Image credit: @radnomadvisuals on Instagram Tonight, Linkin Park is performing at the Prudential Center, an indoor arena in the city of Newark, NJ with a capacity of around 16,000. This is the fourth date for 2025's North American tour leg, with the band having just played two nights in a row at TD Garden in Boston, MA, marking the first time they've done that with headlining shows in North America. Linkin Park will once again see support from alt-rock act PVRIS, who has opened for the band on all three previous dates on this leg, including the pair of shows in Lynn Gunn's home state of Massachusetts. Linkin Park has never performed in Newark before, but fans who have kept up with the band's tour dates throughout their career will know that they have performed extensively in the state of New Jersey over the years. The list of the band's previous shows there - there have been 18 in total - reaches all the way back to the year 2000. On December 3, 2000, months after the Hybrid Theory release, the band performed a show at a club called Birch Hill Nite Club located in the township of Old Bridge. This was one of several live events for the band from late November and early December, situated right between wrapping up a U.S. run with P.O.D. on their Kings of the Game tour and getting back on the road in December to be support for Papa Roach's Master Bay tour. Setlist details for shows around this time have never been uncovered. In July of 2001, Linkin Park performed in Camden, NJ for the first time as part of the 2001 Ozzfest line-up, making stops at a theater venue called Tweeter Center (nowadays known as the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion) twice within that month on the same festival run: first on July 9, and, then, coming back on July 21. At this point in their career, Linkin Park was fairly low on the bill, and their setlist for the first show simply consisted of 9 songs from Hybrid Theory, opening with "With You" and closing with the one-two punch of "A Place for My Head" and "One Step Closer". For the second time around, while we could reasonably assume they played the exact same set, no reliable confirmation exists. Later in 2001, on October 24, Linkin Park played in East Rutherford, NJ at the Continental Airlines Arena (these days known as Meadowlands Arena) as part of the Korn's annual Family Values Tour, with Stone Temple Pilots in the headline slot. For this show, "Forgotten" was cut from the setlist, something which was a rarity at that particular point in time but which would happen more and more throughout the remainder of the Hybrid Theory touring cycle. Aside from that change, the band kept to the same setlist they had used throughout the rest of the tour, "With You" being the opening song and "Crawling" and "One Step Closer" being paired at the end. For "One Step Closer", Linkin Park was joined on-stage by Aaron Lewis, frontman of the band Staind, another act on the Family Values Tour line-up. This happened a handful of times throughout the tour, including the show prior in Albany, NY. On July 8, 2003, Linkin Park returned to East Rutherford to play a set at Giants Stadium (now MetLife Stadium) as part of Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour. This event also doubled as the 2003 edition of Dysfunctional Family Picnic, an on-and-off yearly live rock show put on by the NY-based radio station WXRK 92.3, also known as K-Rock, similar to KROQ's Weenie Roast. Linkin Park performed the same setlist throughout the entire Summer Sanitarium run, largely identical to the 2003 Projekt Revolution festival tour earlier in the year but with some of the Meteora deep cuts swapped out. It featured highlights such as: "Figure.09" and "Numb", both newer songs which had only been played once prior to this tour leg; an arrangement of "With You" featuring elements from the Reanimation version; a extended intro for "By Myself" which the band used throughout 2003; "P5hing Me A*wy", a Reanimation highlight which had its live debut a few months prior on 2003's Projekt Revolution festival tour, and; an extended bridge for "One Step Closer" featuring the bridge verse originally performed by Jonathan Davis as a guest on the Reanimation version, something the band did throughout the entire Meteora tour cycle. Linkin Park documented this festival setlist by filming shows on the Summer Sanitarium tour for two live releases: the 2003 CD/DVD package Live in Texas, and the Veterans Stadium 2003 DVD, eventually included in the Super Deluxe Box Set edition of the Meteora anniversary re-release in 2023 On July 30, 2004, as part of the 2004 Projekt Revolution festival tour, the band took their show to Holmdel, NJ for the first time and performed at PNC Bank Arts Center, an 17,500-capacity amphitheater venue. Staples of the 2004 festival sets included: extended