Linkin Park have shared the second taste of their forthcoming album ‘From Zero’, giving ‘Heavy Is The Crown’ its live debut in Hamburg on September 22.
With recently released single ‘The Emptiness Machine’ becoming the band’s highest ever charting single in the UK, co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain have had a mighty introduction to the ranks of the nu-metal legends.
With new album ‘From Zero’ set for release on November 15, ‘Heavy Is The Crown’ boasts signature rap verses from Mike Shinoda as well as some gnarly screams from Emily Armstrong.
Take a look at fan-shot footage of the song’s debut live performance below.
Following a special livestream event announcing their comeback on September 05, the band played the first official show of this new era at LA’s Kia Forum venue on September 11, following that up with shows in New York and Hamburg.
They will play further shows this month – take a look at their full list of dates below.
SEPTEMBER
24 – The O2 – London, UK
28 – INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea
NOVEMBER
11 – Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia
Earlier this year, in his Rock Sound 25 Icon interview, Mike Shinoda reflected on the growth of the band’s audience and its continuing legacy:
“To be in 2023 seeing brand new, teenage artists and bands show up referencing and loving Linkin Park music is such a blessing. We would have never guessed that we could be in this position. It’s crazy to think that some of them will be in this position later, they’ll grow up to be a band that somebody else references. That chain of influence and inspiration goes on. That’s a beautiful lineage. Separate from that, on the more practical or logical side of things, there’s the end of the year when everybody gets a lot of their data back, besides your Spotify Wrapped and stuff like that, more deep dive wrap ups that you get from management or your label or your publisher and so on. For a band that is technically inactive, Linkin Park has been on an upswing in the last two years. That is unbelievable. We got on one report for one DSP platform that we had gained multiple tens of millions of new listeners. Wow. That’s mind blowing. These are people that have never listened to Linkin Park and found us this year. All I can do is be grateful. There’s almost nothing else I can say about that. It’s just shocking. What do I say? Thank you.”
You can read that full interview with Mike inside his cover issue of Rock Sound magazine, available now at SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV.
