“This is intended to be a new chapter for LINKIN PARK”

Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda discussed the band’s new music with the new singer Emily Armstrong and a drummer Colin Britain In an interview on BBC Radio 1 New Music Show With Jack Saunders. Shinoda explains how he met his new bandmates and how it all came together (transcribed by Blabbermouth).

“It’s crazy,” he said Emily In 2019, I think. [I] I just heard his name through some friends and we kind of messed around. It was more of a songwriting thing, but it was more about who this person is after all we just started – Joe: and: Dave: and I started—getting together more and more often. And the goal wasn’t to start the band again or anything. We were just slowly getting together, and eventually everything started to fall into place Emily and back Colinour new drummer.”

Shinoda also declared that this is a new era Linkin Park him and it Armstrong not trying to be a clone of the late singer Chester Bennington.

“The album will be out in the second week of November. And I hope that when people listen to it, they really understand that it’s not meant to be remade or rewritten. Linkin Park. This is meant to be a new chapter Linkin Park. It was like an old chapter, and we love that chapter. And it ran its course. And now we were facing a challenge. “Okay, if you start over with a different voice, what do you do?” Ms Emily‘s voice, like when he sings that thing, man, it’s like passion… He’s 100 percent him. That’s the best part, isn’t he trying to be? Chesterhe’s not trying to be someone else. He’s him, and that’s why it works.”

Shinoda He also said that the bond between the old and new members of the group continues to grow and develop.

Yeah, it’s a constant evolution. I mean, we’ve tried more for that than we’ve ever tried for anything in our lives. My point of reference is always like a good basketball team. you don’t get the back pass, the no look pass, until you know where everybody’s going to be. That’s the metaphor for me, it’s like these shows we’re figuring out each other’s intuitive way moving and acting on stage and making it even easier and more muscle memory.”