2024-09-06 08:40:02
It’s official – Linkin Park are back and are releasing a new album, ‘From Zero’, on November 15.
Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix Farrell and Joe Hahn are joined by new members Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara as co-vocalist and Colin Brittain, a songwriter/producer for G Flip, Illenium and One OK Rock, as drummer.
New single ‘The Emptiness Machine’ is available now – the band’s first new music in seven years.
Hear it below:
On this new era, Shinoda says, “Before LINKIN PARK, our first band name was Xero. This album title refers to both this humble beginning and the journey we’re currently undertaking. Sonically and emotionally, it is about past, present, and future—embracing our signature sound, but new and full of life. It was made with a deep appreciation for our new and longtime bandmates, our friends, our family, and our fans. We are proud of what LINKIN PARK has become over the years, and excited about the journey ahead.”
Have a look at the album artwork and full tracklisting below:
- From Zero (Intro)
- The Emptiness Machine
- Cut The Bridge
- Heavy Is The Crown
- Over Each Other
- Casualty
- Overflow
- Two Faced
- Stained
- IGYEIH
- Good Things Go
Plus, Linkin Park will be hitting the road later this month for a series of headline dates on the ‘From Zero World Tour’. LP Underground fan club exclusive pre-sales start September 06 with general on-sales from September 07.
Check out the full list of tour dates below:
SEPTEMBER
11 – Kia Forum – Los Angeles, CA
16 – Barclays Center – New York, NY
22 – Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany
24 – The O2 – London, UK
28 – INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea
NOVEMBER
11 – Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia
The band played a special show tonight (September 05) in Los Angeles which was broadcast via livestream on the band’s official website and was also shown on the big screens in New York’s Times Square and Shoreditch High Street Station in London. Opening with ‘The Emptiness Machine’, Shinoda greeted the crowd by simply saying “It’s good to see you again.”
Tonight’s show was the culmination of several weeks of teasing from the band as, on August 24, they posted a mysterious countdown clock of 100 hours leading up to an announcement, fuelling fan speculation that they were about to make their live return. However, as the clock ran out, it instead began counting forward, as the band reposted the link on social media alongside the phrase ‘It’s only a matter of time’.
Prior to this evening, the band’s last live appearance together was at the tribute concert to the much missed Chester Bennington, ‘Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington’, which took place at the Hollywood Bowl in October 2017 and included special guest vocalists such as Oli Sykes, Taka Moriuchi and M. Shadows.
Rumours of a reunion tour first began to circulate earlier this summer with Billboard reporting that booking agency WME had been exploring possible headline and festival dates for 2025.
Linkin Park’s popularity has continued to grow over recent years thanks to their recent greatest hits collection ‘Papercuts’ and the 20th anniversary reissues of the albums ‘Hybrid Theory’ and ‘Meteora’, the latter of which also featured the single ‘Lost’ which went on to have huge success on the US and UK rock charts.
Earlier this year, in his Rock Sound 25 Icon interview, Mike Shinoda reflected further on that audience growth and continuing legacy:
“To be in 2023 seeing brand new, teenage artists and bands show up referencing and loving Linkin Park music is such a blessing. We would have never guessed that we could be in this position. It’s crazy to think that some of them will be in this position later, they’ll grow up to be a band that somebody else references. That chain of influence and inspiration goes on. That’s a beautiful lineage. Separate from that, on the more practical or logical side of things, there’s the end of the year when everybody gets a lot of their data back, besides your Spotify Wrapped and stuff like that, more deep dive wrap ups that you get from management or your label or your publisher and so on. For a band that is technically inactive, Linkin Park has been on an upswing in the last two years. That is unbelievable. We got on one report for one DSP platform that we had gained multiple tens of millions of new listeners. Wow. That’s mind blowing. These are people that have never listened to Linkin Park and found us this year. All I can do is be grateful. There’s almost nothing else I can say about that. It’s just shocking. What do I say? Thank you.”
You can read that full interview with Mike inside his cover issue of Rock Sound magazine, available here.
