Linkin Park was one of the three headliners for Hellfest 2017, alongside super heavy acts such as Deep Purple and Aerosmith, though all the metal heads who stuck around for Linkin Park's set really, truly hated that they played stuff from the new album.
According to Twitter and YouTube footage, one fan threw a jug at frontman Chester Bennington while he was singing, while a few others gave him the finger. Here is some video:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICe_3lLIOmQ[/youtube]
Obviously there's been a very public spat between Bennington and fans over the new album's sound, but we'd also like to take this time to say that no matter how much you dislike a band's new album, please don't assault the frontman.
Hell fest was fun. Had a blast watching people mosh to In the End and then flip me off when we played Heavy. I blew them kisses?
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
After I blew kisses to the guys flipping me off. They smiled and gave me heart hands back.
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
I welcomed the huge crowd of condemned souls to HELLFEST in my metal voice then we played Invisible. The look of shock on people's faces??
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
All kidding aside…. the crowd was great and handled our set pretty well. Our French fans are awesome.
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
Does anyone else find it funny that the same people calling us sellouts are suggesting that we change our set to conform to HELLFEST ?
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
Here's the band's setlist from HELLFEST:
“Talking To Myself”
“Burn It Down”
“The Catalyst”
“Wastelands”
“One Step Closer”
“Castle Of Glass”
“Good Goodbye”
“Lost In The Echo”
“New Divide”
“Invisible”
“Waiting For The End”
“Breaking The Habit”
“One More Light”
“Crawling”
“Leave Out All The Rest”
“From The Inside”
“What I’ve Done”
“In The End”
“Faint”
“Numb”
“Heavy”
“Papercut”