intros for various songs, including more guitar-driven ones for "Don't Stay", "Somewhere I Belong" and "Numb"; Reanimation-derived arrangements or intros for "Points of Authority", "With You", "Crawling" and "One Step Closer", a hip-hop medley featuring sections of "Step Up", "Nobody's Listening" and "It's Goin' Down"; an extended outro for "Figure.09" to transition into "From the Inside" debuted on the tour (nicknamed "Blood, Anger, Suffering" by fans), and; a cover of the song "Wish" from Nine Inch Nails' 1992 EP Broken towards the end of the set, which Linkin Park did for the first time during an international festival tour earlier in the year. The July 30 Holmdel show, which featured all of these, still ended up being distinct from the Mansfield, MA right before it thanks entirely to a surprise appearance by Jay-Z, who Linkin Park had been in the studio with just weeks prior to record their collaborative EP Collision Course. To accommodate this, "Lying From You" and "Faint" were removed to shorten the main set; Jay-Z then came out during the encore segment, which was lengthened by two songs when he and Linkin Park performed "Dirt off Your Shoulder / Lying From You" and "Big Pimpin' / Papercut", before the band closed out their show with "One Step Closer". A few days later, on on the same tour leg, Linkin Park returned to Tweeter Center in Camden, playing the unaltered version of the 2004 festival set. During "Faint" at this show, the band invited a fan on-stage to play Brad Delson's guitar part, something which didn't happen on any other dates during the tour leg. With Korn being part of the Projekt Revolution line-up for 2004, Jonathan Davis also joined Linkin Park on-stage during show closer "One Step Closer" to sing on the bridge, something which happened throughout the tour, with the Holmdel show being a rare exception. Video of the real-time footage from the performance shown on screens at the event (for the audience), with an audio feed from the show, was taken from a circulating DVD and leaked online in May 2011 by Linkin Park Live. During the Minutes to Midnight promotional cycle, on May 6, Linkin Park performed in the parking lot of Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, as part of a multi-day festival event called The Bamboozle for which they were billed as a headline act. This set featured new extended intros for "Somewhere I Belong", "Papercut" and "Points of Authority" (the latter debuted at this show), and also featured existing staples from this point in the touring cycle like the extended intro for "What I've Done" derived from the keyboard interlude heard on the album, the piano-based version of "Pushing Me Away", and a new extended ending for "Faint" to finish the encore segment with. "Runaway" was also featured in this setlist, the one and only time it appeared during the Minutes to Midnight tour cycle; after this, it was kept off setlists until the LIVING THINGS cycle in 2012. Later in the year, Linkin Park once again put together an edition of their Projekt Revolution summer tour and included returns to Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ on August 25 and PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ on August 29. By this point, the band had fully embraced preparing several setlists and rotating them night-to-night. The Camden show on August 25 saw a new setlist which opened with "No More Sorrow", typically indicating Set B from that tour's usual setlists, but the band threw in "Don't Stay" (with its "Foreword" intro), and apparently removed "QWERTY" as a result. New additions to the setlist at this point included: a lengthy extended intro for "No More Sorrow" used whenever it was the first song up; Mike Shinoda picking out new rap verses to deliver over the extended instrumental intro for "Points of Authority" - for this Camden show, he performed one from the Fort Minor single "Petrified"; "Shadow of the Day", which saw its live debut at the beginning of the 2007 Projekt Revolution tour; an extended intro for "The Little Things Give You Away"; a new arrangement of the Hybrid Theory instrumental cut "Cure for the Itch", performed solo by Mr. Hahn as part of the encore segment; "Bleed It Out" and "Faint" becoming closing songs, depending on the setlist. A few shows later, on August 29, Holmdel saw a similar setlist to the Camden show, but with many of the songs moved around; this setlist would return sporadically throughout the rest of the tour with slight differences. Recordings from this show appeared on a couple of 2007 releases from the band: "Bleed It Out" was included on the Shadow of the Day single CD, while "Crawling" and "Faint" later appeared on the fan-club exclusive LP Underground 7. The two New Jersey cities would again both appear on the itinerary in 2008 for that year's edition of Projekt