Minutes to Midnight World Tour Minutes to Midnight World Tour Minutes to Midnight World Tour was the fourth concert tour by American rock band Linkin Park. It was launched in support of Linkin Park's third studio album, "Minutes to Midnight" (2007). "Linkin Park Underground" the official fan club of the band released a live album as a part of their annual releases named as "LP Underground 7.0". It consisted of the live performances of the shows across the 2007-Minutes to Midnight tour. The tour was announced in April 2007 after the release of the hit single "What I've Done". The tour consists of five legs.
Minutes to Midnight (song) some 12 minutes in the preceding decade. This was the closest to midnight the clock had reached since the overt testing of H-Bombs by the US and Soviet Union in 1953. This setting was surpassed only recently, after the inauguration of American president Donald Trump in January 2017, when the clock was set at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. The lyrics warn of escalation in the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union (""ICBMs, SS-20s / they lie so dormant, they got so many""), and allude to both H.G. Wells and heralded Australian racehorse Phar Lap. Minutes to