Linkin Park, an alternative rock band based in the United States, have announced Emily Armstrong will join them for their new album and tour as the new lead singer.
Chester Bennington, the group’s former lead singer, took his own life in 2017.
Armstrong joins returning members Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix, and Joe Hahn for the band’s forthcoming projects.
Ahead of the launch of their forthcoming album From Zero, the band announced a new line-up ahead of the new world tour.
Armstrong is from Los Angeles, and best known as the singer in the alt-rock band Dead Sara, which she co-founded in 2005 with guitarist Siouxsie Medley.
In a Billboard interview, Armstrong recalled just how impactful Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory album, which debuted in 2000, had on her.
“I was in a band when it came out,” she recalled. “One Step Closer was the song for me, and I was just like, ‘that’s what I want to do. As a singer, I want to be able to scream’. “That album was everything – I’ve listened to it a trillion times. I would skate to it. I would mosh to it.”
Linkin Park has managed to stand the test of time, and is one of the only bands to be featured in Spotify’s top 10 most-streamed albums of all time. Their greatest hits collection, Papercuts, has managed to successfully attract over 9m streams per day.
The band’s upcoming world tour will stretch across Los Angeles, Hamburg, New York, Seoul, and London, with Bogotá in November.
This tour will be the first run of live performances since the passing of Chester Bennington in 2017, at the age of 41. Their new album will be preceded by a single, entitled The Emptiness Machine, which is the group’s first new piece of work since Bennington’s death.