Linkin Park introduced {that a} new singer and drummer has joined the band as they prepares to launch their first new album in over seven years because the dying of frontman Chester Bennington.
Vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain carried out on stage with returning bandmates Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix and Joe Hahn throughout a livestreamed live performance on Thursday to showcase the brand new lineup. The band performed hits from its discography and debuted their new single The Emptiness Machine, off forthcoming album From Zero.
A globe-hopping area tour has been introduced to help the album launch, slated for Nov. 15. The band will carry out six reveals in Los Angeles, New York, Hamburg, London, Seoul, and Bogota, all earlier than the album drops publicly.
Critics and followers alike have been impressed by Armstrong’s vocal chops throughout Thursday’s present, praising her potential to “recall Bennington without attempting parody,” as AP music reporter Maria Sherman put it.
Armstrong’s Instagram page has been flooded with feedback from enthused Linkin Park followers, welcoming her to the band. The former Dead Sara lead singer might be a co-vocalist for Linkin Park alongside Shinoda.
Mike Shinoda (L) and Emily Armstrong (R) carry out alongside the remaining of Linkin Park throughout a world livestream at Warner Bros. Studios on September 05, 2024 in Burbank, California.
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But for some followers, the joy shortly soured after allegations resurfaced that Armstrong supported That 70’s Show actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson throughout his trial.
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The allegations stem from fellow musician, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who claims that Armstrong intimidated Masterson’s victims throughout a preliminary listening to. Masterson is a excessive-profile member of the Church of Scientology and Bixler-Zavala claims Armstrong can also be a distinguished Scientologist.
“Do your fans know about your friend Danny Masterson? Your rapist friend,” wrote Bixler-Zavala final yr in a touch upon Dead Sara’s Instagram web page.
“Remember how your fellow scientologist goon squad surrounded one of the Jane Doe’s when she was trying to leave the elevators? The court sherriffs had to escort her away from your awful cult.”
Bixler-Zavala shared a screenshot of this touch upon his Instagram story after it was introduced that Armstrong was becoming a member of Linkin Park, Rolling Stone reports, although the story has since been deleted.
Bixler-Zavala is a former member of the Church of Scientology and a Getty Images picture is circulating exhibiting him and Armstrong collectively at a Scientology occasion in 2013.
In this handout picture offered by Church of Scientology, Emily Armstrong (L) and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (R) attends the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre forty fourth Anniversary Gala on August 24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
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There don’t seem to be images of Armstrong at Masterson’s trials, however journalist Tony Ortega reported in 2020 that Armstrong showed up to an arraignment with Masterson as half of a big entourage of “longtime friends.”
Bixler-Zavala’s spouse, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, can also be a former Scientologist and she or he was one of the ladies that accused Masterson of sexual assault. Masterson was convicted of raping two Jane Doe’s, girls whose names weren’t made public, although he was by no means convicted on fees tied to Carnell-Bixler’s allegations, the Rolling Stone studies.
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