Compact and intense, the band’s first album since the death of Chester Bennington is a powerful tribute to their legacy

Oasis may have sold out stadiums, but for many music fans there’s an even bigger comeback this year: Linkin Park have returned, breaking a seven-year hiatus which followed the 2017 suicide of co-frontman Chester Bennington. Their comeback single The Emptiness Machine entered the UK singles chart at Number 4 in September – quite impressive for a nu-metal band whose lead singer died seven years ago, and even more impressive in a Top 5 that has spent most of the year as the domain of pop acts too young to remember the 2000 release of Linkin Park’s debut album…

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