Linkin Park's colossal South America tour leg continues tonight with a show at Parque de la Ciudad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Parque de la Ciudad, or City Park, originally opened in 1982 as an amusement park. Today, it serves as a public park and also as a venue for large-scale outdoor events, with a capacity of 70,000, and it will be hosting Linkin Park for the first time. This show will also be professionally filmed thanks to the Argentine telecommunications company Flow, who will broadcast Linkin Park's set live via their own channel 605 for subscribers within Argentina, beginning at 9 PM local time. This is the third stop on the 2025 South American From Zero leg, which began just last week with stops in Colombia and Perú. For the entire run, which will see the final Linkin Park live shows for 2025, the band is being supported by the one and only Poppy, whose 2024 release Negative Spaces cemented her as one of today's biggest names in heavy music. Linkin Park has performed three shows in Argentina previously, across three different tour cycles, and all at venues within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. All three of these Buenos Aires tour dates marked the start of South American tour legs; two of the three launched those entire tour cycles, making them especially important in the band's touring history. The band's first show in Buenos Aires was on October 7, 2010, at the 50,000-capacity Estadio Vélez Sarsfield (nowadays known as Estadio José Amalfitani, or José Amalfitani Stadium). This was the very first headline show for the A Thousand Suns tour cycle, kicking off a South American / European tour leg after releasing their fourth album. Portions of the show were professionally shot and broadcast on the Argentine news channel Todo Noticias. The main portion of the setlist started off with album highlight "Wretches and Kings" and ended on "One Step Closer", as a fair amount of the 2010 shows did. Being the first headline date of the whole tour cycle, this Buenos Aires show included a few A Thousand Suns cuts being performed live to an audience for the first time, including "When They Come for Me", "Wisdom, Justice, And Love" and the album closer "The Messenger". Further fleshing out the set was the the Mario Savio speech sampled throughout "Wretches and Kings" being played and manipulated over the "Radiance" instrumentation as part of the show's intro, instead of the typical Robert J. Oppenheimer speech as heard on the album version. The Oppenheimer speech, in turn, was made part of a very somber extended outro for "Numb". Both of these arrangements would remain a constant throughout the A Thousand Suns tour setlists. The band wrapped the encore segment with "What I've Done", as they had done for the album release show in New York a month prior, and as seen in the Todo Noticias footage. Soon after this show, "What I've Done" would be relegated to penultimate song in the encore portion, with "Bleed It Out" typically ending the shows from that point on. Roughly two years later, on October 5, 2012, Linkin Park performed a stadium headline show in Buenos Aires once again, this time at the 12,000-capacity Estadio G.E.B.A., to start off the South American / South African portion of their 2012 LIVING THINGS world tour. The band had been very active throughout the earlier parts of 2012, with a European summer festival run and the 2012 Honda Civic tour already under their belt, while also promoting LIVING THINGS with various media appearances. Like many of the 2012 shows prior to the South American run, Linkin Park's Buenos Aires show started off with a one-two punch: "A Place for My Head" and "Given Up". This combo proved to be a little too heavy, perhaps, as the crowd then needed to be calmed down before the set could continue. The band cut "New Divide" short while they ensured that concertgoers in the pit were safe. Various songs from the band's new album were performed during the show, including "VICTIMIZED" (in an arrangement which incorporated parts of "QWERTY"), "LIES GREED MISERY", "LOST IN THE ECHO" (with some intro elements missing due some sample trigger issues) and lead single "BURN IT DOWN". Alongside new songs were the return of some older songs for the 2012 / 2013 setlists, such as the Hybrid Theory fan-favourites "With You" and "Runaway". Other typical elements of the LIVING THINGS shows which showed up in the Buenos Aires setlist include Mike Shinoda performing a verse from "UNTIL IT BREAKS" over the extended "Waiting for the End" intro, the "Leave Out All the Rest" / "Shadow of the Day" / "Iridescent" medley, and a cover of Beastie Boys' 1994 single "Sabotage" worked into an extended "Bleed It Out" arrangement (in honour of Beastie Boys member MCA who had passed away in May 2012). Almost five years later, on May 6, 2017, Linkin Park was a headline act on the Argentina's Maximus Festival bill, the first of a two-date rock event, with the second date taking place in Brazil a few days after (where Linkin Park also headlined). The Argentine date for 2017's Maximus Festival took place at Tecnópolis, an 12,000-capacity indoor exhibition venue in the town of Villa Martelli, which falls within the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. This show was the first festival performance of the One More Light touring cycle, kicking off a brief South American tour leg which was bookended with the two Maximus Festival headline performances. Leading up to it was a series of promotional radio and television appearances