Linkin Park on Thursday announced plans to reform and play their first shows since the tragic death of Chester Bennington, the band’s frontman, in 2017.
The band also announced a new album, From Zero, and dropped their first new song in seven years, “The Emptiness Machine,” which features the group’s new members, Colin Brittain on drums and co-vocalist Emily Armstrong. The inclusion of Armstrong, the lead singer of Dead Sara, in the lineup has already proved controversial.
Some fans of the band have decried Armstrong’s alleged links to the Church of Scientology. In 2013, she was photographed attending an event at the church’s “celebrity center” in Hollywood. A press release at the time from the church’s official media resource center said the event was attended by more than 1,000 guests, among them “prominent members of the Church,” including Armstrong.
