Linkin Park opened their Hamburg concerts at the Volksparkstadion with Hamburg love and German skills. All songs in the setlist at a glance.
Linkin Park plays two nights in the Hanseatic city. The band kicked off on June 1st at the Volksparkstadion. As part of their “From Zero World Tour” there will be a second appearance in Hamburg on June 3rd, before Linkin Park will also perform twice at the Allianzarena in Munich on June 11th and 12th. In between, the festival stages of Rock am Ring and Rock im Park are still waiting for the Americans.
The sold-out show started with a humorous intro on tape: “I’d like a hamburger.” With this, Linkin Park pays homage to their Hamburg fans before they joined the show. The band had already proven at previous concerts that they had a sense of humor with funny intros. Whether with Peter Wackel’s “We just want to celebrate” in Frankfurt 2025 or now “I’d like a Hamburger” in Hamburg: Linkin Park don’t take themselves too seriously. A special surprise: Mike Shinoda had prepared an acceptance speech for the audience – and delivered it in German.
Photos and videos from the Volksparkstadion can already be found online.
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After the intro, the main show starts: As usual, the setlist is divided into four acts, supplemented by an intro from the tape and an extensive encore of three songs. Linkin Park classics like “The Emptiness Machine” mix with new songs like “Up from the Bottom”. “Lying From You” opened the set for the first time in Hamburg. The full setlist for June 1st:
Intro from the tape:
Piranha (The Prodigy)
I’d Like a Hamburger (Parry Gripp)
Act 1:
Tape: Inception Intro B
1. Lying From You
2. Crawling
3. Up From the Bottom
4. New Divide
5. The Emptiness Machine
Act 2:
Tape: Creation Intro B
6. The Catalyst
7. Burn It Down
8. Stained
9. Where’d You Go
10. Waiting for the End
11. A Place for My Head
12. Two Faced
13. Joe Hahn Solo
14. When They Come for Me / Remember the Name
15. Unshatter
16. One Step Closer
Act 3:
Tape: Break/Collapse
17. Lost
18. Breaking the Habit
19. Good Things Go
20. What I’ve Done
Act 4:
Tape: Kintsugi
21. Overflow
22. Over Each Other
23. Numb
24. In the End
25. Faint
Encore:
Tape: Resolution Intro B
26. Papercut
27. Heavy Is the Crown
28. Bleed It Out
Tape: Pass the Mic (Beastie Boys)