Linkin Park are back on tour with new co-singer Emily Armstrong, and band co-founder Mike Shinoda is opening up about his return to the stage with the group seven years after frontman Chester Bennington's untimely death.
In an upcoming interview with The Zach Sang Show Along with Armstrong, Shinoda shared that Linkin Park's return to swing was “amazing,” despite his initial nervousness. “Part of it is because the band is on an indefinite hiatus or whatever it was – we didn't put names on it, it was just 'We're not doing it anymore.' From standing on stage and doing it, there were all these weird little moments that were so surreal,” he explained. “To walk into a room and do that was so cool.”
He added that there were moments that were “stressful,” because he wanted to “take enough time to get it right,” continuing that with Armstrong's vocal talent, “We were changing keys on songs we'd been playing for 20 years. I had to relearn 'Breaking the Habit' basically from scratch.”
Shinoda concluded by noting, “Linkin Park is part of my DNA. Everyone has a basic identity diagram, like, this is me. If you were to sit down with a piece of paper and write down the things that make you who you are, that's a crazy exercise when you think about it. It's things you love to do, your family, your kids, your husband, whatever. The things that make you and your beliefs, right there in the middle of it is Linkin Park to me. There are a lot of other things, but getting that one out was painful. To put it again, there is nothing like it. There will never be anything like it.”
Ahead of their 2025 tour, Linkin Park are set to release their eighth studio album, From scratchon November 15 via Warner Records. Watch the exclusive excerpt from the interview via Bulletin board below, and watch his full episode The Zach Sang Show on Friday (November 15).
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