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Linkin Park Rock ‘Tonight Show’ Debut With New Singer Emily Armstrong With Rip Through ‘The Emptiness Machine’
Linkin Park performed their new single, 'The Emptiness Machine' on 'The Tonight Show' on Tuesday (Sept. 17) with new singer Emily Armstrong.
The song from the band’s upcoming first album in seven years, From Zero(Nov. 15), blasted off with singer/guitarist Mike Shinoda on the mic on a set that looked like an ice station on a frozen planet thanks to moodily lit plastic draping surrounding them. With new drummer Colin Brittain keeping the steady beat, Shinoda urgently sang the song’s pleading chorus, “I let you cut me open/ Just to watch me bleed/ Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be/ Don’t know why I’m holding what I won’t receive/ Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine.” Shinoda also sat down with host Jimmy Fallon to discuss the “euphoric” feeling the band had after the rebooted lineup’s debut performance at the Kia Forum in their native Los Angeles on Sept. 11, which marked the kick-off of their first tour since the death of singer Chester Bennington in 2017.
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