The coronavirus outbreak has forced rockers Linkin Park to press pause on the band’s first new material since the death of frontman Chester Bennington.
The Crawling hitmakers went on hiatus following Bennington’s tragic suicide in 2017, but they regrouped for a memorial show in Los Angeles that October, and in 2018, co-vocalist Mike Shinoda admitted he was open to touring with his bandmates again, if they were ready.
Last year, group DJ Joe Hahn explained the musicians had started discussions about their recording future, and now bassist Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell has revealed they had actually begun working on new ideas just before the COVID-19 pandemic forced people into isolation. “For us, with the band, we’ve been kinda writing and doing