Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda mentioned the band’s new music with new singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain on the BBC Radio 1 New Music Present With Jack Saunders. Within the interview, Shinoda explains how he met his new bandmates and the way issues fell collectively (transcribed by Blabbermouth):
“It is insane,” he stated. “I imply, we’ve been planning this second for a very long time. So to take you again, I met Emily in 2019, I feel. [I] simply had heard her title by way of some mates. We wrote a pair issues and simply type of messed round. And it was extra about assembly than it was about writing a tune. The songs had been effective, but it surely was extra about who is that this individual. And ultimately we simply began — Joe and Dave and I began — getting collectively increasingly usually. And the intention wasn’t to begin the band up once more or no matter. We had been simply slowly coming collectively, and ultimately issues simply began to fall into place with Emily and with Colin, our new drummer.”
Shinoda additionally said that this can be a new period of Linkin Park to him and that Armstrong is not making an attempt to be a clone of late singer Chester Bennington.
“The album comes out the second week of November. And I hope that when individuals hear it, they actually perceive this isn’t meant to be a redo or a rewrite of Linkin Park. That is supposed to be the brand new chapter of Linkin Park. It is, like, the previous chapter was an excellent chapter and we love that chapter. And that ran its course. And now we had been confronted with the problem of, ‘Okay, in the event you begin from scratch with one other voice, what do you do?’ And Emily‘s voice, like when she sings the factor, man, it is like the eagerness… She’s one hundred percent her. That is one of the best half, is she’s not making an attempt to be Chester, she’s not making an attempt to be anyone else. She’s her, and that is why it really works.”
Shinoda additionally stated that the bond between previous and new band members continues to develop and evolve.
Yeah, it is a fixed evolution. I imply, we rehearsed extra for this than we have ever rehearsed for something in our lives. My reference level is all the time like a great basketball workforce — you do not get the behind-the-back go, the no-look go except you simply know the place everyone’s gonna be. You understand precisely the place they’re gonna be. For me, that is the metaphor, is like these reveals are us determining one another’s intuitive method we transfer and play on stage and nonetheless making it much more easy and extra muscle reminiscence.”
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