Revolution, with a show in Camden at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden on July 19 and (once again) PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel days later on July 23. These two shows had largely-identical setlists, and differences from the 2007 festival sets include: Street Drum Corps playing one of two intros to introduce Linkin Park, depending on which of the band's songs was starting off the set ("No More Sorrow", the first song in both of these NJ sets, was preceded by an intro labelled "Train/Tailpipe"); a extended intros for "Lying From You" and "Wake", both of which the band began using during the mid-2008 European tour; a brief extended ending for "Given Up" which the band introduced at the beginning of 2008; "Points of Authority" now being outfitted with a new extended outro, with a Motown-style rhythm over which Shinoda would deliver a rap verse from his Fort Minor deep cut "There They Go"; "Crawling" getting an extended intro with elements from the Reanimation version, "KRWLNG", over which Shinoda would rap the opening verse from "Hands Held High" (which was otherwise not performed on this tour) and Chris Cornell joining Linkin Park on-stage to sing from the song's second verse and on; an extended ending for "One Step Closer" - much like with "Bleed It Out" and "Faint", the band has continued to iterate on this since and still performs it now; Busta Rhymes, with his backing vocalist Spliff Star and Ashes Divide touring band member Adam Monroe (on keyboard) joining Linkin Park on-stage to perform "We Made It" - Busta Rhymes was only briefly part of 2008's Projekt Revolution, and the July 23 Holmdel show was the final performance of the song on the tour; Street Drum Corps returning to add some extra drums during the bridge and outro of "Bleed It Out". There were also other differences like the full-band version of "Pushing Me Away" making a return, alternating with the piano version depending on the setlist. The Camden set saw the encore segment start with "Cure for the Itch", the only song in the set which was not later performed Holmdel. In 2012, Linkin Park embarked on the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus and Mutemath, their first U.S. run following the release of LIVING THINGS. This included a stop in Camden, NJ where the band again performed at Susquehanna Bank Center on August 17. The show was preceded by the sixth LPU Summit; among other things, the band members treated attendees to intimate acoustic renditions of "The Messenger" and "In My Remains": The show itself featured a setlist which appeared to combine a couple of versions of the festival sets the band had been touring throughout Europe with earlier in the year. It opened with "A Place for My Head" and "Given Up" as usual, but deviated from there, with "Runaway" and "From the Inside" both removed and replaced by "When They Come for Me". "TINFOIL" and "Faint" opened up the encore segment, followed by a "Lying from You" and "Papercut" medley which the band debuted at this show, and marking the first time "Lying from You" was included in an encore since the 2004 Holmdel, NJ show. Other than that, there were some things which carried over from previous 2012 tour legs: a new intro for "Somewhere I Belong"; an extended intro for "Waiting for the End" which featured a rap verse from "UNTIL IT BREAKS"; a ballad medley which comprised "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day" and "Iridescent"; an extended intro for "LOST IN THE ECHO"; "Numb" now sporting a new intro and outro drawn from "Numb / Encore", and; the band covering Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" as part of the extended bridge for "Bleed It Out". Nearly exactly two years later, on August 15, 2014 Linkin Park would return to New Jersey for the Carnivores Tour, playing at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden on August 15 and PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on August 18. Similar to the Honda Civic run in 2012, the Carnivores dates were Linkin Park's first U.S. shows coming after the release of their 2014 album The Hunting Party. For both of these shows, the band came armed with an altered version of their European festival setlist, having added in "Rebellion" and "Final Masquerade" at the start of the tour leg, shortening "Until It's Gone" and removing the shortened arrangement of "A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES". This period of the band's live shows is largely-defined by various songs being performed with shortened arrangements, such as "Papercut", "With You", "LOST IN THE ECHO", "New Divide", and more; additionally, instrumental passages from "Blackout" and "Robot Boy" were used as interludes to introduce other songs. 