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Inside Linkin Park’s Secret Comeback
Linkin Park discusses new singer Emily Armstrong, tour dates, new album 'From Zero' and the band's next chapter in a digital cover story interview.
“It’s kind of an awkward yell.” He leans back on a couch in the lounge of Los Angeles’ EastWest Studios, where Linkin Park recorded part of the new album that track would ultimately appear on; bassist Dave Farrell is sitting next to him, and recalls commanding Shinoda to “push more” after hearing him wail in the booth. Following a tribute concert featuring dozens of special-guest vocalists that October, Linkin Park’s members went their separate ways: Shinoda released the contemplative solo album Post Traumatic in 2018, then toured the world to commune with grieving fans, while Delson, Farrell, Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon (who isn’t returning for this new era) largely stopped making music. There is plenty of historical precedent for mega-selling rock acts reinventing themselves following the death of an iconic frontman: Think Queen with Adam Lambert, Alice in Chains with William DuVall or Sublime with Bradley Nowell’s son, Jakob.
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