After a break of almost seven years, Linkin Park is back with a new era, a new lineup, and a new album with a 2025 tour. With their last performance together being in 2017 as a tribute to Chester Bennington, the band has a new lead singer – Emily Armstrong, and a new drummer Colin Brittain, and are all set to continue the legacy.
After Bennington’s tragic suicide, fans were left devastated as the band didn’t give any clear vision of what their future held. Now, six years and ten months later they’re finally back with a brand-new era. Here’s everything fans need to know.
Linkin Park Is Back With A New Team, Album And Tour
Linkin Park has revealed their first new studio album since One More Light, which was released in May 2017. The new album- From Zero will come out this November via Warner. The band has also released a brand-new song called “The Emptiness Machine,” and a music video for it directed by Joe Hahn.
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The band still consists of Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Joe Hahn, along with new drummer Colin Brittain, who is replacing Rob Bourdner, and co-vocalist Emily Armstrong who is replacing Chester Bennington.
Since appearing at the Hollywood Bowl in October 2017 as part of a Bennington tribute event, Linkin Park has not toured ever since. They are now all set to tour- which starts next week.
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Who Is Emily Armstrong?
Emily Armstrong’s is mostly known role for being the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dead Sara band of Los Angeles. Beginning with the band’s 2012 self-titled debut, the 38-year-old singer released three studio albums. Armstrong had also contributed backing vocals to Courtney Love’s ‘Nobody’s Daughter’ solo album before Dead Sara. During Demi Lovato’s Holy Fvck album in 2002, Armstrong and her Dead Sara bandmates co-wrote the songs “Help Me” and “Bones,” and they also collaborated with Lovato on music.
Talking about how the new lineup came along, Mike Shinoda spoke to Billboard and said, “Getting back into the group — at first it was Dave and Joe, and then Brad came in too at some point, and we were starting to do sessions with other people, some of [whom] I had written with in the year or two before that, including Colin. And then we brought Emily in, but we did sessions with a lot of different people, and as we worked, things just came into focus, naturally. Even with Emily and Colin, we didn’t say, “Hey, come in, we’re doing Linkin Park sessions.” We just said, “We’re going to write songs.”
The band’s new single is available to stream now.
