Credit: @amigoandco on Instagram After a two-month break from touring and the release of two singles from the upcoming From Zero deluxe edition, Linkin Park is about to start up another leg of live shows! To kickstart this next stretch of their 2025 world tour, the band is starting with a performance in Austin, Texas, capital of the Lone Star State. They'll be taking the stage tomorrow, with opening support by grandson, in the Moody Center arena at the University of Texas. Austin has been having a multi-day Linkin Park takeover leading up to this show, with several local businesses hosting activities and pop-up shops with exclusive merch offered to attendees of this From Zero Fest. Among the businesses partnering is the chain Torchy's Tacos, started in Austin, which yesterday offered the exclusive and iconic "Linkin Pork" taco. Also of note is a handsome porcine mascot with a Linkin Park hat featured on social media promotion; the band has also featured it on some of the exclusive From Zero Fest merchandise. Suffice to say, Linkin Pork Park is going ham for their visit to Austin. The band also hosted a local Linkin Park Underground listening party for the upcoming deluxe edition of From Zero, meaning residents of Austin in the LPU have been the first in the world to hear the remaining unreleased song, "Let You Fade." Linkin Park has a storied history in Texas, having an entire live album (Live in Texas) dedicated to outtakes from two back-to-back performances in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area on Metallica's 2003 Summer Sanitarium tour. However, their touring history in Austin specifically is quite limited. In fact, this is the first time in over 24 years that Linkin Park has performed in the city! The band's last performance in Austin was on October 14, 2000, opening for Kottonmouth Kings on their Ridin' High tour. Their only other known Austin performance was two months prior on August 12, 2000, supporting Union Underground on their An Education in Rebellion tour. This will be their first performance in Austin as headliners, now armed with eight albums of material since their last visit, before the release of their debut album. A lot has changed since then! "A Place for My Head," from Phoenix, Arizona, just three days after the band's first visit to Austin in August 2000. There is one slight caveat to this: Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington did come to Austin to feature during a show by rock supergroup Camp Freddy in December 2012. Mike and Chester featured on several covers, including their own Linkin Park hit "One Step Closer." Austin has most likely heard the song performed by Chester and Mike three times, in technicality! Chester and Mike performing "One Step Closer" alongside Camp Freddy members Dave Navarro, Matt Sorum, Chris Chaney, Donovan Leitch, and Billy Morrison. In terms of setlist, it seems likely Linkin Park will make some tweaks but keep things relatively consistent with the new setlist debuted earlier this year. The band's Mexico and Asia runs remained relatively consistent, rotating between an A, B, and C setlist in order. These setlists shift the transitional pieces used for the setlist, as it was with their 2024 sets, and have two rotating song slots: Set A: "CASTLE OF GLASS" transition theme; "Casualty" in Act 2 rotation slot; "A Place for My Head" in Act 5 (encore) Set B: "Iridescent" transition theme; "Keys to the Kingdom" in Act 2 rotation slot; "Lying from You" in Act 5 (encore) Set C: "BURN IT DOWN" transition theme; "Given Up" in Act 2 rotation slot; "From the Inside" in Act 5 (encore) Fans also saw the live debuts of the From Zero tracks "Good Things Go" and "Overflow," a new hybrid version of "Lost" combining the piano ballad format with the studio version, the return of "From the Inside" for the first time since the band's final performance with Chester, and a new extended bridge for "Bleed It Out" featuring Mike's bridge verse from "Cut the Bridge." The band performing "Overflow" in Jarkarta, Indonesia. There has been plenty of speculation about setlist changes for the 2025 From Zero world tour as time has gone on—from Mike's asides about Emily Armstrong liking "Blackout" and "LIES GREED MISERY" to Colin Brittain's comment on TikTok about the fan-favorite deep cut "QWERTY" being a "good song" they could rehearse. Any one of these songs making a return would be a great surprise for fans. The band laid a few surprises on Texas fans on their last visit to the state, in Arlington, including the first-ever performance of "All for Nothing" from The Hunting Party, so it seems hard to rule anything out entirely these days. It's also possible the band could debut "Stained" or "IGYEIH" tomorrow, the only songs from the album yet to be performed live in any capacity; they wasted no time bringing out "Overflow" and "Good Things Go" in January! Linkin Park's live debut of "All for Nothing," from their last Texas visit in 2024! Two additional obvious picks for addition to the band's setlist are the singles "Up from the Bottom" and "Unshatter." The former will be just under a month old by the time they take the stage at Moody Center, while "Unshatter" has just been released as of today. The high-energy songs both would be perfect fit to add energy to the band's set. Will fans get to see live performances of Joe Hahn's "Up from the Bottom" DJ solo or the heavy guitar riffage of "Unshatter" tomorrow? The band's visualizer video for "Unshatter" We will see what surprises Linkin Park has in store! The band are certainly hyping up their performance in Austin sufficiently with the city takeover. Are you going to this show? Will you be watching for any fan livestreams? Do you think the band will be packing any big surprises for their return to Austin? Come discuss in our forums!
I just want to say that Linkin Pork is the band's way of shaming this site for not doing any fake April Fools branding this year by saying "we can do you one better but for real". For shame. FOR SHAAAAAAAAME.
I'll be at this show! Come find me so I can talk shit about your musical tastes. Unless you'd rather talk shit about Blake.
Have fun, all who's going! I think UFTB will be premiered today. For the rest, too many unknowns, it'll be fun discovering what they have in store.
Selist: 01. Inception Intro A 02. Somewhere I Belong 03. Lying From You 04. Crawling 05. New Divide -Short Moscow Intro 06. The Emptiness Machine 07. Creation Intro A 08. The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown) 09. BURN IT DOWN 10. Up From the Bottom - Live Debut 11. Where'd You Go - Shortened (Intro/First Verse/Chorus Only) 12. Waiting for the End 13. CASTLE OF GLASS 14. Two Faced 15. Joe Solo - with Colin 16. Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', 'UNTIL IT BREAKS' & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin 17. Casualty 18. One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro 19. Collapse Transition 20. Lost - Hybrid Version 21. Over Each Other 22. What I've Done 23. Kintsugi Transition 24. Overflow 25. Numb - Numb/Encore Intro 26. In the End 27. Faint - Extended Outro 28. Resolution Intro A 29. Papercut - Extended Intro 30. A Place for My Head 31. Heavy Is the Crown 32. Bleed It Out - Extended bridge w/ There They Go v1; Extended outro Notes: The band moved Crawling down a spot, playing Lying From You before it. Up From the Bottom was played for the first time, taking the spot that Over Each Other normally was played in. Over Each Other was instead played after Lost, replacing Good Things Go. Where'd You Go was played before Waiting For the End The transition to Remember the Name was extended because Mike went into the crowd and rapped the third verse from UNTIL IT BREAKS
Additional notes: - Emily flubbed the end of Casualty - Mike mentioned WYD was a special request before they played it. Emily gestured to herself when he said that. - Mike not only rapped on the barrier of the pit during ITE, but went up into one of the bowl sections.