Linkin Park announced their return to the music industry. The American rock band is preparing a new album for November 15, which will be called From scratch and an international tour that begins next week in California. The big news, however, is the incorporation of the new singer, Emilie Armstrong.
This surprise announcement marks a “new era” following the death by suicide in 2017 of the group’s leader, Chester Benningtonand after the other four members, friends since their youth, began reuniting in recent years, according to a statement from Live Nation.
At these meetings, they invited other friends to their studio and “found a special affinity” with Emilie Armstrongfrom the band Dead Sara. The drummer will also join the new cast Colin Brittany.
“Before Linkin Park, our first name as a band was Xero. The title of this album refers to both that humble beginning and the path we are currently on,” the rapper explained in the note. Mike Shinoda about From scratchwhich translates to “from scratch.”
Additionally, the first single has just been released, “The vacuum machine”whose video will be released tomorrow. Armstrong’s heartbreaking vocals evoke the late Bennington and create a new sound that draws on the nu-metal heritage of the makers of “Hybrid theory” either “Meteor”.
Tour coming soon
The tour From the Zero World Tour begins in Los Angeles (California) on September 11 and passes through New York on the 16th before making the jump to Europe (Hamburg, day 22, and London, day 24), to South Korea (Seoul, day 28) and Colombia (Bogota, November 11).
Among other surprises, Linkin Park has released a concert of the new album recorded with an audience in an undetermined location in which we can see the harmony of the new formation and in which they reinterpret mythical songs such as “Somewhere I Belong”, “Creeping”, “Faint” or “Papercut”. Shinoda, on stage with his guitar suspended, introduces the members by name and position, and adds: “And in the role of Chester Bennington, it’s all of you”.
This Friday, the band will do an interview on Apple Music with host Zane Lowe, “a candid and in-depth conversation about Linkin Park’s incredible legacy, their seven-year journey to new music, and their excitement for the future,” according to the Live. National note.
