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Linkin Park will make a grand return to Australia next year, with the group plotting their first dates Down Under in 13 years.<\/p>\n
The newly-announced run of dates will be Linkin Park\u2019s first of 2026, with the group performing at arenas in the capital cities of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney from early to mid March.<\/p>\n
More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n These shows will be the band\u2019s first in Australia since their visit as part of the 2013 Soundwave Festival.<\/p>\n Having toured the country in support of every album up to 2012\u2019s Living Things<\/em>, the band did not include Australia on the itinerary for 2014\u2019s The Hunting Party <\/em>tour, and no Aussie dates were scheduled for their One More Light<\/em> world tour at the time of vocalist Chester Bennington\u2019s passing<\/a> in July 2017.<\/p>\n The 2026 Australian dates will be taking place as part of Linkin Park\u2019s ongoing From Zero World Tour. Launching in September 2024, the tour is the band\u2019s first with new vocalist Emily Armstrong<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m on cloud nine, but then it hits you that there\u2019s a lot of work to be done,\u201d Armstrong told Billboard<\/em><\/a> following the announcement of her joining the group. \u201cAnd going into these [older] songs, by a singular voice that\u2019s beloved by so many people \u2014 it\u2019s like, \u2018How do I be myself in this, but also carry on the emotion and what he brought in this band?’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s Chester\u2019s voice, and it\u2019s mine, but I want it to still feel the way I feel when I listen to the song, because that\u2019s what the fans love,\u201d she added. \u201cThere is a passion to it that I\u2019m hoping I can fill.\u201d<\/p>\n Linkin Park \u2013 From Zero World Tour, 2026 Australian Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n March 3 \u2013 Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Linkin Park will make a grand return to Australia next year, with the group plotting their first dates Down Under in 13 years. The newly-announced run of dates will be Linkin Park\u2019s first of 2026, with the group performing at arenas in the capital cities of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney from early to mid March. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1953420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21823,342266,29110,306402],"class_list":["post-1953419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-australia","tag-australian-dates","tag-billboard","tag-linkin-park"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Linkin-Park-Plot-Australian-Return-With-2026-Tour-Dates.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
March 8 \u2013 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
March 14 \u2013 Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW<\/p>\n