Linkin Park Selects Emily Armstrong From Rock Band Dead Sara as New Singer
 

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/...ur-1236120238/

Linkin Park‘s new co-vocalist will be Emily Armstrong of the band Dead Sara, the band announced Thursday during a live performance event. Colin Brittain, a songwriter and producer for G Flip, Illenium and One OK Rock, will also join the group as a drummer.

The announcement came with a new single, “The Emptiness Machine,” the band’s first new music release in seven years, and the lead track for an upcoming album dubbed “From Zero.” The set will arrive on Nov. 15 (via Warner Records) as their first full-length effort since 2017’s “One More Light,” also the last Linkin Park album before the death of lead vocalist Chester Bennington.

Here's to the newest chapter of my favorite band.

I like it. It started off the right way with Mike taking the lead at the beginning to remind us all it's still LP, and then passed it along to Emily who did a great job with the rest.

Not terrible. The new singer seems tonally in line with that dead fellow.

It feels a bit like they chose a woman to avoid getting accused of hiring a Chester copycat as the new singer. But her timbre and style are VERY reminiscent of Chester.

I was never a big fan (too formulaic) but Chester Bennington was an amazing vocalist.

No surprise, twitter hates her because she's a Scientologist

They were going to get push back regardless of who they brought in. I understand you can't replace a singer but they do realize that Chester actually replaced Scott Weiland right before he died too, right?

I just saw her performance on Numb, and she is terrible. So she is a big no to me. I just don't think LP can recover. Chester made the band.

Already some fans are replacing her on vocals with Chester A.I dubs

Bit unfair to her, I don't think she's that bad.

Lots of replacement singers nowadays trying hard to live up to their originals - Jeff Gutt in STP, William Duvall in AIC and many more. Nothing wrong with LP trying to push forward.

It won't be LP as we all knew it, but they deserve to move forward.

I was sceptical about Duvall when he was first announced as the new singer but he brought something new to AiC. First, with him Jerry Cantrell became their lead singer with Will only singing lead vocals about 40 per cent of the time on the new albums. Also, unlike Layne Staley Duvall is a good guitar player - check out his solo in "Phantom Limb" for example or recent live versions of "Got Me Wrong" where Jerry sings lead and Will improvises the solos. Live he is also fantastic.

Yeah he has really earned his place - I first saw him live when they opened for - ironically in many ways - Velvet Revolver in Tinley Park, IL during their tour. The Black Gives Way To Blue album is terrific through and through...

Haha man, when you said „trying hard“ in your first post, I mentally added „trying TOO hard“ and tried to defend Duvall. Then I saw your new post and was confused as hell but it turns out I‘m just dumb. :lol:

Apparently Chester's own son is against the idea. For all the people going with the 'it's what Chester would have wanted', I'm pretty sure his son would have a better idea about that than them.

Eh. If fans and the rest of the band (which also includes the main song writers) are cool with it, why not.

Not necessarily.

So pretty much... screw what the family thinks, right?

Well, obviously not but in this case the opinion of a family member should not have as much weight as what the actual band members think.

Nah you aren't dumb. It's because I'm a republican and you are a democrat. You're modality is primed that anything I say is an assault on whatever you believe.

But you know.... we got this because your brain turns on as opposed to... you know... other people. :lol:

Where‘s this coming from? I know you‘re an AiC fan (like me) and I misread your post so I was trying to point out what I like about new AiC. There was not even an iota of hostility in my post.

The family isn't part of the band. If the music industry made decisions based on what the family members of a deceased singer wanted to do, we'd have no music industry.

I‘ve listened to the album a couple of times by now. Parts of it are really cool and have a nostalgic vibe, only some of the harsher vocals sound a bit forced to me (especially on ‘casualty‘). Overall, really cool but it also makes me miss Chester Bennington as a vocalist even more.

It's not a bad album and their re-invention with a female vocalist is cool but the album itself is all basically generic-fare "Linkin Park Music", which in some ways is a good thing, but in others makes for an immemorable record.

I mean, I used to like Linkin Park and I still don't dislike them, but I don't consider them too dissimilar from, say, Nickelback (who I also don't really dislike). As in, it's all pretty OK but... all kind of sameish?

Eh that's debatable. They definitely did try new things while staying true to their genre across their catalog. Every band has their signature sort of sound and when people complain about it "all sounding the same" I think of Steven Spielberg and how nobody complains that he opens all of his movies almost the same way, same vibe, same "show a shoe on the ground mystery".

But then look at Pearl Jam. A band that strayed so far from their expected sound that they've basically become some strange folk music band and looking back at it we find that is actually their sound as opposed to anything we heard on Ten or Vs.... and it shows too because they have some albums that straight up suck.

So, yeah Linkin Park has their earmark sound, but this new one sounded quite derivative and formulaic. Almost as if they wrote it that way on purposes to help usher in the new singer.

Oh, those guys… They have not released an album I didn‘t find horrible in almost 20 years. It is sad because I used to be a big fan but it‘s like you said: The bad albums represent them better than the good stuff they‘ve made. Sure, their hardcore fans will accurately claim that they are an amazing live band but I‘m not paying a 150 bucks to see them perform a three hour set half full of stinkers from their last four terrible albums.

I was really excited about the newest one from the two tracks I heard on the radio - I went out of my way to pick up the Blu-Ray audio copy for the fidelity and the mix. I will say that the production and sound quality is amazing, but it has two or three decent tracks and more garbage on the rest.

But for me it's basically Ten, Vs., Yield and Avocado. That's it - four all-the-way-through solid albums across a catalog of 12 studio albums.

I love Vitalogy and Riot Act too and enjoyed a lot of No Code and Binaural as well. But since we both agree on the Avocado album being great, the last good album is from 2006.

I saw them in 2012 and in addition to the horrible venue they played in, a lot of the setlist was awful as well.

I couldn't truly absorb No Code when it was released - that was their first rumblings of turning into some kind of folk band. But I saw them at the United Center during their Avocado tour and they played Present Tense and that alone sort of drew me into that album more than I had been in the past....