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!
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Setlist! Awesome return for the full headlining set. Can't wait to see Berlin! ACT 1 (Inception Intro A) 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Lying From You 03: Crawling 04: New Divide - short Moscow intro 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: CASTLE OF GLASS 12: Two Faced 13: Joe Solo Set 14: When They Come for Me/Remember the Name - Mike solo medley; "I.O.U." verse one over transition 15: Casualty 16: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro; with grandson ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) 17: Lost - Hybrid Version 18: Over Each Other 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 A) 24: Papercut - Extended Intro 25: Let You Fade 26: Heavy Is the Crown 27: Bleed It Out - Extended Bridge with "Cut the Bridge" first verse; extended Outro The Mike verses over his medley are really cool. I hope he keeps digging for new ones! Would love to see some really deep cuts. I would bet we probably see "Hand Held High" and "High Voltage" at some point. Maybe even a verse from "Good Goodbye" if he feels up to it!
Yeah absolutely. They both have that constant snare beat Motown beat-style drumming, even though CTB gets a little more complex with it than BIO. That connection was definitely one of my first thoughts hearing it for the first time at a listening party. They're great mashed together! But I still resent when people say they're the same song!
That full set is where all the fun is. And potentially the only chance for Unshatter to ever gets its debut... at some point