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From Zero: A Conversation with Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Kevin

Out of nowhere a random 65 minute podcast with Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong has dropped. The conversation features Mike and Emily, recorded about "a few weeks" before the big September 5th reveal announcing Linkin Parks comeback. Topics include how they first started working together, how Emily was asked to officially become a member, the recording and writing of From Zero and plenty of other exciting topics.

You can listen to the episode via this link.

What do you think of the episode? Come and discuss in our forums.

Linkin Park to headline Sick New World 2025

Posted on October 15, 2024 by minuteforce

Linkin Park is right back at it with the festival headline slots - the band has just been announced as part of the line-up for Sick New World, an event that will be happening on April 12, 2025 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. This is the very first festival slot Linkin Park has been confirmed for since emerging from hiatus last month.

Sick New World is a relatively new festival focusing on rock and industrial acts. Previous editions have played host to marquee names including Deftones, Swans and Sleep Token. This year's line-up is maintaining that energy as Linkin Park is joined at the top of bill by iconic bands like Metallica, Evanescence and Queens of the Stone Age.

The ticket presale for the festival begins on Friday, October 18 at 10 AM PT. Further details about the event are available on the website sicknewworldfest.com.

Source: Sick New World on Twitter

Linkin Park interviewed by Kompas TV

Posted on October 13, 2024 by minuteforce

During Linkin Park's recent tour stop in Korea, the band took some time to sit down for an interview with Kompas TV, an Indonesian broadcaster also known as The Compass, which has now released the interview on YouTube.

Quite notably, this is technically the first full-band Linkin Park interview since their chat with Zane Lowe in early September. Phoenix, Emily Armstrong, Joe Hahn and Colin Brittain are seen hanging out together with a network host, while Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson are both beamed in remotely from other locations. Throughout the interview, Kompas TV reporter Malaikha Kridaman (also appearing remotely) gets the band to speak on various topics, with Armstrong reflecting on personal experience being in the band so far, and Shinoda commenting on the challenge of keeping Linkin Park's tightly-planned return a secret.

Also of particular note is the band members giving us some brief and measured descriptions of the upcoming album From Zero, due November 15. Shinoda mentions that From Zero sounds like "Linkin Park in general" as opposed to pointing to any one of the many dimensions the band has shown throughout their varied discography so far. He also says that the album is "very energetic", something no-one should be surprised about given the singles so far, but that it has even more variety to offer than those singles have revealed. Adding to this, Phoenix highlights the track "Overflow" as "a different type of song" amongst the others on the album, and calls it one of his favourites.

You can watch the whole Kompas TV interview here.

Source: Kompas TV on YouTube via @Qwerty19

LPTV FROM ZERO: World Tour 2024, Part 2 [Episode 5]

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Kevin

We now have the second episode of LPTV documenting the From Zero world tour. This time we get to see some backstage action and on-stage footage from their shows in Hamburg, London and Seoul. Make sure to check out the episode below.

What do you think of this LPTV episode? What do you think will happen in the next one? Come and discuss in our f orums.

Source: Linkin Park YouTube via @РΛТ

"Out Of Ashes" Deluxe Edition coming to digital on October 11

Posted on October 9, 2024 by minuteforce

Dead By Sunrise's 2009 album Out Of Ashes was given a special vinyl release earlier this year for Record Store Day, which featured new bonus content including a recording of a 2009 live acoustic set, along with the studio B-side "Morning After". This deluxe edition, complete with those same bonus tracks, is now coming to digital music platforms on October 11 to mark the album's 15th anniversary, giving many fans the opportunity to hear "Morning After" plus stripped-down live versions of songs like "Walking in Circles" and "In the Darkness".

