty Snax, before he returned to the band in late 2000! See below for the full interview.

Come join the discussion on our forums as we continue to follow Linkin Park's European summer run of the From Zero world tour!

Linkin Park has been busy playing a number of European festivals lately, most recently the 2025 edition of the Czech Republic's Rock for People. Tonight, though, Hanover, Germany will witness the first headline show of this From Zero European tour leg. The band will be performing to a full crowd at the 49,000-capacity Heinz-Von-Heiden Arena, with grandson and England's metalcore pioneers Architects in the support slots.

The band's history in Germany is obviously extensive, and a lot has happened for them there even just recently as well, but Linkin Park has only played one show in Hanover prior to tonight. Their previous performance in the city happened in January 2008 at the TUI Arena, and it was their very first show of that year, kicking off a European tour leg in support of the 2007 album Minutes to Midnight. That show saw the live debut of "Valentine's Day", a deep cut from that album:

The setlists during that period saw the band delivering not one but two encores, and Hanover's crowd lucked out here: their final encore saw the very first performance of fan-favourite "A Place for My Head" since 2004. Unfortunately, audience recordings back then were not at the quality we've become accustomed to nowadays, but Linkin Park did release official recordings from this 2008 Hanover show and countless others, so you can at least hear the performance:


As mentioned, Linkin Park's most recent show was in the Czech Republic for the Rock the People festival, and the biggest surprise was the return of "From the Inside" early on in the set, a highlight of previous 2025 shows.


Later in the set, the band brought back "Waiting for the End", after leaving it out of the previous setlist at the Nova Rock festival in Austria, a noted rare absence for the song which left fans puzzled.


With a longer time slot available to them compared to a festival set, Linkin Park has plenty of room to surprise the sold-out crowd in Hanover tonight. There are no songs left on From Zero to actually debut live, but we nonetheless don't know which songs from the album will make an appearance. There are also songs regularly seen during past From Zero tour legs like "Keys to the Kingdom", "Friendly Fire" or "My December" which they might rotate back in. There's even the slight chance the band might dig into their extensive back-catalogue and blindside the fans with something that hasn't yet been performed during this tour cycle ...

After this Hanover show, Linkin Park heads to Berlin to perform their show at the Olympiastadion - one of the largest stadiums in all of Germany - and, then, to Bern, Switzerland for a show there at the Bernexpo. Following that, the band will be making their return to France's metal festival Hellfest.

Whatever happens, it's been over a month since Linkin Park performed a headline arena show and we're all excited to see what they'll bring to the table. Come and discuss it on our message board!

Yet another week, yet another new episode of LPTV FROM ZERO. This week we're looking at the creation of the song 'Stained'! All the studio footage we see in this episode takes place in Mike's home studio; 'The Stockroom'. We start the episode back in May 2023 with Mike recording acoustic guitar before jumping in the vocal booth to record some early vocals before switching with Emily so she can record some vocals. We then pick the episode back up in July of the same year with Emily back in the vocal booth, Mike in his producer's chair, and Phoenix seemingly practicing his golf swing. With the next time jump we go to July 2024, and the day we've seen in a few other episodes. Brad, Emily, and Mike are recording vocals for a few songs and end up finishing 'Stained'. Watch the episode below.

2003 saw the first ever Linkin Park performance in the Czech Republic, with initial date of June 16th having to be rescheduled along with the bands entire June scheduled with European shows, due to Chester suffering from medical issues. Instead some of those June shows were rescheduled and played later in the year, with the show in Prague taking place on September 3rd. While the band was in Prague they took some time to film the music video for 'From the Inside'.


The band returned in 2007 for another show in Prague, bringing out some of the songs from the recently released Minutes to Midnight. 2008 got a performance in Brno for the first and so far only time, and the city was lucky enough to get a very rare performance of 'Reading My Eyes'. It took another nine years before the band headed back to the Czech Republic and Prague, with a performance at that years Aerodrome festival. At the show Mike dedicated the song 'One More Light' to his uncle Kenji who had recently passed away.


Mike also played a show in the country in 2019, another performance in Prague. Before he played a piano version of Numb, he talked about how the band had filmed the music videos for both it and From the Inside in the country.


