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Linkin Park has a new singer and a new album on the way
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Linkin Park has a new singer and a new album on the way

Linkin Park is back.

The influential rap-rock band announced Thursday that they have reunited, seven years after the death of frontman Chester Bennington in 2017. They plan to tour this fall and release a studio album.

The group’s new lead singer is Emily Armstrong, formerly of the Los Angeles rock band Dead Sara; Linkin Park also has a new drummer in Colin Brittain, who replaces the band’s Rob Bourdon. The group’s remaining members are rapper and producer Mike Shinoda, guitarist Brad Delson, DJ Joe Hahn, and bassist Phoenix, all of whom formed the band in 1996 in Agoura Hills.

Linkin Park will release a new 11-song album, “From Zero,” on Nov. 15, their first since 2017’s “One More Light,” which dropped just two months before Bennington committed suicide in his Palos Verdes Estates home. The LP’s lead single, “The Emptiness Machine,” was released Thursday.

In a statement, the four remaining founding members — who called their band Xero before Bennington joined and renamed them Linkin Park — said they had been reuniting in recent years in an effort to “reconnect with the creativity and camaraderie” of their earliest days. The title of “From Zero,” Shinoda said, “refers to both these humble beginnings and the journey we’re currently on. Sonically and emotionally, it’s about past, present, and future — embracing our signature sound, but new and alive. It was created with a deep appreciation for our new and old bandmates, our friends, our family, and our fans.”

“We’re proud of what Linkin Park has become over the years,” he added, “and we’re excited about the journey ahead.”

Next week, Linkin Park kicks off a six-concert series in cities around the world, with a show at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Sept. 11. Other stops on the band’s itinerary include New York City, Hamburg, Germany, London, Seoul and Bogota, Colombia.

In 2017, Linkin Park paid tribute to Bennington with a show at the Hollywood Bowl, performing with members of Blink-182, No Doubt, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me the Horizon, and System of a Down, among others.