Tracklist:

Fire
Crawl Back In
Too Late
Inside of Me
Let Down
Give Me Your Name
My Suffering
Condemned
Into You
End of the World
Walking in Circles
In the Darkness
Morning After
Crawl Back In - Live in Las Vegas
Walking in Circles - Live in Las Vegas
In the Darkness - Live in Las Vegas
Let Down - Live in Las Vegas
Morning After - Live in Las Vegas

Dead By Sunrise was, of course, the brainchild of Linkin Park member Chester Bennington, who wanted an outlet for song ideas which he didn't feel were a good fit for Linkin Park to work on. He recruited longtime friends Ryan Shuck, Amir Derakh, Brandon Belsky, Elias Andra and Anthony "Fu" Valcic (all current or former members of the band Julien-K) to help develop these songs in the studio.

After working on the project on-and-off for a few years (amidst label troubles and an entire Linkin Park album/touring cycle, among other things), Dead By Sunrise eventually released the full-length album Out Of Ashes in October 2009. With his collaborators, Bennington drew from various rock and pop influences to create songs sonically and tonally distinct to what he had helped shape in Linkin Park (even with the band's major swerve on 2007's Minutes to Midnight), not to mention lyrical concepts that were worlds apart from the broad angst Linkin Park had been known for.

Leading up to the Out Of Ashes release was a slate of live performances which included late night talk shows, surprise appearances during Linkin Park's sets, and the brief acoustic performance in Las Vegas which is included in this latest re-release.

The deluxe edition of Out Of Ashes will be available to listen to on Spotify and other digital music platforms on October 11.

Source: Spotify

Linkin Park Posts "Heavy Is the Crown" Live From London

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Kevin

Linkin Park has just posted a live recording of their new single "Heavy Is the Crown" from their concert in London on September 24th to their YouTube channel. You can check out the video below.

Hopefully this is the first of many official recordings from the bands From Zero world tour that we will get to see.

What do you think of the video? Will we get more recordings from the tour? Come and discuss in our forums.

Linkin Park Announces Second Brazil Date To Their From Zero World Tour

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Kevin

Brazil managed to sell out a 40,000+ stadium in 20 minutes, causing protests outside the stadium in São Paulo, so now Linkin Park has added a second date in the country, making Brazil the only other country to get a second date on the From Zero world tour. The second show takes place on November 16, the day after the first show, and the release date of From Zero, on November 15.

Are you going to this second show? Are you going to the first show? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park Twitter

Current Tour Schedule:
November 03 - Paris, France
November 08 - Dallas, Texas
November 11 - Bogota, Colombia
November 15 - São Paulo, Brazil
November 16 - São Paulo, Brazil

September 28, 2024 - Seoul, South Korea: From Zero World Tour

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Kevin

2011. That was the last time that South Korea got a Linkin Park show. Twice before that, the band has rocked out in the city of Seoul. In 2003, the band ended their Australian/Asian tour in the city, with a show that was finally officially released on DVD on the Meteora | 20 Anniversary box set. Official recordings are something the Korean fans can be glad that all their Linkin Park shows have. In 2007 the band once again ended a tour in the country, this time their ten date Asian tour, and the official recording here comes from the official DSP program, available to listen to here. In 2011 the band didn't end a tour in the country, it was actually the second date on their 2011 Asian tour. There is a great video filmed from the crowd with the officially recorded audio edited in, and you can watch that here.

While Linkin Park may not have visited the country since 2011, Mike Shinoda made sure to stop by pretty early on his Post Traumatic tour in 2018, it was actually just the third date with touring members Matt Harris and Dan Mayo added to the lineup. The show was a festival so Mike had to play a shorter set than he would normally play on the tour, but he made sure to keep some favourites in the set like CASTLE OF GLASS, ROADS UNTRAVELED, Crossing A Line and of course the piano version of In The End.

