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Another week, another great insight into the making of 'From Zero'! This week we're taking a look at the making of 'Overflow'! What we see through the episode is that the song did not come together quickly and painlessly, as the last piece of footage we see in this episode didn't happen until July 2024, 20 months after it started. Check out the episode below.

Starting in all the way back in December 2002. We see Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Colin Brittan, and Jake Torrey in Mikes home studio ('The Stockroom') coming up with the initial idea for the main loop of the song. Next we see Mike and Colin starting with the initial drum idea, before Mike lays down some early vocals. In January 2024 we see the band once again working on the drums, this time in the Eastwest Studios, going for a totally different feel. We then see the band members discuss the themes of the song, trying to reach the "fun but dark" feeling. We then jump to July 2024, where Mike, Brad, and Emily are recording some Emily vocals.

What do you think of the new episode? Are you looking forward to seeing the episode for 'Two Faced' next week? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park YouTube

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn have appeared as guests on the latest episode of Drink Champs, the podcast series that brings in celebrity guests to talks hip-hop over drinks. Drink Champs is hosted by Miami's DJ EFN and Queens' N.O.R.E., both hip-hop veterans, who launched the series back in 2016. It has since grown to become one of the biggest music-focused podcasts in the game, with its weekly episodes amassing millions of listeners. This episode in question is almost two hours long, so plenty of ground is covered.

Shinoda and Hahn, representing Linkin Park, are novel choices as far as Drink Champs guests, as the show usually invites unambiguously hip-hop names. However, hip-hop elements are a core aspect of Linkin Park's musical identity and the band has connected with plenty of esteemed hip-hop acts throughout their storied career. Among other things, Hahn shares an anecdote about having a meal at Lupe Fiasco's mother's house, while Shinoda reveals that Timbaland provided elements for Linkin Park's 2002 remix effort Reanimation which were not used. Other highlights of the interview are, naturally, Shinoda and Hahn talking about Linkin Park's collaboration with Jay-Z, which resulted in the iconic Collision Course release in 2004, and telling the story of their collaboration with Rakim 10 years later for the 2014 single "Guilty All the Same".

Beyond that, the Linkin Park musicians also have plenty to say throughout the loosely-structured chat, telling more stories from the band's history, offering perspectives on hip-hop and other music genres, and putting out their controversial hip-hop takes.

You can check out the full Drink Champs episode on YouTube, or listen to it in podcast form on platforms such as Spotify or Apple Music.

Source: Drink Champs on YouTube

Alternative Press has a new interview with members of Linkin Park for the cover story in their May 2025 issue. The magazine's editor-in-chief Anna Zanes sat down with Emily Armstrong, Mike Shinoda, and Phoenix to reflect on the From Zero album and campaign, as well as talk about the new songs included in the deluxe edition, and how the band has developed as a live act during this tour cycle. The story, titled "Linkin Park: Growing together", is now available to read on Alternative Press' website, and the interview has also been released on YouTube.

In the interview, Shinoda and Phoenix explain that one of the new songs added as bonus tracks on the From Zero deluxe edition, "Let You Fade", began during the album-making process but was finished afterwards while the band was on tour:

Let’s talk about the new songs that are on the deluxe album. Did you write those on tour?

SHINODA: Well, “Up From the Bottom” is entirely new, written in between show dates. “Unshatter” was written entirely during our FROM ZERO sessions, and “Let You Fade” was both… The melodies and chords and words were written during the FROM ZERO sessions, and then we completely changed the shape of it and rewrote all the music in December, between shows.

FARRELL: I think certain songs just take longer than others to get to a place where you feel like you want to share it. Early on, “Let You Fade” was a song for me where I knew there was something there. I remember the first time I played the first version of it. I knew there was something special that I was connecting with, but it took a while, a couple different versions of it, to get it to a spot where you're like, “We're now ready to share it with the world.” Other songs came together a lot quicker.

Shinoda also explains that Linkin Park's creative process has always morphed over time as the band learns new things, and especially now with the addition of new members contributing their own insights. Always with a perfect metaphor at the ready, Shinoda neatly describes all these approaches and perspectives as "tools in the toolbox".

With this iteration of Linkin Park, what does your collaborative process look like? What form does it take in the studio, live, generally?

SHINODA: It's hard to describe. It changes a lot. There isn't one way of doing things — and I think that's because we've done so many songs in so many different ways, and a lot of our fans make fun of me because I always talk about the “tools in the toolbox.” We've got a lot of ways to do the thing, and so what keeps it interesting for me is continuing to switch it up, use different ones, and also having new blood in the band is a lot of fun, because Colin [Brittain] and Emily do things their own way. They do things slightly differently — or different enough from what I've ever experienced with our band that it's fun to see what they pull out and bring to the table.

Throughout the rest of the interview, the musicians touch on a range of things including the communal experience of performing live, the process of choosing opening acts for the tour dates, and that puzzling ad-lib in the "Casualty" intro:

SHINODA: What I love — and I said this before specifically — there are certain moments where [Emily] can turn off her mental filter and just words come out, and she does that very easily and very well. There's a version of that, that when people are able to do that, cool, weird random stuff pops out, and there are some real great little lyrical moments and vocal moments on the record. On “Casualty,” there’s this part — “Let’s get out alive!”

ARMSTRONG: Yeah, weird thing.

SHINODA: She just said those words, during the song, and I was like, “What is that?” I would never have written that. Those words had nothing to do with the song, really. And we kept that! There were different moments like that, where it's like, “Oh, that's a cool, weird thing to say.” We needed a little more weird in the band.

You can check out the rest of the new Alternative Press interview here.

Source: Alternative Press on Twitter

While we've discussed in previous posts on this leg of the tour how Linkin Park hasn't performed in the state all that often during their career, this is not the case for Florida! The Sunshine State has hosted a total of 25 Linkin Park shows during the band's career, and tomorrow, it's time for #26! They have never played a show in Daytona Beach, though. The 'LIVING THINGS' touring cycle is the only one where Florida didn't get a show, the band skipped playing a show there in both 2012 and 2013, instead returning for three shows on the cycle for 'The Hunting Party', two in 2014 and one in 2015. And now, a decade later, they're finally back for their only Florida performance of the year!

Enjoy a show from 2004, and a LPUTV from their performance in Tampa 2007, when a storm delayed the bands performance.


Mike Shinoda stopped by Florida in 2018 for two shows in Orlando, and the second of the two shows featured a real special performance of 'Sharp Edges'. The song being played was a rarity already, having previously only been played at a rehearsal performance and one other show earlier in the tour. This was the last performance of the song, and Mike didn't even play piano on it, instead Matt was the only one on stage for the song, both singing and playing acoustic guitar.

Let's talk about that performance at Sonic Temple!
As we assumed they would, the band performed a shortened setlist, but the audience at the festival certainly did not seem to mind. We have seen plenty of reviews from the show saying that people who were skeptical of the band were won over, and that they had the best set at the festival. I'm glad to see people can admit when they're wrong. There were no real surprises at the show; 'Unshatter' remains undebuted, and the band did not pull anything from the archive that they haven't played yet.


So this is the last show of this leg for the From Zero 2025 World Tour; what can we expect from it? Will they rotate the set and make any song changes? Will they cut or add any songs? 'Unshatter' and 'Let You Fade' remain to be played live, but that feels like something we'll have to wait for the Europe shows for.

Except for their performance at the Champions League final on May 31, the band heads home after this show for some well-deserved rest, before jumping headfirst into a grueling touring schedule in both Europe and North America this summer and fall. Starting in mid-June and ending in September, the band has 40 shows scheduled.

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 tune in with you!

If you're going to this show, make sure to take care of yourself and make sure you stay hydrated, it's gonna be a warm one!

Are you attending Welcome to Rockville 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.

SETLIST FROM ROCKVILLE:

ACT 1 (Inception Intro A)

01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Lying From You
03: Crawling
04: Two Faced
05: New Divide - Short Moscow Intro
06: The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro A)

07: The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown)
08: BURN IT DOWN
09: Up From the Bottom
10: A Place for My Head
11: One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro

ACT 3 (Collapse Transition)

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

ACT 4: Encore (Resolution Intro B)

18: Papercut - Extended Intro
19: Let You Fade - Live Debut
20: Heavy Is the Crown
21: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with 'There They Go' v1; Extended outro

The long-awaited deluxe edition of Linkin Park's 2024 effort From Zero is finally out worldwide! This version of the album gives fans three new Linkin Park songs to enjoy - "Up From the Bottom", "Unshatter", and "Let You Fade".

