Linkin Park, whose top-secret return was revealed earlier this month with a new album, singer, drummer and tour, have dropped a new single and video titled “Heavy Is the Crown” and new concert dates added in Dallas, Paris and Brazil.
The song, from their forthcoming album “From Zero” (due on Nov. 15), is the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Anthem, marking the band’s first collaboration with Riot Games. It follows the release earlier this month of the first single from the album, “The Emptiness Machine,” which the band performed on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
The group, which launched its arena tour in Los Angeles two weeks ago, has added three November dates to the “From Zero” tour, in Paris, Dallas, and São Paulo. Fan club exclusive presales start September 25 and general on-sales start September 27.
The group’s lineup is now Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, Joe Hahn, Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain.
Variety’s Chris Willman wrote of the Los Angeles concert: “Linkin Park is back and it means business. The reconstituted band, with Emily Armstrong stepping in to a lead singer role, played its first full performance since the death of former frontman Chester Bennington on Wednesday night at L.A.’s Kia Forum. And if there was any thought that the very short international tour the group is embarking on would just be a repeat of the abbreviated livestream set they did to announce the new lineup last week, that was put to rest with a packed 27-song show that came in at just a hair over two hours…
“The reconstituted and reconfigured group passed a serious test Wednesday night, powering through legacy material, with Mike Shinoda vigorously fulfilling his co-frontman duties and Armstrong stepping into the newly created role of co-frontwoman. Whatever controversies have been attendant with this all-important new addition — and there have been multiple headlines to make it clear not everyone is on board with her — when it comes to the actual matter of the music, you would’ve been hard-pressed to find a soul in the galvanized Forum crowd who would have told you this risky gambit wasn’t paying off.”
FROM ZERO WORLD TOUR 2024
September 24, 2024 | The O2 – London, UK
September 28, 2024 | INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea
November 3, 2024 | La Defense Arena – Paris, France *NEW DATE*
November 8, 2024 | Globe Life Field – Dallas, TX *NEW DATE*
November 11, 2024 | Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia
November 15, 2024 | Allianz Park – São Paulo, Brazil *NEW DATE*
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