Like Emily Armstrong, she found herself in Linkin Park without knowing it

Finding a singer to whom to entrust the very difficult task of taking the place of Chester Bennington in the “version 2.0” – if we want to define it – of Linkin Park, was a company for Mike Shinoda and his companions. It was last September 5, almost a year ago, when Shinoda and associates revealed to the whole world the new formation of the reunited Linkin Park, with Emily Armstrong on the voice and Colin Brittain on drums, together with which the band recorded the album “from Zero”. But the two, at least initially, did not even know they were chosen to join the “regenerated” Linkin Park. To tell it was, after almost a year, Mike Shinoda himself, explaining how the entry of Armstrong, already co-founder of the band Dead Sara, and Brittain in the group took place and how the restart of the Linkin Park was managed seven years after Chester Benningon’s death.

In an interview granted to the American broadcaster 105.7 The Point, Shinoda said:

We knew we wanted to have the best possible version of all this, so we were very careful not to tell her or colin type: ‘Hey, you are playing in the Linkin Park’. At the beginning, we just said: ‘We are friends, we make music’. And in fact, Colin thought he would be my solo project, while Emily thought he would just go as a guest in the project.

Shinoda then stressed that the shared time in the room led the members of the band to create a bond:

In the end, the more time we spent with them, the more he became like a group of friends who met. A minute before it seemed to us to work on something, and then a minute later we realized: ‘Oh, we were sitting to speak for hours, without doing anything’. I think this is the magic of each band: you have to have similar goals. You have to like each other as people, want similar things and then, of course, music must also be mixed. But for me, music comes out more easily if there are all these other things.