Image credit: @radnomadvisuals on Instagram Linkin Park makes their glorious return to Sweden for the only Nordic show on the From Zero World Tour! (Suck it, Denmark!) It has been six years since the last time Linkin Park played a show in Sweden. With only two shows in the country, and both of them being played in the Ericsson Globe, this makes it the first festival show that the band will play. I hope. The band has a bit of a bad history with playing festivals in Sweden, having been scheduled for the Hultsfred festival in both 2003 and 2008. Both shows had to be cancelled, the one in 2003 had long notice due to the band cancelling their entire Europe tour due to Chester injuring his back, In Flames stepped in and took the bands place. The show in 2008 was cancelled with 3 hours notice, Brad couldn't fly from Finland due to an ear infection. The show afterwards in Bern, Switzerland had to be cancelled as well. But let's talk about when Linkin Park actually DID play in the country instead. Their first successful show came in 2007, just a few days after the release of Minutes to Midnight. This was the second show of that European tour so it brought with it the second performances of Leave Out All the Rest and The little Things Give You Away, both songs having been debuted live the show before in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is also the historic show where, before playing No More Sorrow, Mike had a bra thrown in his face. These days it's much more common to see bras thrown on stage at Linkin Park shows, maybe we can get a repeat of it? You can see that incident below. In 2011 the band came back, not playing anything new, but delivering a hell of a performance. In 2017 the band finally got to play a Swedish festival, where they took the stage at that years (and currently last ever) Bråvalla Festival where they headlined along with Martin Garrix and Håkan Hellström. This show brought out the opening ’Talking to Myself’, the only remining song from The Hunting Party; ‘Wastelands’, and the other normal mainstays of the 2017 set, like the, at the time, new live version of ‘Leave Out All the Rest’, the piano version of ’Crawling’, and ‘One More Light’ with Chester performing the song down in the crowd like he usually did. For the first time since 2003, the band brought out the singer Christian Lindskog from the Swedish band Blindside to perform on ‘One Step Closer’. “Let’s show these fat Americans!” At this show the band skipped the normal thing they had been doing during ‘In the End’ on this cycle. Normally they stopped the instrumental totally for a verse or a chorus and just allowed the crowd to sing the full thing acapella, but at this show the band played the full song the whole way through. So this is the start of the the last leg of the ‘From Zero’ tour. As of right now nothing has been announced after June 30th, so it’s entirely possible that after this tour there will be no more full shows played until the next album comes out. So here’s to hoping that they make it even more special. On the Australia/New Zealand tour the band brought out some long forgotten songs, like the 2017 version of ‘Leave Out All the Rest’. This was likely because Emily was sick, but we can still hope it returns on this tour, even with Emily NOT being sick (please, no one get sick!) So, are you going to this show? What do you think the band will play? Come and discuss in our forums. Remaining shows: June 01, 2026: Hamburg, Germany June 03, 2026: Hamburg, Germany June 05, 2026: Nürburg, Germany - Rock am Ring 2026 June 07, 2026: Nuremberg, Germany - Rock im Park 2026 June 09, 2026: Vienna, Austria June 11, 2026: Munich, Germany June 12, 2026: Munich, Germany June 14, 2026: Castle Donington, UK - Download Festival 2026 June 16, 2026: Lyon, France June 19, 2026: Santiago de Compostela, Spain - O Son do Camiño 2026 June 21, 2026: Lisbon, Portugal - Rock in Rio: Lisboa 2026 June 23, 2026: Madrid, Spain June 24, 2026: Madrid, Spain June 26, 2026: Florence, Italy - Firenze Rocks 2026 June 28, 2026: Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival 2026 June 30, 2026: Zürich, Switzerland
I think there is a chance for something new on this run... But I feel the band could also secretly be more focused on studio work than live shows prep at this point
SETLIST MAY 29TH: - ACT 1 (Inception Intro A) - 01: The Emptiness Machine 02: Lying From You 03: Crawling 04: Up from the Bottom 05: Somewhere I Belong - ACT 2 (Creation Intro B) - 06: The Catalyst - Shortened (no third chorus; no breakdown) 07: BURN IT DOWN 08: Over Each Other 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", "Step Up" chorus, "Lift Off" demo verse, & "Remember the Name" mashup; with Colin & Emily 15: IGYEIH 16: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro - ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) - 17: Lost - Short Piano Only Version 18: Breaking the Habit 19: Let You Fade 20: What I've Done - ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition) - 21: Overflow 22: LOST IN THE ECHO 23: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 24: Heavy Is the Crown 25: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "A Place for My Head" verse 1; extended outro - ACT 5 - Encore (Resolution Intro A) - 26: Papercut - Extended intro 27: In the End 28: Faint - Extended outro Rotation Songs: ACT 1 Lying From You CrawlingACT 2 Over Each Other LIES GREED MISERY IGYEIHACT 3 Breaking the Habit Let You FadeACT 4 LOST IN THE ECHO For the first time since the return show on September 5th, The Emptiness Machine started off the set! Emily took Colins place on the drums for the "Remember the Name" part of the Mikes solo medley Breaking the Habit returned to the set for the first time since 2024 LOST IN THE ECHO returned to the set for the first time since 2024 Full stream: