Having Linkin Park appear as a headliner at this past weekend’s annual ‘Hellfest‘ was certainly a bold choice and one that apparently didn’t sit right with a number of metalheads in attendance. In the below footage you can watch frontman Chester Bennington point out an audience member who missed him with an thrown empty jug, as well as various others who flipped him the bird.
Bennington himself took to Twitter to describe the somewhat hostile reaction the band faced during their set:
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
The setlist for the band’s performance ran as follows:
“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”
“Bleed It Out”
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