September 24, 2025: Seattle, WA: From Zero World Tour

Tonight, Linkin Park takes the stage at Climate Pledge Arena, an indoor arena venue in Seattle, WA, with Brooklyn's rap villain JPEGMAFIA as opening act. This is the last date on the schedule for this tour leg, marking the end of the From Zero World Tour's North American chapter.

Climate Pledge Arena has gone by a few names throughout the years. It was originally known as Washington State Pavilion, and served as a venue for the 1962 World's Fair, which was the purpose for which it was originally commissioned. Today, it is billed as "the most progressive, responsible, and sustainable arena in the world", hence the name, and has a capacity of about 17,200 for music events.

There have been nine tour stops in Seattle throughout Linkin Park's history prior to tonight's show. The band first performed there in late 2000 while touring as a support on act on Kottonmouth Kings' Ridin' High Tour, performing at a venue called Graceland (nowadays known as El Corazón) on October 24. Some say that this was Phoenix's first show back with Linkin Park after fulfilling his touring obligations as a member of The Snax, though accounts on this seem to vary. What we can say is that it fell on the release of the band's debut album Hybrid Theory - a significant day, looking back.

According to a Kerrang! cover story in 2008 (posted in full by its author, British journalist Tom Bryant), Linkin Park - Phoenix included - headed straight to a music store when they first arrived in Washington the night before the show, waiting for it to open so they could purchase their copies of Hybrid Theory:

In 2022, the band's merch director from that time, Joel "Bull" Hendricks, posted an old photograph showing himself and Chester Bennington at Linkin Park's merch stand at Graceland.

Per an image of the setlist, we know that Linkin Park was performing most of the songs from their album at this point, with "Crawling" and "Pushing Me Away" being the exceptions because of their rhythm guitar parts.

This soon changed: Linkin Park actually performed "Crawling" for the very first time during their second performance in Seattle, on January 26, 2001, at a venue called Showbox Theatre, which has since become known as simply The Showbox. This was a performance for the Seattle alternative station 107.7 The End, specifically their Endsession segment. The band performed five songs from Hybrid Theory, including its lead single "One Step Closer". In late 2013, the official Endsessions website uploaded the audio recording of this whole set, which Linkin Park Live Archive later re-uploaded to YouTube.

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This radio appearance preceded the very first show on Linkin Park's Street Soldiers Tour, their first run as a headline act, on the same day at the same venue. During this show, "Pushing Me Away" and Hybrid Theory B-side "High Voltage" were both performed live for the first time. The setlist actually covered every song from the band's debut album except for "Cure for the Itch, which was largely not performed throughout 2001. The band also began using short atmospheric interludes to break up the set, including one which featured dialogue from the 1993 film Falling Down.

Towards the end of 2001, Linkin Park was back in the greater Seattle area while on the 2001 Family Values Tour, which made its last stop in Tacoma, WA. The band performed at Tacoma Dome, an arena venue, on November 17. A bootleg audio recording of the full set surfaced in the early 2010s, and, at the 17:48 mark, between "Points of Authority" and "Step Up", Mike Shinoda can be heard mentioning that his fellow band member Brad Delson was performing this show with an injury.

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The setlist for this festival show went through nearly every Hybrid Theory song - leaving out "Forgotten" and "Cure for the Itch" - and also included the Hybrid Theory EP cut "Step Up" mid-set. Limp Bizkit turntablist DJ Lethal joined the band on-stage to deliver a turntable solo over an extended outro. There was also a very short cover of the Guns N' Roses classic "Sweet Child o' Mine" near the end, something which the band did throughout their 2001 shows, before the closing song "One Step Closer", where Staind frontman Aaron Lewis came out to help perform. This performance of "One Step Closer" made it into the Family Values Tour 2001 compilation which was released in mid-2002.

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Linkin Park was back in Seattle once more before 2001 was over, performing at Paramount Theatre on December 6. This show was for a Christmas event called Deck the Hall Ball which was put on annually at the time by 107.7 The End. This show used the exact same setlist as the Tacoma stop which closed out the Family Values Tour, with Aaron Lewis once again joining the band for "One Step Closer". An audio recording of "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "[B}One Step Closer[/B]", the set's final two songs, surfaced in the early 2010s:

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In late 2003, Linkin Park was on the bill for that year's edition of Metallica's Summer Sanitarium Tour, a stadium run with Limp Bizkit, Deftones and Mudvayne also on the line-up. Towards the end of the itinerary was a stop in Seattle, taking Linkin Park to Seahawk Stadium (now known as Lumen Field) on August 7. This date also immediately followed the Houston and Irving stops, two Summer Sanitarium dates in Texas which were filmed for Live in Texas, Linkin Park's first live DVD, which was later released in November 2003. The band had a pretty static setlist throughout this tour, so this Seattle show saw the exact setlist which Live in Texas documents. A bootleg recording of this show emerged in 2014, posted by the taper himself on Linkin Park Live:

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In December 2003, Linkin Park was once again on the bill for 107.7's Deck the Hall Ball, this time at Moore Theatre on December 11. This date was among a handful of Christmas events the band played throughout the first half of December. A newspaper article from that time explains that the Linkin Park left time in their schedule to arrive in Seattle days ahead of the show.