Fans can purchase in a variety of formats or stream on platforms like Spotify or Apple Music. While the digital editions simply have the three bonus tracks tacked onto the end, the physical editions also offer live recordings of five From Zero songs from various 2024 shows, along with the new studio tracks together on a bonus disc. These include "Casualty" from Bogota on November 11, and "Two Faced" from the November 15 album release show in São Paulo, Brazil. This is in addition to a 16- or 24-page full-colour booket (depending on which physical edition you buy) featuring brand-new photos from the band's From Zero tour cycle and printed lyrics for the new songs.

CD 2
1. Up From the Bottom
2. Unshatter
3. Let You Fade
4. The Emptiness Machine (Live)
5. Heavy is the Crown (Live)
6. Over Each Other (Live)
7. Casualty (Live)
8. Two Faced (Live)

The band first announced this deluxe release at the end of March, heralding it with the premiere of "Up From the Bottom", which serves as one of three bonus tracks across all formats. The single, currently at the apex of Billboard's U.S. Rock & Alternative Airplay chart for the fourth straight week, also served to hype fans up for Linkin Park's North American tour leg which began in late April. The band gave "Up From the Bottom" its live debut on the opening night of the tour in Austin, TX, and it has remained a staple in the shows ever since.

Right before the tour kicked off, Linkin Park surprised fans by releasing another new song due to appear in the deluxe edition, "Unshatter", another high-energy punch to the face with a powerful performance by Emily Armstrong on the lead vocals. That left just one remaining song, "Let You Fade", that would drop with the deluxe album proper. Linkin Park has also uploaded an official visualiser, naturally a minimalistic neon affair in the vein of the "Unshatter" visual before it:


Fans have found "Let You Fade" to be strikingly different to other From Zero songs. Linkin Park takes an expansive nu-metal-meets-shoegaze route which might remind hardcore fans of the Meteora demo "Massive", or perhaps of acts like 311 and P.O.D. The instrumentation features wall-of-noise guitars, ambient synths and downcast piano chords, serving as the backdrop for some serious lyrics that have given listeners a lot to discuss. Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong both deliver together on the vocals once again, with Shinoda charging in aggressively for the verses (naturally fitting in some rapping here and there), and Armstrong contrasting with a soaring, heartfelt turn in the choruses.

"Let You Fade" lyrics:

I'm supposed to be running / I'm just catching my breath
Saying "congratulations" / terrified of what's next
Everything is exploding / twenty hours, no sleep
Three o'clock in the morning / lying there in the street

Breaking our backs for a pile of sand
Just to have it all falling out of our hands
Maybe it all gets lost in the end, but

I'll remember you
No matter where our ways may take us to
And, even when the memories slip away
Time will test you / I won't let you fade

This is supposed to feel different / why do I feel the same?
Trying to get with the rhythm / I'm all over the place
And the faces in my head say that what was next might just be the last
We don't want to admit that we are never going back
Revisiting the distance from the present to the past
And don't know how we went from where we were to where we're at

Breaking our backs for a pile of sand
Just to have it all falling out of our hands
Maybe it all gets lost in the end, but

I'll remember you
No matter where our ways may take us to
And, even when the memories slip away
Breaking our backs for a pile of sand
Just to have it all falling out of our hands
Maybe it all gets lost in the end
(I know I'm the one that you wanna forget, but)

I'll remember you
No matter where our ways may take us to
And, even when the memories slip away
Time will test you / time will test you
Time will test you / I won't let you (fade)

I won't let you fade
I won't let you fade

what was next might just be the last
We don't want to admit that we are never going back
(I won't let you fade)
Revisiting the distance from the present to the past
And don't know how we went from where we were to where we're at
(I won't let you)

How are you liking "Let You Fade" and the From Zero deluxe edition as a whole? Let us know on our message board!

