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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
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 4: 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

After a short break from touring performances, Linkin Park is back for another round! The band's next series of shows will span several festivals and arena shows across Europe over the summer, beginning in Austria!

Linkin Park will be kicking off their Europe summer run with Nova Rock Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria. The band will be headlining alongside Korn, Slipknot, and German electronicore band Electric Callboy. Nova Rock will be the first of six festival performances the band will appear at in Europe this summer—others including Hellfest, Rock Werchter, and I-Days—with nine stadium and arena dates slotted between them throughout June and July.


This will be Linkin Park's eleventh performance in Austria. As with several other European countries, the band's first visit came while supporting Deftones as an opener on the Back to School tour in March 2001, when they played in Vienna. They returned six months later on their own headlining European tour, which turned out to be their last Austrian performance until 2007, due to the band cancelling their appearance at 2004's Aerodrome Festival.

With Nova Rock specifically, Linkin Park has a bit of history, first performing at the Pannonia Fields festival grounds in 2007 during the Minutes to Midnight touring cycle. This performance was marked by complications from a severe weather incident the day prior at Heineken Jammin' in Venice. A sudden downburst collapsed sections of the speaker and lighting towers into the crowd and damaged several performers' equipment, including Linkin Park's. The rest of Heineken Jammin' was immediately cancelled, with Linkin Park among the acts who did not play.

Despite the setback, Linkin Park went forward with Nova Rock the following day. The band's road crew worked with festival organizers to borrow enough gear to fill in the gaps for their performance. Their set, just before headliner Pearl Jam, notably included "Leave Out All the Rest" and "The Little Things Give You Away," debuted at the beginning of the European run, as well as staple "No More Sorrow."


The A Thousand Suns and LIVING THINGS album cycles also saw Linkin Park return to the stage at Nova Rock. The band returned in both 2011 and 2012 as a top-billed headliner alongside artists such as System of a Down, Metallica, and Iron Maiden.

The 2011 set, during their second European run for the A Thousand Suns world tour, included a "Burning in the Skies" chorus over an extended "Bleed It Out" bridge, icons of the album cycle such as "When They Come for Me" and "The Catalyst," and a fiery "One Step Closer" to finish out the encore.


In 2012, high winds again affected the band's performance at Nova Rock, this time the day of. Strong gusts temporarily shut the festival down, forcing Rise Against—scheduled just before Linkin Park—to modify their set and delaying Linkin Park’s own performance. The band dropped several songs to shorten their setlist and fit the new time constraint. However, despite the cuts, the band still kept several highlights, such as "A Place for My Head," "From the Inside," "Bleed It Out" with Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" over the bridge, and extended "Waiting for the End"—with an intro featuring the third verse of "UNTIL IT BREAKS."


The last Linkin Park appearance at Nova Rock was in 2017, when they headlined the festival’s warmup day. The set leaned into One More Light material with a "Talking to Myself" opener, along with "Good Goodbye," "Invisible" and "Heavy." The band's 2017 set at Nova Rock featured many other staples of the One More Light touring cycle: the piano rendition of "Crawling," the buildup intro version of "Leave Out All the Rest," and "What I've Done" with an extended keyboard and synth intro.


Now, eight years since their last time at Nova Rock, Linkin Park is prepared to bring their newest material to the Austrian festival crowds. With this summer run in Europe, the band is at the halfway point of the the year, but not even a quarter of the way through their total shows for 2025! Even so, it has been quite a year so far. Attendees of the earlier tour legs this year saw three band birthdays (Mike, Phoenix, and Emily) and a lot of live debuts.

The first 2025 show in Mexico City saw the debut of "Good Things Go" and "Overflow," which both stayed consistently for all six dates in the Mexico and Asia dates this past winter. The most recent shows of the North American spring run further included the debut performances of all remaining songs from the standard edition of From Zero. "Cut the Bridge," "Stained," and "IGYEIH" made their full live debuts in short order, marking the first time since 2007's Minutes to Midnight that the band has performed all songs from a new album in full.


In addition to the ten tracks off From Zero as released in November 2024, Linkin Park also added the live premieres of two bonus tracks from the album's recent deluxe edition, released just under a month ago. "Up from the Bottom" was used as a staple of the live set for the previous tour leg, and the band surprised attendees of the Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona Beach with the debut of "Let You Fade" on the last tour stop for the spring, just a day after its official release on the From Zero deluxe edition.


