June 26, 2025 - Arnhem, Netherlands: From Zero World Tour 2025

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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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:

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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:

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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 ...

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July 01, 2025: Düsseldorf, Germany
July 03, 2025: Werchter, Belgium | Rock Werchter Festival
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July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany
July 11, 2025: Paris, France

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SETLIST:

ACT 1 (Inception Intro C)
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Points of Authority
03: Crawling
04: New Divide
05: The Emptiness Machine

ACT 2 (Creation Intro C)
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," "LIES GREED MISERY" verse 1, & "Remember the Name" mashup; with Colin
15: IGYEIH
16: One Step Closer

ACT 3 (Collapse Transition)
17: Lost - hybrid version
18: Stained
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 C)
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

 

This is actually one I forgot about, definitely would be a great one for them to bring back as well