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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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[–] hoshikarakitaridia 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Hot take: I hate when bands switch their singer or a lot of their members and still stick to the old band name.

The only reason to do it is to get the instant reach, but you will always be sandbagging on a name that means something else and a lot of fans will only compare your new lineup to the old one.

Making a new band name means you have to start fresh, but sometimes you can already take some relationships and prestige into your new project (Mike shinoda is a household name outside of Linkin park) and no one will expect a specific style out of you. It just feels like the better thing to do in most circumstances.

I'm torn. I wanna like them and I wish them the best, but this name brings back memories and also expectations. It sticks like tar to every new release and even though that's not fair, it won't change until they rebrand into something new.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

yeah, 70% of what made linkin park linkin park was like just chester. i'm skeptical.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Hard agree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But then you also get bands that had Chris Cornell in them and they'd all equally be just as awesome. Or how A Perfect Circle still basically sounds like TOOL.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia 2 points 2 months ago

That's fair, but I would prefer that over Linkin Park sounding like a completely different band.

Or Dream State, where 3/5 members got switched out and they stuck to the name, and now they sound completely different.

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

I haven't even given Sublime (with Rome) a chance. I just stick to old Sublime.

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

I agree completely. Alice in Chains is my favorite band, but I really don't think seeing them live would be worth it because they'd be doing all of Layne's songs without him. I know that in that case, Jerry also contributed a great deal to the lyrics and sound, but without Layne something feels missing...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

System would never.

(Can’t wait for this one to age poorly)

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 2 months ago

Hopefully they are all secretly immortal. Also hopefully I haven't missed any news about them and you're just bringing them up because they are adjacent to Linkin Park in your headspace.