Linkin Park returns with a brand new vocalist, album and tour after Chester Bennington's demise in 2017 | EUROtoday

The American rock band Linkin Park introduced this Thursday his return with a brand new vocalist, Emily Armstrong; a brand new album for November fifteenth that can be referred to as ‘From Zero’ and a world tour that can start subsequent week in California.

This shock announcement marks a “new era” after the demise in 2017 from the band's chief, Chester Benningtonand after the opposite 4 members, pals since their youth, started getting again collectively lately, in response to a press release from Live Nation.

At these conferences, they invited different pals to their studio and “found a special affinity” with Emily Armstrong, from the group Dead Saraand with the drummer Colin Brittainwith whom they spent increasingly more hours till they concluded that each can be a part of a brand new Linkin Park, he provides.

“Before Linkin Park, our first name as a band was Xero. The title of this album refers to both this humble beginning and the path we are currently on,” the rapper mentioned within the be aware. Mike Shinoda on ‘From Zero’which interprets as “from scratch.”

Also, the primary single got here out immediately, ‘The Emptiness Machine’whose video can be launched tomorrow, and through which Armstrong's heartbreaking voice evokes that of the late Bennington and creates a brand new sound that pulls from the nu-metal legacy of the authors of ‘Hybrid Theory’ o 'Meteor'.

The tour ‘From Zero World Tour’ It begins in Los Angeles (California) on September 11 and passes by way of New York on the sixteenth, earlier than leaping to Europe (Hamburg, on the twenty second, and London, on the twenty fourth), South Korea (Seoul, on the twenty eighth) and Colombia (Bogotá, on November 11).

Among different surprises, Linkin Park have launched a live performance of the brand new album Recorded with an viewers in an unspecified location the place the concord of the brand new formation will be appreciated and the place they reinterpret legendary themes similar to ‘Somewhere I belong’, ‘Crawling’, ‘Faint’ o 'Papercut'.

Shinoda, on stage along with his guitar slung over his shoulder, introduces the members by identify and function, including, “And in the role of Chester Bennington, you are all“.

This Friday, the band will do an interview on Apple Music with the presenter Zane Lowe“a candid and in-depth conversation about Linkin Park's incredible legacy, seven-year journey toward new music and their excitement for the future,” Live Nation's assertion mentioned.