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These are daunting shoes to fill.
It asked the audience to quickly restructure a sense of what Linkin Park can and should be.
Her hiring also runs counter to the history of storied rock bands onboarding a new vocalist.
There was no audition process; writing new songs seemed to precede working out arrangements for the older ones.
The uncertainty about the future I could sense from Shinodalast yearwas a shrewd front.
Its really a new era: Theres skate-punk heft where the last album delivered somber, divisive alt-pop.
The livestream suggested that this can work.
(Shinoda told Zane Lowe that Armstrongs scream appealed to him because it feltbit crushedin real life.)
at the end of One Step Closer while making room for her own intrigue.
Armstrong wont be a Chester mimic, but there are points in her range that ring familiar.