throughout North American and Europe; right after it would be the U.S. promotional ramp-up to the album's May 19 release. The Maximus show was broadcast by Vorterix, an Argentine radio station and streaming platform, allowing viewers worldwide to watch Linkin Park's set live via their app or website, depending on region. In April of 2020, Vorterix uploaded the entire set in high-definition to their official YouTube channel: The setlist for this show started off with a new intro, an arrangement which combined elements from the A Thousand Suns interlude "Fallout" with effected vocal elements from the LIVING THINGS deep cut "ROADS UNTRAVELED" (marking the latter song's very first appearance of any kind in a Linkin Park set). This intro would continue to be used throughout the One More Light shows. It was followed up by a shortened arrangement of "The Catalyst"; the band repeated this when they performed their second Maximus set in São Paulo a few days later, but most of the subsequent One More Light live shows would begin with "Talking to Myself" instead, including the other two South America dates on the same tour leg. Other changes to the older songs include an arrangement of "In the End" incorporating a surprise pause where the crowd would continue singing on their own, "Crawling" being transformed into a piano ballad, and an extended bridge during "What I've Done" where Brad Delson performed a longer and more elaborate guitar solo. Additionally, some One More Light cuts naturally saw their proper live debuts at this show: the rock numbers "Talking to Myself" and "Battle Symphony", and the trap-infused "Good Goodbye", with Shinoda performing an unused rap verse in place of the guest verses heard on the album. Over 10 years on, Linkin Park is now set for a grand return to Buenos Aires. For once, it is not at the top of the South America itinerary but third, and it comes after a whole year of the band touring in support of their eighth studio album From Zero. With a history like the one LP has in Argentina, and looking at how the band has performed already on the first two South America dates, fans can be certain the band is bringing nothing less than their A-game to the stage. The most recent show, October 28 at Estadio San Marcos in Lima, Perú, saw Linkin Park shaking things up with "New Divide" appearing after "Up From the Bottom" (still appearing early in the set), and "Cut the Bridge" and "Given Up" worked back in as well. Some of the songs which surprisingly re-appeared following the Bogota show are "Stained" and "From the Inside", though both in different places in the setlist. The band closed out the main set with "In the End" and "Faint", and thus returned to their more typical encore segment which ends with"Heavy Is the Crown" and "Bleed It Out". It's reasonable to expect that these will alternate more as we go along. Also, while Poppy did not join Linkin Park on-stage for "One Step Closer" this time, the band made sure that fans in Lima got an equally-ferocious performance of the song: After tonight's Buenos Aires show, Linkin Park will keep the South America shows going. The band's next couple of dates will see them playing at Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile on November 2, followed by Estádio Couto Pereira in Curitiba, Brazil on November 5 (the first of three shows throughout Brazil). With Shinoda and co. clearly still in top form for their passionate South American fans, tonight's show is definitely worth keeping an eye on. If you're attending or otherwise keeping tabs like we are, we'd love to hear from you! The upcoming shows: Oct. 31, 2025: Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov. 02, 2025: Santiago, Chile Nov. 05, 2025: Curitiba, Brazil Nov. 08, 2025: São Paulo, Brazil Nov. 11, 2025: Brasília, Brazil Nov. 16, 2025: Mexico City, Mexico
So if I'm not mistaken, this will be the first proshot of an entire full set in a very long time, excluding the comeback show. Well at least for the argentinian subscribers.
Other than the November 14, 2024 show this will be the only full show proshot in the From Zero era ---- SETLIST: - ACT 1 (Inception Intro C) - 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Lying From You 03: Up From the Bottom 04: New Divide - Short Moscow intro 05: The Emptiness Machine - with From Zero (Intro) - ACT 2 (Creation Intro C) - 06: The Catalyst - Shortened (no third chorus; no breakdown) 07: BURN IT DOWN 08. Cut the Bridge 09: Where'd You Go - Shortened (intro, first verse, and first chorus only) 10: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro 11. CASTLE OF GLASS 12. Two Faced 13: Joe Solo - With Colin 14: Mike Solo Medley - "When They Come for Me" both verses, & "Remember the Name" mashup; with Colin 15. Casualty 16: One Step Closer - With Poppy; 2024 intro & outro - ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) - 17: Lost - Hybrid version 18: Good Things Go 19: What I've Done - ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition) - 20: Overflow 21: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 22: A Place for My Head 23: In the End 24: Faint - Extended outro - ACT 5 - Encore (Resolution Intro C) - 25: Papercut - Extended intro 26: Heavy is the Crown 27: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "There They Go" verse 1; extended outro
Amazing show, what a crowd, just watch the Faint intro, crazy stuff. The FZ songs are way too good live, the energy is ridiculous. I hope a lot of them stay staple during the next cycle, even at the cost of older classics.