Another new addition from the spring shows was a shortened version of Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go," apparently at Emily Armstrong's request. Mike also began a trend of rotating a different verse from across all his recorded material during his solo medley, including verses from "UNTIL IT BREAKS;" Nick Catchdubs' "SKIN TO BONE" remix featured on RECHARGED; Fort Minor's "Petrified" and "There They Go" from The Rising Tied (celebrating its 20th anniversary this November); "Step Up" from the band's 1999 EP; and a demo verse for "Lift Off" from his Post Traumatic album.


Even more recently, Linkin Park played a short one-off set in Munich, Germany, to kick off the UEFA Champions League final on May 31. The band played "The Emptiness Machine," "Numb," "In the End," and "Heavy Is the Crown." All four songs were abridged to meet the time constraints, though the closer "Heavy Is the Crown" also featured elements of "Up from the Bottom," as well as a custom remix of "Numb."


With Linkin Park's nonstop energy and plenty of surprises, the From Zero cycle continues to deliver for fans, and there no signs of the band easing up any time soon. In fact, tickets recently went on sale for another summer run of shows in Europe in 2026, which will also include both Rock am Ring and Rock im Park! The band is certainly making their presence known in Europe in the wake of their comeback—especially considering they have sold out their July 28th date at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London, which has been host to historic performances from artists ranging from Michael Jackson to Queen.

With three festivals under their belt since the band's return, and positive reviews pouring in from Sonic Temple and Welcome to Rockville, Linkin Park seems poised to bring great performances to the European summer festivals. Between their two previous festival performances this year, it's possible the band's summer festival set could follow a similar structure to Columbus and Daytona Beach—with "CASTLE OF GLASS," both Mike and Joe's solo segments, and two of the rotation slots cut.


However, it would be unsurprising if the band pulled out new surprises for Nova Rock. With only one From Zero-era song left to debut ("Unshatter"), and a number of murmurings we have heard from the band about songs they would enjoy playing live (including a now-deleted post from Colin Brittain saying that he would love "Robot Boy," "Runaway," "Shadow of the Day," and "With You," among others), it does seem hopeful for a shakeup in the setlist at some point this year. While it's hard to predict anything reliably, fans would surely not object to some of the names going around, such as "QWERTY" or "Blackout."

Linkin Park is scheduled to take the Blue Stage at 23:30 Central European Summer Time.

Are you attending Nova Rock? Planning on watching a livestream of the band's performance? Come and discuss with us on our forums! Be sure to check the official LPA Meetup Thread for user meetups at each date!

SETLIST:
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
Creation Intro A
07: The Catalyst - abridged; no third chorus or breakdown
08. BURN IT DOWN
09. Up from the Bottom
10. One Step Closer
Collapse Transition
11. Lost - hybrid piano into studio version
12. Overflow
13. What I've Done
14. Numb - "Numb/Encore" intro
15. In the End
16. Faint

ENCORE
Resolution Intro A
17. Papercut
18. Let You Fade
19. Heavy Is the Crown
20. Bleed It Out - extended bridge featuring "A Place for My Head" verse one and breakdown

Linkin Park kicked played their first U.S. show of 2025 earlier this year on April 26, at the Moody Center in Austin, TX. For those keeping tabs, it proved to be quite the memorable set with a number of surprising live debuts.

Now, the band has shared an official video of "Casualty" from that show, the first upload of a North American performance from this year:

Among other things, this live video features a shot of the celebrated Linkin Shark, who made a memorable appearance in the mosh pit during the Austin show and instantly won the hearts of Linkin Park fans around the world.

"Casualty" is, of course, taken off Linkin Park's 2024 studio effort From Zero, and has proven to be a highlight of the band's live shows, starting with the unforgettable debut performance in Dallas, TX last year. Not only was that a live debut, but it even preceded the song's official release and served as a world premiere.

Meanwhile, Linkin Park is about to kick off a European tour leg, which comes after a recent performance for the UEFA Champions League Final Kick Off Show event in Munich, Germany.

Source: Linkin Park on YouTube

As a surprise to the attendees down at Rock am Ring today, it was announced that Linkin Park will be headlining next year's edition of the annual German festivals, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. This adds another couple of Germany dates to the band's 2026 tour in Europe, now totaling 5 shows in the country.

Linkin Park has performed a total of five of Rock am Ring shows to date throughout the years, along with another five Rock im Park shows (the band played two back-to-back Rock im Park days in 2001, and none in 2004.) This announcement comes on the 21-year anniversary of the band's legendary performance at the 2004 edition of Rock am Ring, and we're sure that the 2026 performance will go down in history as well.


No specific date has been announced yet, but tickets for the next year's festival go on sale Tuesday, June 10th.

Are you attending any of these two festivals next year? Have you attended any of the previous Linkin Park performances at Rock am Ring or Rock im Park? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: @Michele

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