Linkin Park is on the cover of the June 2025 issue of Pollstar Magazine, a trade publication that focuses on live music. The profile piece on the band is written by music journalist Katherine Turman, and cleverly titled "The New Mettle: Linkin Park’s Incredible Return To Global Stadiums & Arenas". Quite fittingly, it mostly focuses on Linkin Park's touring efforts: the September 5, 2024 launch event which introduced the new band line-up, as well as the subsequent From Zero touring which has taken Linkin Park all over the world to perform live for fans.

The story features quotes from some of the band members, as well as people Linkin Park has worked closely with in planning the world tour, giving insight on some of thought processes influencing the decisions. For example, key figures from Live Nation's concert division explain how the launch show helped the band to gauge demand for more shows:

From the start, “the band and their team approached the return thoughtfully,” says Rick Franks, SVP of Global Touring, Live Nation Concerts. Fans watching the livestream from around the world gave a “real-time insight into the response of the announcement. Based on the data, it was clear there was incredible demand globally, helping us build a 2025 touring plan that felt right-sized for the moment. Sellouts internationally in Mexico, Europe, and several key markets in the U.S. and Canada are proof points of the band’s indelible mark.”

Band member Mike Shinoda also provides perspective on things like Linkin Park turning to WME as their booking agency (the cause of much fan speculation at the time):

“We went over to WME [John Marx, Josh Javor, Rob Markus, Ron Opaleski, Brian Cohen, Jake Wilk and Dvora Englefield] and one of the reasons we did that is because touring is so much more fragmented now,” Shinoda says. “There’s so much information, so everything is so specific to regions and so specific to this venue in this particular area, and this fanbase, and whatever, that you need people who are experts in the little microcosms of those areas.”

The rest of the feature touches briefly on things like the band having to learning new live arrangements of old songs, ticket pricing and distribution strategies, and even the recent change in venue for the Los Angeles show scheduled for September.

If you're interested in this aspect of Linkin Park, the cover story in Pollstar is definitely worth checking out - you can read it here, and find out more about the June 2025 issue on this page. If you're a paying subscriber, you can apparently even look at the data Pollstar has on Linkin Park's touring history (but that profile picture chosen for the band is available for everyone to see).

Source: Pollstar News

Linkin Park has just wrapped up another leg of arena shows and is now heading into their big festival run for the summer! Until their US arena show in Brooklyn on July 29th, the band will be playing multiple festivals in Europe, while playing sets of arena shows in between.

However, before Linkin Park heads over the Atlantic, they have two festival dates in the United States. These will be their first US festivals since the band's return—though originally this was to be with the ill-fated Sick New World festival in Las Vegas in mid-April, which was cancelled. Instead, the band's US festival comeback will be with Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival, hosted in Columbus, Ohio, and put on by Danny Wimmer Presents, the same promoter/organizer responsible for US rock and metal festivals such as Louder than Life, Aftershock, and Welcome to Rockville. Welcome to Rockville will also be the band's next stop after Sonic Temple, before heading to Germany to perform in München, Bayern (Munich, Bavaria) for the 2025 UEFA Champions League final kickoff at the end of this month.


The band is headlining day three of the Sonic Temple festival. They will follow previous night headliners Korn and Metallica, the latter of whom will also be playing a second headlining set for the final night of the festival, advertised as "no repeats" from their first set as with the current M72 World Tour. Also of note is that Incubus, slotted to play just before Linkin Park on the main Temple Stage, very recently cancelled their performance for the festival due to an illness in the band. It remains to be seen if this shift will affect Linkin Park's time slot at all.

While this is Linkin Park's first appearance at Sonic Temple, they have performed at the festival's direct predecessor, Rock on the Range, previously. Danny Wimmer Presents replaced Rock on the Range with the new Sonic Temple festival starting in 2019, with a break during the COVID-19 pandemic before returning in 2023. The band performed for the 2015 edition of Rock on the Range while supporting The Hunting Party.

That 2015 performance, which introduced a new full-length setlist, fired off with a "Papercut" opener, followed by the return of "Rebellion." The band also debuted a shortened live version of their second collaboration with electronic producer Steve Aoki, "Darker than Blood." Notably absent was Brad Delson for personal reasons, with his spot filled in by his guitar technician Benjamin Chandler.


Outside of Danny Wimmer festivals, the band hit Columbus many times in their early history, starting in December 2000 as opener support for Papa Roach's Master Bay tour. The band performed in Columbus a total of seven times throughout the Hybrid Theory and Meteora cycles, and then once more in 2008 supporting Minutes to Midnight. At this February 2008 show, Chester performed the full "Given Up" scream for the last time in his tenure with Linkin Park.


This past US leg of the From Zero tour has been full of surprises and debuts so far. Over the course of the past six arena dates, the band has debuted the remaining three full-length songs off From Zero. "Cut the Bridge" debuted in full in Tulsa, after its bridge had been used in an extended "Bleed It Out" bridge section in late 2024; "Stained" was played for the first time in Baltimore; and "IGYEIH" was debuted in Raleigh, with Emily performing the bridge from within the crowd, right in the middle of a moshpit.


"Up from the Bottom," the lead promotional track from the upcoming deluxe edition of From Zero, also debuted at the beginning of this arena leg. It has been a setlist staple so far, performed at all six previous dates.


Other notable additions to the set for this past leg have included a shortened version of the Fort Minor single "Where'd You Go," as well as the addition of several different Mike verses into his solo medley, including Fort Minor's "Petrified," his verse from the Nick Catchdubs remix of "SKIN TO BONE" featured on Recharged, and "Step Up" from the band's 1999 EP. Long-time live staples have also been rotating in and out fluidly, such as "Lying from You," "Points of Authority," "Given Up," and "A Place for My Head."


Tracks off From Zero have also been in rotation, with "Over Each Other," "Stained," and "Good Things Go" all switching places; "Cut the Bridge" swapping with "Lying from You" and "Points of Authority;" and "Casualty" switching with "Given Up," "Keys to the Kingdom," and now "IGYEIH."


As this is only the band's second festival date since returning to touring—the first being Soundstorm in Saudi Arabia this past December—it's hard to predict what their setlist at Sonic Temple will look like, especially with all the changes they've made in just under a month. Linkin Park may do something similar to the shortened set for Soundstorm, dropping some of their more mellow or unconventional pieces such as "The Catalyst," "CASTLE OF GLASS," and the Mike and Joe solo segments. They certainly have rehearsed a lot of material they can choose from!

Remaining Shows for this Run:
May 17, 2025: Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome to Rockville

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 tune in with you!

Are you attending Sonic Temple and catching Linkin Park there? Are you attending any other shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums.

Linkin Park is back with their next weekly installment of studio footage for LPTV from Zero! This week looks at the punk and thrash-informed "Casualty," which the band debuted live in Arlington, Texas, just before the album release and after a lot of hype in press. All the footage in this episode comes from Mike Shinoda's home studio ("The Stockroom"), ranging from March to July of 2024.

This episode gives us a look at several different aspects of the recording process for "Casualty," including guitar riffs put together by Colin Brittain and Mike Shinoda, some of Joe Hahn's turntable cuts and backspins on the bridge, and Emily Armstrong's frenetic vocals on the choruses and bridge. We also hear Mike mention that the idea to create and record the song came from Brad Delson, who suggested creating something "thrashy," or the "heaviest" thing the band could think of for the album.

What do you think of the new episode? Are you looking forward to seeing footage of "Overflow" next week? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park on YouTube

Linkin Park's first U.S. arena tour of 2025 is coming to its thrilling conclusion tonight in Greenville, South Carolina. The band will be bringing their high-energy headline show to the 15,000-capacity Bon Secours Wellness Arena, with special guest grandson in tow.

Most of the other cities the band has set foot in during this tour leg are places that haven't seen Linkin Park live shows since 2008, if not earlier. However, in this case, Linkin Park has actually never performed in Greenville. The last time the band performed a show in the state of South Carolina - the only time, before tonight - was back in November of 2000, as part of P.O.D.'s Kings of the Game U.S. tour. This show was less than a month after Hybrid Theory's October 2000 release, and shortly after Phoenix rejoined the line-up.

