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Linkin Park reunites with 7 years after Chester Bennington's death, with new music (apnews.com)

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As someone who grew up loving Linkin Park, I am hesitantly excited. The single they released is actually pretty good - The Emptiness Machine.

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[–] lazycouchpotato 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

She was great. She's able to hit those vocal ranges that Chester was able to. Kinda sounds like him too in certain songs.

Looking forward to this new era of LP.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

She did a good job but this really made me appreciate how unique Chester Bennington's voice was.

Edit: I take it back. She's a Scientologist. Gross.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You realized it before this 😉.

But agree with you. I do like what I'm hearing, so take the rest of this comment as microcritique.

... it sounds too polished to me. It sounds too much like their later albums (fine), but i feel like I'm not given any time to fall in love with the raw vocals and the raw sound. It just sounds too polished out of the gate, especially for a live show.

I think the underproduced to overproduced sound happens with everyone, so not knocking it, but id really love to hear some more raw (less overproduced) music with this band and this singer.

That being said I've only listened to the first song! Ive bookmarked it for this weekend .

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Just looking for proof she’s currently a Scientologist.

[–] The_v 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Listened to a few songs then gave up She really needs to stop trying to mimic Chester and just be herself. When she lets herself sing it's decent. She has a good range but nowhere near the power that Chester had. It's just not there and never will be.

I'd rather hear her make the songs her own in her most comfortable range.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

She needs to learn how to sing from her diaphragm. Like a singer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

She definitley can't hit the vocal rangers of Chester. Sounds very unnatural when she tries to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the link! I agree - a few songs there were some notable "slumps" compared to what I would have expected from Chester, but there were also some parts that came across a little better? She has a great voice for the singing parts, and a really respectable scream.

Waiting for the End almost made me cry.