[1][2] It was launched in support of Linkin Park's sixth studio album, The Hunting Party (2014).

Its first leg under the name European Tour began on May 30, 2014, in Lisboa, Portugal, and ended on June 14 in Castle Donington, England, where they played Hybrid Theory in its entirety.

[3][4][5][6] The band continued the world tour on May 9, performing at the first edition of Rock In Rio in America.

It was Linkin Park's last full album tour to feature Chester Bennington as vocalist before his death in 2017.

And later the tour took a break after the Download Festival where the band played Hybrid Theory as a whole album together for the first time.

Of Mice & Men were included as special guest for this leg and also toured with Linkin Park in North America.

The trailer revealed that the tour would feature guest artists like Of Mice & Men and Rise Against'.

Later on another additional leg was introduced as North American Summer Tour in support of the album.

The leg is scheduled to take place after the Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington's Spring U.S. Tour and seven headlining concerts by the band like Rock in Rio USA where the band will play with artists like Deftones, John Legend, No Doubt, Metallica, and Taylor Swift, Rock on the Range, Rocklahoma, Amnesia Rockfest, Loudwire Music Festival and Summerfest.

A minute-long trailer for the tour premiered in November 2014, featuring a British narrator and assorted live scenes, paired with some of the bands' songs, including "Bleed It Out", "In The End", "Guilty All the Same", "Final Masquerade", "What I've Done" and "Rebellion" by Linkin Park and "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", "Tragedy + Time" by Rise Against.

[citation needed] These set lists are representative of the shows in Parque de Bela Vista, Lisbon, Portugal, at Rock in Rio 2014, in Frankfurt, Germany, at Festhalle, in Rybnik, Poland, at Rybnik Stadium, and in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the first edition of Rock in Rio USA.