Introduction
The South American Tour in May 2017 is Linkin Park's first announced tour for their upcoming album, due out sometime in 2017. It's the first LP visit to South America since October 2014, when the band headlined Circuito Banco do Brasil in Belo Horizonte and Brasília, Brazil.
So far, the announced shows are for Maximus Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and São Paulo, Brazil, and a headlining show in Lima, Peru The last visits by Linkin Park to Argentina and to the city of São Paulo both came on the Living Things touring cycle in October 2012. This will be the first Linkin Park show ever in Peru, and it marks the largest South American Tour since October 2012 but the most countries played by LP, three, in South America since 2010.