11 years on from that, tonight's show in Newark is the fourth date of Linkin Park's 2025 North American leg of the From Zero World Tour. The band most recently did two sold-out nights in a row at TD Garden in Boston, MA, and it seems they put some meaningful effort in to make them both distinct from one another. The first show, on July 31, featured crowd favourite "Cut the Bridge" (after a fake-out with the "New Divide" extended intro, of course) and "Lying from You" early on; later surprises included "Given Up" and "Good Things Go", both in the latter half of the main set, and, finally, "A Place for My Head" during the encore segment. Not content with just doing that again, Linkin Park's second night in Boston on August 1 featured some curveballs, starting with "Points of Authority" making its first appearance on this tour leg. A few songs later, PVRIS' Lynn Gunn surprised the audience, coming up onto the stage to after the first chorus of "BURN IT DOWN", and taking the lead on the second verse. Throughout the rest of the set, From Zero cuts "IGYEIH", "Stained" and "Let You Fade" also appeared, all songs which had not appeared in the previous two shows in the tour leg, helping to further differentiate the two Boston shows. Right in the middle of it all, of course, Linkin Park brazenly performed LIVING THINGS deep-cut "LIES GREED MISERY", a song long-requested not just by fervent Linkin Park fans but also members of the band. "LIES GREED MISERY" is the first LIVING THINGS song to be newly-added into a setlist this cycle since "LOST IN THE ECHO" was performed during the very first From Zero tour date. This iteration of Linkin Park has performed precious few songs from the album. After wasting no time establishing "BURN IT DOWN" and "CASTLE OF GLASS" upon announcing their return last year, they then brought out "LOST IN THE ECHO" during the very first From Zero tour date, and played it fairly regularly during the rest of 2024. While the former two songs have largely stayed on as staples, 2025 has not seen a single performance of "LOST IN THE ECHO" so far. Linkin Park then proceeded to further shock the world by performing "Heavy Is the Crown" and "Bleed It Out" to close out the main set instead of saving them for the encore segment like usual, and finishing out the show with "In the End" and "Faint" instead. The message is clear: there is simply no telling what the band will do next when they play in Newark tonight. Some fans will nonetheless be keenly watching to see if "LIES GREED MISERY" is performed again, while others are hoping for "Keys to the Kingdom" to make a return. Some are even still holding out hope that From Zero B-side "Unshatter" will finally see its live debut. With PVRIS still the support act for several more tour dates, there is a good chance Lynn Gunn might take the stage to sing with Linkin Park again, though that may have been a one-time thing for a home state show. Aside from that, Linkin Park has established quite the arsenal of songs to use from just these past three setlists alone, with newer staples like "The Emptiness Machine", "Two Faced", "Up From the Bottom", and other From Zero songs still continuing to become major show highlights right alongside reliable longtime hits like "BURN IT DOWN" and "One Step Closer". Following tonight's Newark show, Linkin Park will Canada, playing two back-to-back dates at Centre Bell in Montreal, QC on August 5 and August 6, before a third and final Canadian stop in Toronto, ON on August 8. In the meantime, if you're going to tonight's show in Newark, NJ, let us know! Upcoming Shows: Aug. 03, 2025: Newark, NJ Aug. 05, 2025: Montréal, QC Aug. 06, 2025: Montréal, QC Aug. 08, 2025: Toronto, ON Aug. 11, 2025: Chicago, IL Aug. 14, 2025: Detroit, MI Aug. 16, 2025: Philadelphia, PA Aug. 19, 2025: Pittsburgh, PA
SETLIST: - 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 - with Lynn Gunn from Pvris 08: Up From the Bottom 09: Where'd You Go - Shortened (intro, first verse, and first chorus only) 10: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro 11: LIES GREED MISERY 12: Two Faced 13: Joe Solo - with Colin 14: Mike Solo Medley - "When They Come for Me," "Petrified" verse 1, & "Remember the Name" mashup; with Colin 15: Casualty 16: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro - 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: From the Inside 23: Heavy Is the Crown 24: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "A Place for My Head" verse 1; extended outro ACT 5 - Encore (Resolution Intro A) 25: Papercut - Extended intro 26: In the End 27: Faint - Extended outro
I fucking hope not. Completely unacceptable to lose one of their best songs for such a mid one as LIES GREED MISERY
Not too worried about COG, surely they'll rotate it at the least. Good to get a few performances of LGM, so there is more chance they ace one of them. The previous one was a bit shaky