The band shuffled things around for this setlist, placing "With You" as the opening song (playing an arrangement with elements from its Reanimation counterpart as they had been doing through all of 2003) and closing the main set with "In the End". The set also included Meteora highlight "Breaking the Habit", a song which was debuted live the month prior, and "It's Goin' Down", a song which did not appear on setlists throughout the 2003 tour legs. The aforementioned newspaper piece also mentions that the band brought up a member of the audience to play Brad Delson's guitar part on "Faint".

Linkin Park's first tour of 2004 was the North American leg of the Meteora World Tour, which ran from mid-January through to mid-March. P.O.D., Hoobastank and Story of the Year were brought along as support acts. At about the midpoint of the tour on February 13, the band got to return to Tacoma, WA and play at Tacoma Dome again, this time as a headline act.

For this tour, the band brought a slightly longer setlist than they had been able to previously, with various cuts from Hybrid Theory and Meteora, as well as "It's Goin' Down", the Reanimation track "P5hng Me A*wy" and a full-band version of "My December". For the closing song, "One Step Closer", the lead vocalists from the other bands - Sonny Sandoval from P.O.D., Doug Robb from Hoobastank and Dan Marsala from Story of the Year - all joined Linkin Park on-stage.

In the back half of 2007, Linkin Park embarked on the 2007 edition of Projekt Revolution, essentially the very first North American headline shows of the Minutes to Midnight album cycle. They kicked off the festival tour with a show at White River Amphitheatre in the city of Auburn, WA on July 25.

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At this point, the band had just begun to rotate between several setlists night-to-night. Auburn landed Set C, the setlist perhaps most similar to what Linkin Park had played during the earlier 2007 tour legs. This being the first date of Linkin Park's first tour leg after releasing Minutes to Midnight, the Projekt Revolution show in Auburn saw a couple of live debuts: the introductory piece "Wake" and U2-indebted "Shadow of the Day" were played for the first time. The set also included some staples from previous 2007 tour legs such as the extended intro for "Points of Authority" and the the piano-based version of "Pushing Me Away".

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After that, Linkin Park's next time back in the Seattle area was in August 2012, when they co-headlined the 2012 Honda Civic Tour with Incubus. This was the first North American run after the release of LP's fifth studio album LIVING THINGS. Towards the end of the tour, on September 5, the band once again came back to Tacoma and performed at Tacoma Dome.

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The setlist for this show naturally included some cuts from their newest album, like "VICTIMIZED" (with an arrangement that incorporated elements from "QWERTY"), "LOST IN THE ECHO", "IN MY REMAINS", and, of course, the lead single "BURN IT DOWN". A verse from "UNTIL IT BREAKS" was also performed during an extended intro for "Waiting for the End". Along with new songs, the band also made arrangement changes to some older songs for the LIVING THINGS tour cycle:

• "Somewhere I Belong" was played with a new extended intro;
• "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day" and "Iridescent" were combined into a "ballad medley";
• "Numb" was closed out with the chorus from "Numb / Encore";
• the extended bridge in "Bleed It Out" now included a partial cover of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage".

Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger also came out to play a guitar solo during the back half of "Bleed It Out", after the "Sabotage" section.

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Linkin Park returns to Seattle, WA tonight, which will be another notable date in their touring history: the final show of the the From Zero World Tour's massive North American run. This tour leg, which kicked off earlier this year at the very end of July, has meant a packed schedule for the band, playing 26 shows in the space of 2 months. Just over a year ago, it didn't look to us like Linkin Park would ever go on tour ever again.

The most recent show, in the Canadian city of Vancouver, BC on September 21, featured a setlist with a few small differences to previous ones. "Lying From You" and "Crawling" made their return to the opening segment of the show after "Somewhere I Belong. "Up From the Bottom" was moved more towards the middle, after played much earlier in the set during several recent shows. "Unshatter", a song which was only recently debuted live, was not played at this show for the second time, having also not been performed at the Sacramento show.

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Other highlights: Shinoda played a melody from the Metallica song "One" during the extended "Overflow" intro, and got a little bit carried away, it seems:

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Phoenix pulled off the "In the End" intro without a hitch:

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And there was also some barking:

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After tonight's Seattle show, with the end of this U.S. run, Linkin Park's next scheduled show will be in Bogotá, Colombia, a city they have only performed in once before, just last year. This show will kick off a South American leg which will close out 2025 for the band.

What do you think Linkin Park is going to come out with for the final show of this U.S. tour leg? Let us know!

 

That's indeed a nice view you got! I love that they still do "From Zero (Intro)"

 

SETLIST:

- ACT 1 (Inception Intro A) -
01: Somewhere I Belong
02: Lying From You
03: Stained
04: Crawling
05: The Emptiness Machine - with From Zero (Intro)

- ACT 2 (Creation Intro A) -
06: The Catalyst - Shortened (no third chorus; no breakdown)
07: BURN IT DOWN
08: Up From the Bottom
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", "Nobody's Listening" verse 1, & "Remember the Name" mashup; with Colin
15: Casualty
16: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro

- ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) -
17: Lost - Hybrid version
18: Over Each Other
19: What I've Done

- ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition) -
20: Overflow
21: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro
22: A Place for My Head
23: Heavy Is the Crown
24: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "There They Go" verse 1; extended outro

- ACT 5 - Encore (Resolution Intro A) -
25: Papercut - Extended intro
26: In the End
27: Faint - Extended outro

 

Never stopped him from doing "Bloc Party" or "Dolla" over the POA intro in the past

 

No, you're actually right, I didn't take the time to consider that. 2007 was a very different time compared to now