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Linkin Park review – monster hits perfectly reshaped for a fresh chapter
Back on the road with vocalist Emily Armstrong making their back catalogue her own, the hybrid metallers have found a new audience and a reinvigorated sense of purpose
For years, the remaining members of the band avoided questions about the future but kept the Linkin Park fire burning with anniversary celebrations for Hybrid Theory and its even-bigger follow-up Meteora. There’s been plenty of chatter online about Emily Armstrong, from her ties to Scientology and her – now apparently retracted – defence of actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson, to her ability to live up to Bennington’s imposing legend. Armstrong gets in the crowd for In the End; the band’s DJ and creative director Joe Hahn takes great joy in pointing a handheld camera in his bandmates’ faces throughout the night; and Shinoda shares inside jokes from the group’s Discord with 20,000 people.
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