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I don't know about other locations, but the one I'm going to is giving out lanyards, stickers, and t-shirts (by drawing) so there's still a reason to go.

Over Each Other sounds incredible.

I'm going to a listening party about 40 minutes from my house on Saturday. Can't wait to hear new Linkin Park!!!

Name calling now? How mature... You're back-tracking doesn't change shit. If you seriously meant it as an inoffensive suggestion, you wouldn't have put the winking emoji at the end of it. That stage setup is cool as hell.

How do you tell if it's LPU-only? The only ones near me just say contact the location for information.

I'm predicting something like Eminem's Music to be Murdered By Side B or blink-182's One More Time Part 2. It'll be a re-release of the album with basically an album's worth of bonus tracks.

Another quick comment: I'm so glad that the band didn't feel the need to put Mike's vocals in every song to ground it in familiarity. They let Emily shine on this track and I love it.

How is anybody saying this sounds like One More Light? It's more similar to something like Leave Out All the Rest or Final Masquerade than anything from OML. This is a classic Linkin Park ballad through and through.

Let's get even more granular! TEM 976/1000 HITC 789/1000 Haven't listened to OEO yet.

Does the song officially release Thursday? I wonder how it ended up leaking. I feel like that's not very common in this day and age.

I feel like Deluxe editions released a year later with bonus tracks is something that's more popular now than it was during LP's original run. For that reason alone, I see something like this as a possibility.

I wouldn't be surprised if we got an extended version of From Zero next summer, honestly, but the soonest I would expect another album is late 2026/early 2027.

If this song releases soon, we are absolutely going to get a fourth song before the album release. I kinda wish that they hadn't released HITC so soon after The Emptiness Machine, but I get that for it to tie into the whole League of Legends thing, they kinda had to. I'm hoping that we don't get Over Each Other until the last week of October so they don't really have time to release another single.

I always get excited when I see artists they've collaborated with on the bill with them. Fingers crossed for Daron to come out and do Rebellion with them again. Edit: Just noticed Seven Hours After Violet is on here, too. Half of System of a Down will be there! lol

I wonder if Rob's "active involvement" during this period was mostly, "I'll play the drums when we get to that part of the recording process." As for the outside songwriters thing: Members of the band have stated that they've been screwing around with ideas and recording and writing stuff for fun since like 2019 with no thought of whether it was Linkin Park music or not. I bet a lot of these songs weren't originally envisioned as Linkin Park songs, but rather became LP songs later in the process. I feel like The Emptiness Machine was written later in the process with the goal of reintroducing the band after it was decided that they would still be Linkin Park (like, just look at the structure - Mike singing the whole first third of the song by himself anchors it in something familiar with Emily coming in later in the song to introduce the new element all while maintaining that classic Linkin Park sound).

Right now, I'm planning not to listen to anything else from them until the album releases, but I know that's not going to actually happen once it drops.

That's pretty neat. Do you have a screen grab?

Linkin Park is pretty damn big in America. They've had tons of hits and new albums always release at/near the top of the Billboard charts.

I don't think they really "reformed" after Xero because the band still consisted of the same guys. They renamed the band and found a new vocalist. Xero = Hybrid Theory = Linkin Park

I think an EP would be a great place to get experimental. There's not as much expectation as there is with an album.

I also hate this insistence that Rob owes us some kind of statement. Saying stuff like it's the "decent" thing for him to do reeks of entitlement. If Rob ever wants to clarify things, cool. If not, he's not failing to meet some obligation he has to the fans.

> the game Arcane League of Legends Arcane is actually a TV series based on the game League of Legends, not a game itself.

I can dream!

With Helmet supporting, fingers crossed for Page to come out and do All For Nothing.

It's that synth at the end. It sounds very similar to one that's used on a few different Meteora demos. The breakdown riff also feels reminiscent of that era's demos.