This Is Intended To Be A New Chapter Of LINKIN PARK

Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda mentioned the band’s new music with new singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain on the BBC Radio 1 New Music Present With Jack Saunders. Within the interview, Shinoda explains how he met his new bandmates and the way issues fell collectively (transcribed by Blabbermouth):

“It is insane,” he mentioned. “I imply, now we have been planning this second for a very long time. So to take you again, I met Emily in 2019, I believe. [I] simply had heard her title via some mates. We wrote a pair issues and simply form of messed round. And it was extra about assembly than it was about writing a tune. The songs have been effective, nevertheless it was extra about who is that this individual. And finally we simply began — Joe and Dave and I began — getting collectively an increasing number of typically. And the intention wasn’t to begin the band up once more or no matter. We have been simply slowly coming collectively, and finally issues simply began to fall into place with Emily and with Colin, our new drummer.”

Shinoda additionally acknowledged that this can be a new period of Linkin Park to him and that Armstrong is not making an attempt to be a clone of late singer Chester Bennington.

“The album comes out the second week of November. And I hope that when folks hear it, they actually perceive this isn’t meant to be a redo or a rewrite of Linkin Park. That is supposed to be the brand new chapter of Linkin Park. It is, like, the previous chapter was a terrific chapter and we love that chapter. And that ran its course. And now we have been confronted with the problem of, ‘Okay, when you begin from scratch with one other voice, what do you do?’ And Emily‘s voice, like when she sings the factor, man, it is like the eagerness… She’s 100% her. That is the very best half, is she’s not making an attempt to be Chester, she’s not making an attempt to be anyone else. She’s her, and that is why it really works.”

Shinoda additionally mentioned that the bond between previous and new band members continues to develop and evolve.

Yeah, it is a fixed evolution. I imply, we rehearsed extra for this than we have ever rehearsed for something in our lives. My reference level is all the time like a superb basketball staff — you aren’t getting the behind-the-back cross, the no-look cross until you simply know the place all people’s gonna be. You already know precisely the place they’re gonna be. For me, that is the metaphor, is like these reveals are us determining one another’s intuitive manner we transfer and play on stage and nonetheless making it much more easy and extra muscle reminiscence.”