LOS ANGELES — Linkin Park is back.
The influential rap-rock band announced last week that it’s reunited, seven years after the 2017 death of frontman Chester Bennington, and plans to tour and release a studio album this fall.
The group’s new singer is Emily Armstrong, previously known as a member of the Los Angeles-based rock band Dead Sara; Linkin Park also has a new drummer in Colin Brittain, who replaces the band’s Rob Bourdon. The group’s remaining members are rapper and producer Mike Shinoda, guitarist Brad Delson, DJ Joe Hahn and one-named bassist Phoenix, all of whom founded the band in Agoura Hills in 1996.
Linkin Park will release a new 11-track album, “From Zero,” on Nov. 15, its first since 2017’s “One More Light,” which came out just two months before Bennington died by suicide at his home in Palos Verdes Estates. The LP’s lead single, “The Emptiness Machine,” dropped last week.
In a statement, the four surviving founders — who called their band Xero before Bennington joined and they renamed it Linkin Park — said they’d started hanging out in recent years in an attempt to “reconnect with the creativity and camaraderie” of their earliest days. The title of “From Zero,” Shinoda said, “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.