So the most recent show the band played was their return to Austria at the Nova Rock festival. In terms of the setlist, the band mostly stuck with the typical festival set that we saw them use at Sonic Temple and Rockville. For the second show in a row, 'Waiting for the End' was cut, and oh boy, has the internet shown that they are not okay with this. 'Let You Fade' was kept in the set and played only for the second time, being played third to last in the setlist. We don't know for sure if there will be rotating songs on this setlist or what songs would be rotated; we'll see what happens as the tour progresses.


Mini review of the show at Nova Rock from forum user @ZERØ:

Linkin Park were obviously the biggest draw of the festival, and the atmosphere before their set was great. Before they had to start there was a 10 minutes countdown on the screens. When the clocked went to zero, the laser blasted starting with Inception intro A. People were cheering as the band started to get up on the stage. The setlist was the same as before, but they skipped a few songs due to time constraints. The biggest response from the audience were Crawling, The Emptiness Machine, Numb and In The End. The band looked like they were having fun the whole time, but Emily seemed a bit nervous and not very confident. She didn't even talk between the songs, as Mike took the role of the frontman. Overall the show was fun and full of emotions.

For the band's return to the Czech Republic, they are heading to a new city to play a new festival. Rock for People is a festival that started in 1995, so this makes it the 30th anniversary! Hey, congratulations! Despite the festival being around for Linkin Park's entire career, this is the first time the band is playing it, headlining the five-day festival along with Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Sex Pistols, and Guns N' Roses. For this show, the band has a 100-minute spot; that's all of 10 extra minutes from the usual festival headline slot like the previous show, so this provides an opportunity to add an extra song or two to the set. Mike took to Twitter and asked what song they shouldn't play at the show, with all of the options being regular rotation slot songs.


With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you!

Will you be attending Rock for People and catching Linkin Park there? Are you attending any shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums.

Upcoming Shows:
June 16, 2025: Hannover, Germany
June 18, 2025: Berlin, Germany
June 20, 2025: Bern, Switzerland
June 22, 2025: Clisson, France - Hellfest Festival
June 24, 2025: Milan, Italy - I-DAYS Festival
June 26, 2025: Arnhem, Netherlands
June 28, 2025: London, UK
July 01, 2025: Düsseldorf, Germany
July 03, 2025: Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
July 05, 2025: Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 11, 2025: Paris, France

SETLIST:

ACT 1 (Inception Intro A)

01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Lying From You
03: From the Inside
04: The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro A)

05: The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
06: BURN IT DOWN
07: Two Faced
08: Waiting for the End - 2024 Intro
09: Up From the Bottom
10: One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro

ACT 3 (Collapse Transition)

11: Lost - Hybrid Version
12: Overflow
13: What I've Done
14: Numb - Numb/Encore Intro
15: In The End
16: Faint - Extended Outro

ACT 4: Encore(Resolution Intro A)

17: Papercut - Extended Intro
18: Let You Fade
19: Heavy Is the Crown
20: Bleed It Out - Extended Bridge with 'There They Go' v1; Extended Outro

Linkin Park has announced that there will be "Pop-Up Experiences" coming to Germany later this month. Linkin Park buses will be posted up in various German cities from mid-June through to the beginning of July. These pop-up spots will be offering collectors' items and limited-edition merchandise (including an exclusive vinyl variant of some kind), along with other activities for fans, with full details to be given within the next day or so via linkinpark-bus.de.

In the meantime, the band has shared the dates and cities where these pop-up buses will be appearing:

• June 14 – Hamburg
• June 15 – Hanover
• June 16 – Hanover
• June 17 – Berlin
• June 18 – Berlin
• June 19 – Leipzig
• June 21 – Dresden
• June 23 – Frankfurt
• June 25 – Mannheim
• June 27 – Ruhr Area
• June 28 – Ruhr Area
• June 30 – Düsseldorf
• July 1 – Düsseldorf

Linkin Park will be playing a few shows in Germany throughout June and July as part of a European run, beginning with Hanover on June 16 at the Heinz-Von-Heiden Arena. This will be followed by shows in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, scattered throughout the next few weeks. The band also recently announced plans to return to Germany in mid-2026, and confirmed that they will be a headline act at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park.

Source: Linkin Park on Twitter

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