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The Dead Sara instagram says "Who guessed right?! Our own @emilyarmstrong !! What a badass and what a live performance!! @linkinpark We are so proud of her! Don’t worry we’re not going anywhere. We’ll see y’all soon 💜✌️More to come…"

I'm so overwhelmed. A whole new live show. Two new members. A new single. A new album and a world tour in weeks. This was a much bigger drop than expected.

he is on the promo art and the album package as well

Brad is on the promo images for the album, thank god.

London o2 arena 24th September

world tour on website

Mike seemed to suggest Brad is in the band, just not playing at the moment? So only minus Rob as expected.

No brad? am I missing something?

stream is live early. At least have audio.

Did anyone tell Rob though? Or did he even read the message? He is going to be in for a bit of a shock when several thousand people turn up at his house.

The lanyards given for the event say 'From Zero'. For all the people that got pissed, the countdown wasn't just random. There was a reason it went back up, i.e From Zero.

Of course, I put two and two together and get five. I see LP with an A. A being for Emily Armstrong.

I did a meet and greet on the hunting party tour and all the band members kinda came out separately. And then one of LP's management thanked us all for coming and hoped we enjoy the show, we had to remind her that Rob hadn't come out, someone had to go and get him. When he came out, I told him, they had forgotten about him, so to fuck up the other guys he should sign my Hunting Party Vinyl the biggest to show that he was really the one that mattered. So now I have a THP vinyl with a huge Rob signature on it

A lot of people don't realise that singles aren't released at midnight regionally the same way albums are released. They can do, but they also often don't. They are often released at specific date and time universally. To match with other promo activities such as this. I think some people just got confused because they often just check at midnight for new releases.

That would make more sense, considering the more 'normal' looking LP logo in the teaser that appears to be covered in liquid.

Hmmm the logo is so different than that teaser though…

https://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/226987/linkin-park-tba Looks like very likely new single on Thursday. Considering this is the guy that previous reported the release of Friendly Fire.

Interestingly too, that photo that Mike liked is of her from 2000 saying that she wants to make that person proud this year... and that is her 2024 moodboard....

Yeah, I was at one such festival and was looking forward to seeing them, there was no announcement, not even from the festival, they just disappeared without anything being said. They certainly don't seem to be active currently, their website says under construction and new site coming soon but that post is from September 2023. It seems they went quiet around the time that potentially something happened if you consider Mike's release and something potentially happening around that time that changed his plans. From what she has posted, she is recording something, but doesn't seem to be active with Dead Sara and this wasn't cross posted on there accounts. So she is up to something, LP related or not. Of course all speculation. Normal life happens and sometimes these things line up allowing us to see patterns which aren't really there, but it is rather curious. Was there any other reason why she was rumoured?

Weird. I've been keeping an eye on Emily Armstrongs instagram after the rumours as I'd love it to be her. I saw that Jim Digby was following her (LP's tour manager) who I was pretty sure didn't show before. I left it on the screen and just came back to check and it appears he isn't following her anymore....

Maybe the release time changed, seems odd to me to not have a countdown back to 0 which would have made the most sense rather than end on count up.

Seems maybe we are in a different time line and Mike actually got caught by Thanos' snap.

I'm very curious as too what's been going on behind the scenes, I hope we find out. I've not seen it discussed much but the timing seems curious. Just at the end of last year, Mike released already over and seemed to be teasing/talking about something bigger as if it was a new era for him and Mike Shinoda music, he talked about non-traditional release schedules and the whole 'crimson' thing and even making a big deal about shaving his hair etc, seemed like it was symbolising a new era for him and releases. But then he went pretty silent and then now we have this. It seems to me like something came together behind the scenes and changed his plans? I'd also not be too sure that there is a full album coming soon as if this is true, the time frames would be pretty tight. Also I always thought the timing of the Papercuts release was strange. As you just had the Meteora 20 stuff and if you were going to follow that release schedule and perhaps do a Minutes to Midnight 20, then I thought they would spread the releases out a little bit more and a 'greatest hits' would have come a little later than it did. I wonder if it's all somehow related, perhaps even contractually and was purposely put out to kinda signify that era of LP and now we are moving into the new one.

I honestly hope that nothing really leaks before we get the full announcement, they are purposely giving us so little, I'd love it just to be like BOOM! and for it to be a mic drop moment.

I'd like to announce, the new vocalist for Linkin Park, as voted by you! Everyone please put your hands together for Singer McSingerface!