LINKIN PARK officially launched its comeback mini-tour on Wednesday night (September 11) at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. The band delivered a two-hour performance in a rare 360-degree circular stage setup, creating a unique production and allowing for a larger-than-usual audience at the venue.
Like their September 5 one-hour global livestream concert in Los Angeles, the Kia Forum show featured new members Emily Armstrong (vocals) and Colin Brittain (drums), who joined returning bandmates Mike Shinoda, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, Joe Hahn, and Brad Delson in LINKIN PARK‘s new lineup.
Guitarist Alex Feder filled in for Delson during both the livestream and the Kia Forum show and will continue to tour with the band in Delson‘s place for the time being.
The setlist for the Kia Forum show was as follows:
01. Somewhere I Belong
02. Crawling
03. Lying From You
04. Points Of Authority
05. New Divide
06. The Emptiness Machine
07. The Catalyst
08. Burn It Down
09. Waiting For The End
10. Castle Of Glass
11. Joe Hahn Solo
12. When They Come For Me / Remember The Name
13. Lost In The Echo
14. Given Up
15. One Step Closer
16. Lost
17. Breaking The Habit
18. What I’ve Done
19. Leave Out All The Rest
20. My December
21. Friendly Fire
22. Numb
23. In The End
24. Faint
Encore:
25. Papercut
26. Keys To The Kingdom
27. Bleed It Out
LINKIN PARK recently dropped a new single titled “The Emptiness Machine” and revealed that their upcoming album, From Zero, is set to be released on November 15 through Warner. This will be the band’s first full-length album since 2017’s One More Light, which was the final album featuring late lead vocalist Chester Bennington.
In a recent interview with Brian Haddad and Kenzie Roman from Chicago’s Q101 radio station, LINKIN PARK‘s Mike Shinoda discussed the band’s decision to reform with a new lineup, now including singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, alongside returning members Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Joe Hahn.
Shinoda said: “In the middle of the process, we were open to, like, maybe the lineup is like a moving lineup, maybe there’s multiple vocalists, maybe it’s a different name, stuff like that. And then as the music came into focus, we were, like, ‘This is as LINKIN PARK an album as we could make. It’s so LINKIN PARK that if we call it something else, then we are idiots.’ Because it would be like misrepresentation. It’d be silly. And when people hear more of the album, they will understand that.”
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