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Grammy Award-winning band Linkin Park is set to rock Jakarta on Wednesday, much to the excitement of thousands of Indonesian fans.

The show will be the band’s first performance in Asia in support of its new album, “A Thousand Suns,” lead guitarist Brad Delson told the Jakarta Globe in a telephone interview.

“I’m very excited to come to Jakarta,” Delson said. “This is our first Asian tour for ‘ A Thousand Suns ,’ and we’re really excited to play the new music to our fans all over Asia.”

The band, which will perform at Bung Karno Stadium, last played in Indonesia seven years ago at Carnaval Beach in Ancol, where it entertained more than 30,000 fans who sang along to hits such as “Numb” and “Crawling” from the award-winning albums “Meteora” and “Hybrid Theory.”

Since then, the band has released two more well-received studio albums, “Minutes to Midnight” in 2007 and “A Thousand Suns” in September of last year.

Linkin Park’s musical style and catchy anthems also caught the attention of movie director Michael Bay, who used some of the band’s songs in his box-office hits “Transformers,” “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”

Dedicated fans such as Primanitya Swastiyastu, 31, and Dika Toolkit, 27, are anxiously awaiting the band’s upcoming performance here.

“I’ve been a fan since their first album,” Primanitya said. “But I had to miss their last show [in Jakarta] since I had an exam the next day.”

Dika, who was able to attend the concert in 2004, said he was looking forward to hearing songs from the band’s new album played live.

“It’s been seven years and in between they have released two albums,” he said. “I’ve got to see them, to see if they’ve improved.”

The band, Delson said, will take its tour to six of Asia’s major cities, including Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei and Bangkok. Linkin Park is also scheduled to play on Sept. 24 in Singapore’s F1 Grand Prix, where it will share the stage with Shakira, Shaggy and Boy George.

Linkin Park, which was formed in 1996, is composed of vocalists Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, guitarist Delson, drummer Rob Bourdon, bassist Dave Farrell and DJ Joe Hahn.

The following are excerpts of the interview with Delson.

Your last show in Jakarta was seven years ago. Do you have a good excuse for not playing in this part of the world sooner?

The only excuse I have is being in the studio, making music and playing in cities in other parts of the world where they are also very eager to have us. But you know, that’s probably a not very good excuse [laughs].

After the launch of the new album, have you been fully occupied with touring, or have you also been preparing new material for your next album?

We’re always writing. Definitely everybody has ideas all the time, although the focus of our energy has been on supporting the records and performing the songs in many parts of the world.

Is there any chance you’re going to give a sample of your new material at one of your concerts?

There’s always a chance, but it’s a very slim chance. Count all the songs on ‘A Thousand Suns’ — that’s a lot of new music to play on our Asia tour.

So what else can we expect from your upcoming show?

We will be playing songs from ‘Midnight,’ ‘Hybrid Theory,’ ‘Meteora,’ most likely. It’s something for all ages. We always play what is exciting for us and also for anyone who comes to multiple nights. They usually tend to get a little bit of a different experience each time. You can follow us all around Asia like we’re the Grateful Dead [laughs].

So is that your inspiration?

[The Grateful Dead] is the most famous band that made every show different, and people would follow them around. They would be the best example of improvisation, changing the show each night. We definitely love playing live and we take [it] seriously. When we’re done making records, we really put all our energy into being the best live band.

Who calls the shots on which songs to play?

We are definitely an artistic democracy. The best idea is usually the winner.

How do you come up with new music?

What’s fun about being in the band is that we’ve taken the creative path to really evolve our sound every time we go into the studio. We’ve been encouraged to do that in particular by [producer] Rick Rubin in the past two albums. That brings a sense of excitement and surprise in terms of what the music is going to sound like.

After each of us works on our music, sometimes individually, we always get together and listen to everything, giving feedback and then deciding who has to go work on something. So we’re always collaborating. It’s a very open process, where anyone can bring any kind of song idea and then we focus on whichever we’re feeling the most.

What do you do when you’re not with the band? Any ongoing individual projects?

Professionally, I like to focus on Linkin Park because I feel that even if I’m interested in a wide range of activities, I feel like I could find all those within the context of the band. I of course have time outside of the band, but most of it involves sitting on the couch and watching television [laughs]. I’ve been playing a lot of Scrabble. It’s a little presumptuous and haughty to admit, but I’ve beat the computer a dozen times. I don’t play [the video game] Angry Birds. I actually don’t play a lot of video games.

What’s your secret to performing live?

I sometimes feel like I know what I’m doing. I think what’s nice is that after you’ve played on stage a lot, like every night, then there’s a certain kind of unconscious zone that happens, when you don’t have to think about it and it just happens. I think I play the best when I don’t have to think of what I’m doing.