August 27, 2025 - Minneapolis, MN: From Zero World Tour 2025

Image credit: @radnomadvisuals​

After a smashing performance for their first-ever headlining show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Linkin Park is continuing across the US Midwest with a date in Minneapolis, Minnesota! The band is over halfway through this North American leg and is still carrying momentum. They will be bringing their energy to Minneapolis to continue the From Zero World Tour and bring their new lineup and material to cities that have yet to see the band since the beginning of this new era.

Minneapolis will be hosting Linkin Park at the Target Center. This will be the band's fourth date played in Minneapolis, though they have visited the Twin Cities region several other times, with St. Paul just across the Mississippi River and a suburb of that city, Falcon Heights, where the band played at the Minnesota State Fair in 2014, their last time in Minnesota before tomorrow.

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In terms of Minneapolis, the band's history is confined to their first two album cycles, with neighboring St. Paul getting the band's visits in their later career. After some dates in St. Paul in 2000, the Street Soldiers Tour—Linkin Park's first headlining tour—visited Minneapolis in February 2001 at the tour's halfway point. While many of those dates don't have confirmed setlists, guesses about Minneapolis can be made from the band's date two days later in St. Louis, Missouri: the band opened with "With You" to launch into a 13-song performance that included "High Voltage," "And One," and ended in a heavy three-song closing order featuring "A Place for My Head," "Forgotten," and "One Step Closer."

Audio recording of the band's full set in St. Louis, Missouri, two days after Minneapolis. Also features pictures from the concertgoer!​

The band returned to Minneapolis two years later in March 2003 for their LP Underground Tour, just ten days ahead of Meteora's release. That tour is well-known for the number of Meteora songs that debuted, as well as its inclusion of the short-lived live numbers "Hit the Floor" and "Easier to Run," which were dropped before that same summer to never reappear. A video compilation of "Easier to Run" live footage was released with the fourth LP Underground CD, featuring several shows across the tour, including Minneapolis. Many of the shots from Minneapolis were audience shots from that performance.

The "Easier to Run" live video featured with Linkin Park Underground 4.0.​

Just four months later, Linkin Park came back to Minneapolis for the last time in their career to date, as part of Metallica's Summer Sanitarium run. While "Hit the Floor" and "Easier to Run" had left the setlist at this point, the now-staple "Numb" had finally found its place on the band's setlists, ahead of its release as a single in the fall. The deep cut "Figure.09" also featured on this setlist, among a heavy mid-setlist run also featuring "Faint," "From the Inside," "With You," and "By Myself."

Full footage of Linkin Park's opener set for Summer Sanitarium in Minneapolis.​

Following their Summer Sanitarium performance, the band moved toward St. Paul for their Minnesota dates. They played in St. Paul in 2008 and 2011 in support of Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns, then returned to play at the Minnesota State Fair during the Carnivores Tour in August 2014.

"Papercut," with the transitional instrumental "Blackout" intro, live at the Minnesota State Fair during the Carnivores Tour in 2014 (this video does work; just YouTube preview shenanigans).​

After 22 years (and exactly one month), the band has decided to return to Minneapolis itself for their From Zero World Tour. Following the band's date in Nashville, Tennessee, last week, they have made their way into the Midwest region of the United States. St. Louis and Milwaukee both saw performances that slightly shook up the setlist rotation order and featured more impromptu fun by the band, including a moment in St. Louis where Mike and the band's crew briefly moshed to "Two Faced." Despite being over halfway through their longest leg since returning, Linkin Park still looks completely energized and unfettered by the sheer number of dates they have been playing.

The end of "Points of Authority" into "Stained" at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.​

Minneapolis should feature the Setlist C structure the band has been using, last seen in Nashville. However, the band has made a few tweaks in their past couple of shows: both St. Louis and Milwaukee saw "New Divide" dropped from the set, and "Stained" moved to the first act. Normally performed in the third act "ballad" rotation slot on the C set, the song was included early in the set for sets A and B. As "Stained" is normally the Setlist C pick for the "ballad" rotation, the band may bring back "New Divide" for Minneapolis. "Points of Authority" also made a surprise appearance in Milwaukee's Setlist B, which normally does not feature it.

Footage of the band performing their lead single off From Zero, "The Emptiness Machine," in St. Louis.​

Minneapolis should also see "CASTLE OF GLASS," as it has continued to alternate with "LIES GREED MISERY," which was featured in Milwaukee. The two songs have been holding down the middle of the second act and provide some extra representation for 2012's LIVING THINGS.

Linkin Park's performance of "LIES GREED MISERY" in Nashville.​

Other rotation songs that fans can likely expect to see in Minneapolis include "Let You Fade," "IGYEIH," and "Points of Authority," barring any surprises from the band. While "Keys to the Kingdom" was performed for the second night in Montréal in place of "IGYEIH," it seems the latter is the more common choice for Setlist C to represent the band's newest album. We will see what the band has in store tomorrow night!

With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you!

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Upcoming Shows:
August 29: Omaha, NE
August 31: Kansas City, MO
September 3: Denver, CO
September 6: Phoenix, AZ
September 13: Los Angeles, CA
September 15: San Jose, CA

 

Side-note, but I love the banner picture for this show!

 

Had to give Nash some representation and that "IGYEIH" pic was just too good not to use