There have been 5 arena headline shows so far leading up to tonight's Greenville show, and a lot has happened in terms of setlist switch-ups and deep cut surprises. The most recent show, at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina on May 6, was no breather moment either. Towards the end of the main set, the band and audience shared a special wholesome moment celebrating Emily Armstrong's birthday, complete with some tasteful fashion accessories ...

... before Linkin Park turned the festivities way up, surprising the crowd with the debut live performance of the From Zero rager "IGYEIH"!


After the second chorus, Armstrong went in close and personal with fans on the floor - really a first since she began performing in Linkin Park - and performed the final section of the song while deep in the mosh pit, the audience members singing along with her.


There are some sticklers here and there who will point out that Linkin Park hasn't truly brought From Zero's intro track to a live setting yet, but, for most fans, this means that every song off the new album has now been performed live, and all during its tour cycle as well. Many have pointed out that this hasn't been happened with any Linkin Park album since 2007's Minutes to Midnight cycle, making it all the more special.

That wasn't all that happened: the band performed "One Step Closer" immediately after debuting "IGYEIH", and were joined on-stage by their special grandson, just as he did at the Baltimore show on May 3. Once again, the New Jersey vocalist traded lines with Mike Shinoda throughout the choruses, and took the lead on the second verse before joining Armstrong for that iconic bridge.

Additional highlights from the Raleigh set include:

• beloved rotation classics like "Lying From You" and "From the Inside"
• new staples for this tour leg such as "Up From the Bottom" and "Where'd You Go"
• From Zero deep cut "Stained" being performed again, fresh off its live debut in Baltimore
• Shinoda teasing a melody from the Metallica song "One" during the extended "Overflow" intro - just the latest in a line of unexpected song teases here
• Shinoda delivering a verse from his solo cut "Lift Off" during his "When They Come for Me / Remember the Name" segment - actually from a demo version of the song, no less
• Linkin Park using the "A Place for My Head" bridge during "Bleed It Out"

The pressure is on, but fans attending tonight's Greenville show can likely expect Linkin Park to be marking the end of this first arena leg with something truly special.

Right after this date, the band will be kicking off a run of festival dates in the U.S. and abroad. First up will be Sonic Temple in Ohio on May 10, followed by Welcome to Rockville in Florida, on May 17, before the band heads to Europe for some more festival dates there all throughout June.

If you're going to tonight's show, or are otherwise excited to find out what happens, come and let us know on our message board!

A new 22-minute interview video with Linkin Park members Phoenix, Emily Armstrong and Mike Shinoda has been uploaded by Billboard News. Billboard executive Jason Lipshutz chats with the band mainly about the bonus tracks that are appearing on the upcoming deluxe edition of From Zero, releasing in just over a week from now. The musicians explain that these bonus songs were worked on and finished while the band was on tour promoting From Zero in late 2024, something Linkin Park doesn't typically do. Shinoda also mentions that "Up From the Bottom" is the only one of the three that came about entirely post-album.

Among the highlights is a description of the one still-unreleased song "Let You Fade", as covered in Billboard's corresponding article:

[...] “Let You Fade” started off as a not-as-loud song on a demo that just didn’t make the cut before the group pivoted to a piano-and-vocals only arrangement that was transformed into a song that starts off really loud and goes quiet on the bridge. “That piano and vocal thing was the second demo [we recorded during the initial sessions],” Shinoda said. “Of the three it’s probably my favorite.”

When Lipshutz inquires about the possibility of more new songs coming from Linkin Park, the band members explain that, while these songs were completed in the midst of tour dates, they don't plan on continuing that habit. In the meantime, the deluxe edition of From Zero drops on May 16.

The band members are also asked about putting together the tour setlists. As an avid Linkin Park listener, Lipshutz gives a shoutout to the band's fourth album, 2010's A Thousand Suns, while Phoenix explains his view of the collective thought process behind choosing what songs to play and some of the challenges involved in developing and learning the sets.

Other highlights in the interview include Shinoda ranting about having to do dances for TikTok, and describing the joy he got from emotionally manipulating fans with the infamous countdown.

Check out the interview video or read the article covering it!

Source: Billboard / Billboard News on YouTube (via @minusxerø)

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