So, that London show, huh? The band was clearly having fun at this show, being more interactive with the crowd than we've seen before on this tour. Joking around, catching drum sticks, playing with instruments, this was a really good show for the band. Setlist B got played, with Mike even calling it out on stage and giving a shoutout to our friends over at LPLive (but, like ... we're here too, Mike. We also care) Setlist B means that the lyrics being sung over the Inception intros is Iridescent, and that the LOST IN THE ECHO/A Place For My Head rotation spot gets another song added to the rotation. With Heavy Is the Crown being added as the second to last song of the set, Keys to the Kingdom now competes with the other two songs for attention.

Ok, now we know what Set B means. Thank you for the demonstration, Emily.

I also want to highlight the song My December here, and the performance of it that the band gave. As you can see earlier in this post, I've included the 2003 live version of the song. Below is the 2024 live version from the London show. This song that the band wrote in 2000 after the release of Hybrid Theory, recorded specifically for Kevin & Bean's album The Real Slim Santa, has had so many different versions performed through the years, and maybe that's something we'll talk in the future.

Wiktionary
polymath (plural polymaths)

A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

Synonyms: polyhistor, Renaissance man
Coordinate terms: automath, monomath, opsimath

This was supposed to be the second the last show of the tour, with it ending in Bogota, Colombia on November 11th. But Linkin Park decided that I need to write some more of these posts, so they announced three more shows for November. Europe, the United States and South America get one more show each, with the tour now ending on the date of release for the bands new album From Zero, on November 15th in São Paulo, Brazil.

With the advancement of technology, making it easier to livestream than ever before, fans at home were able to watch the Hamburg show on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, getting to experience the show along with the fans attending the show. While we're not gonna ask our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or you're streaming it, let us know so we can watch along with you.

Are you going to this show? Have you attended any shows on this tour? Come and discuss in our forums.

Shows left:
September 28 - Seoul, South Korea
November 03 - Paris, France
November 08 - Dallas, Texas
November 11 - Bogota, Colombia
November 15 - São Paulo, Brazil

Setlist:
1) Somewhere I Belong
2) Crawling
3) Lying From You
4) Points of Authority
5) New Divide
6) The Emptiness Machine
7) The Catalyst
8) Burn It Down
9) Waiting For The End
10) Castle of Glass
11) Joe Solo
12) When They Come For Me / Remember The Name
13) A Place for My Head
14) Given Up
15) One Step Closer
16) Lost
17) Breaking the Habit
18) What I've Done
19) Leave Out All The Rest
20) My December
21) Friendly Fire
22) Numb
23) In The End
24) Faint
25) Papercut
26) Heavy Is the Crown
27) Bleed It Out (Reading My Eyes // Bridge)

LPTV FROM ZERO: World Tour 2024, Part 1 [Episode 4]

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Kevin

We now have the first episode of LPTV documenting the From Zero world tour. We get to see some nice shots of the band performing, the band after their show in Los Angeles and even get a clip talking with superfan Sal before the show in New York. Make sure to check out the episode below.

What do you think of this LPTV episode? What do you think will happen in the next one? Come and discuss in our forums.

Source: Linkin Park YouTube

Mike Shinoda interview on Radio 1's New Music Show

Posted on September 26, 2024 by minuteforce

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda recently called into BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders a day ahead of the band's September 24 show in London earlier this week. You can listen to the full interview segment here, where it will remain available to listen to for about a year time of writing.

In the fairly brisk 10-minute interview, Shinoda speaks with endlessly-energetic show host Jack Saunders about reconnecting with the Linkin Park fanbase through the band's new music releases and touring. He reflects on how Linkin Park's songs and live performances have consistently promoted catharsis and a sense of community for fans, and says he still considers this "part of the band's core DNA".

Later on in the interview, Shinoda speaks about seeing the new Linkin Park album From Zero slowly come into focus while aimlessly creating music with his bandmates, and the challenge of moving forward with the band and making a public return. He lastly also touches on about bringing newer band members Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain into the Linkin Park fold, and the "constant evolution" of the chemistry within the band.

Again, the whole interview is available to listen to on BBC Sounds for a limited time.

Source: BBC Sounds via @Casualty