Linkin Park Release New Single ‘Heavy Is The Crown’: Listen
Linkin Park have shared their new single, Heavy Is The Crown, the second single from their hotly anticipated comeback album, From Zero, which is released 15 November. Watch the music video, made in collaboration with online game League Of Legends below.
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The band have also added three stadium shows to their ongoing reunion tour, which reaches the O2 Arena in London tonight (24 September). In addition to upcoming concerts in Seoul and Bogota, they’ll be playing in Paris, Dallas and São Paulo. Support in Paris will come from modern metal giants Sleep Token, while Bad Omens, Jean Dawson and Helmet will join the Dallas bill. General sale for tickets starts Friday 27 September).
The band announced a comeback earlier this month with new vocalist Emily Armstrong, previously of Dead Sara. Original vocalist Chester Bennington committed suicide back in 2017.
Speaking to Radio 1’s New Music Show on Monday, guitarist and singer Mike Shinoda said their return was “not meant to be a redo or a rewrite of Linkin Park”.
“This is intended to be a new chapter of Linkin Park,” Shinoda went on. “The old chapter was a great chapter and we loved that chapter. It ran its course and now we were faced with a challenge of: ‘well OK, if you start from scratch with another voice, what do you do?'”
Shinoda also revealed he’d been working with Armstrong since 2019. “We were just slowly coming together and then eventually things just started to fall into place with Emily and with Colin our new drummer,” he said.
“We talked about putting her voice on things we’d already written that only had my voice on them. Once we did that, we were like, ‘that sounds really good, we should try that on even more songs’.”
Linkin Park 2024 tour dates:
September
24: London The O2, United Kingdom
28: Seoul INSPIRE Arena, South Korea
November
3: Paris La Defense Arena, France
8: Dallas Globe Life Field, TX
11: Bogota Coliseo Medplus, Colombia
15: São Paolo Allianz Park, Brazil