Despite having numbers that attest to its importance, the band seems to have never received the recognition it deserves for the successes achieved over the years.
“And when you find out LinkinPark in the golden age it was seen as a NXZero from metalheads?”said one Internet user, in a recent viral posting on X/Twitterafter another fan was outraged by the existence of haters in the group. Yes, they exist, and both that and the band’s abrupt end in 2017, following the tragic death of their lead singer Chester Benningtonthey cause many people to fail to see the relevance of the work of Americans at their peak.
If numbers like the over 30 million copies sold of the album Hybrid theory (2000) and the other more than 15 million Meteor (2003) The reflections of are not enough Courtney LaPlante serve as a complement to have that dimension.
The topic came up in an interview on the program The Allison Hagendorf Show (go Metal hammer), because the Canadian group Spiritboxof which the singer is part, will tour in 2025 with the new incarnation of the American band, now with Emily Armstrong under the heading e Colin Brittain on the battery. LaPlante highlighted how his peers helped define the sound of “mainstream metal” in the 21st century.
“The fact that people welcomed this band back with open arms was eye-opening. I thought I understood how big this band was, but I didn’t. The gigantic, enormous impact this band had on the Earth [teve]. I thought I already had great and noble ideas, but apparently I couldn’t even imagine them.”
One of the two shows Spiritbox will perform with Linkin Park in 2025 will be at Wembley Stadium, London, England, one of the largest venues in the world for an artist to perform. Courtney points out:
“If you asked me if I would ever play Wembley Stadium, I would say, ‘Sure, maybe if I opened for a hip-hop artist or Foo Fighters or something like that’. But I didn’t think I could do it with a band that also plays metal and created a kind of metal genre.”
The new phase of Linkin Park
As well as playing a short run of shows in 2024 – two of which sold out in Sao Paulo last November – Linkin Park have released a new album featuring Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain. From scratch It also arrived last month and had a great response.
The album reached number one on the charts in 15 countries, including the UK, Germany, Australia, France and Portugal. There was only one “stone in the shoe” in the most important music market in the world, the USA, where they came in 2nd place: the EP Golden Hour: Part.2from the k-pop group Ateezwon the highest award.
Although it did not reach number one in the United States, From scratch was the rock album that reached the highest position in the overall country charts in 2024. The last time an album of this genre reached the top of the chart was in November last year, with Another time…from Flashes-182.
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