New singer is Emily Armstrong from Dead Sara. New song is alright, but she sounded pretty good on most of the old songs. Numb, One Step Closer and What I've Done all hit the feels hard.



For full livestream concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1nlWOciL0

Obviously no one can ever replace Chester, but I think they did as well as they could have. The guy from Sum 41 being rumored never felt right. And Chester himself sang for Stone Temple Pilos for a little while, so he obviously did not have a problem with this sort of thing. And if Chester would be ok with it, why shouldn't everyone?

I think they should've just given them a new name, Linkin Park with a girl is not Linkin Park.

Emptiness Machine is pretty solid

I was initially hoping they'd go by Hybrid Theory. Would indicate they are starting from the beginning and every fan would know whats up.

But the reality is that the name is what matters. The name is going to sell out arenas and festivals. Without the name there really isn't any point in getting back together at all.

I know the pop punk bands are selling concerts, but the OG Linkin Park feels right as the classic rock inheritor. I loved the if it was made in 2007 meme.

Poor girl got a speenrun of being famous. Conservatives didn't even get a chance to be misogynistic before the liberals pounced on her for being a scientologist. Now Emily is being called a "rape apologist." Seems like she was born into the cult, and left Danny Masterson behind after he was found guilty ... but who cares about any of that when you can just bury the woman right away?

"Emptiness Machine" sounds exactly like a group coming back after a number of years to try and reclaim former glory. Unable or unwilling to innovate.

Listened to all 7 of their albums over the last few days. First time with One More Light since Chester killed himself ... and damn that one hits hard. Almost too hard. I was getting all emotional out in public and stuff. First three are still the best, Living Things is solid, Hunting Party is still weirdly underwhelming and Thousand Suns is just too much of a trend-chaser.

Rankings!:

1. Breaking The Habit
2. Faint
3. Somewhere I Belong - these top 3 can go in any order depending on the listen
4. Pushing Me Away
5. What I've Done
6. Numb
7. New Divide
8. One More Light
9. A Place For My Head
10. Papercut
11. One Step Closer
12. Don't Stay
13. Given Up
14. Lying From You
15. Leave Out All The Rest
16. Forgotten
17. Shadow of the Day
18. My December
19. Lost In The Echo
20. Figure 9
21. Easier To Run
22. In The End
23. In Pieces
24. From The Inside
25. With You
26. Burn It Down
27. The Catalyst
28. By Myself
29. Runaway
30. I'll Be Gone
31. Hit The Floor
32. Victimized
33. High Voltage
34. Qwerty
35. Bleed It Out
36. Castle of Glass
37. Nobody Can Save Me
38. Battle Symphony
39. No More Sorrow
40. Wastelands
41. Sorry For Now
42. Nobodys Listening
43. Crawling
44. The Messenger
45. Guilty All The Same
46. In My Remains
47. Hands Held High

I really like all of these songs too lol. Its so nice to have them back.

Living Things is excellent, imo. I heard it many years later, too. It's hard to top the impact of experiencing Hybrid Theory and Meteora upon release and at my impressionable age, but Living Things is, musically, a better album for me. It's impossible to rank them but I will say this; I would rather listen to Living Things right now than all their other albums.

Woah!!! I was just happy to hear the old songs again. Did not expect them to put out anything this good.

Another decent song. I look forward to WWE using it.

Two-Faced = recycling of Papercut + One Step Closer. Best of the four new songs so far.

10/10 hyped for the album tonight.

Still need to see how it does for me over time, but currently I’d already rank the new album ahead of Living Things.

1. Minutes to Midnight
2. Hybrid Theory
3. Meteora
4. A Thousand Suns
5. One More Light
6. The Hunting Party
7. From Zero
8. Living Things

I like Cut the Bridge.

I like it but also feel like it didn't reach my hype level. So its like every LP album after I graduated high school.

Poppy actually pulled a surprise upset in the girl numetalcore battle. More on that in the YIR thread!

Heavy Is The Crown
Emptiness Machine
Casualty
Two Faced
IGYEIH
Cut The Bridge
Good Things Go
Stained


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Meteora
Hybrid Theory
Minutes To Midnight
Living Things
From Zero
One More Light
A Thousand Suns
The Hunting Party