Linkin Park: Latest News

Sleep Token kicked off their European headline tour in Zurich last night (November 5) – check out details below.Before their opening show at Halle 622, they took to Instagram to announce that both III and IV wouldn’t be performing. As they detailed there, the show went ahead using pre-recorded tracks captured while they previously prepared for the massive tour.“We always endeavour to avoid cancelling a Ritual unless completely unavoidable,” they wrote.

Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda has spoken more about the band’s recent line-up changes and how they came together, including the reasons for guitarist Brad Delson’s absence from live shows. The band announced their comeback in September with a livestream event, where they revealed the addition of Emily Armstrong (formerly of Dead Sara) as their new co-vocalist. Drummer Colin Brittain joined the band too, following the departure of founding member Rob Bourdon.

COVID-19 pandemic for a special, one-off cover of Linkin Park‘s 2002 smash-hit In the End.The four-minute, 35-second montage was posted to YouTube on the RocknMob channel on June 24.The channel is known well for gathering large crowds of anonymous musicians virtually to cover infamous rock songs.“2020 brought us a lot of challenges but they couldn’t stop us from rock-n-mobbing!” the video’s description reads.Among the 250-plus headbangers, many of them hailed from Russia, as seen in the video.One even played their own saxophone rendition of the MTV Music Award-winning song, while an American guitarist clad in a chicken costume shredded away to their heart’s content.

Chris Martin, Duff McKagan, and Mike Shinoda have signed up to support a new virtual festival co-founded by the widow of tragic Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington.

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.