🎶 Listening to From Zero by Linkin Park.

This is nu-metal gids Linkin Park’s first album in 7 years, and the first since the death by suicide of their previous lead co-singer, Chester Bennington.

In his place we see Emily “Get your screamy pants on” Armstrong, a decision that has been controversial with part of the fandom. I imagine some of it is the classic stupid anti-woke BS also known as sexism. But there is more to it than that. Apart from anything else, it’s quite a change, which always has to be an emotional process when the previous titleholder was so renowned and died so tragically). But, music-wise, I think it works well.

With older bands that I listened to in my youth, and still sound vaguely the same as they did back then, it’s always hard to tell how much my reaction is affected by nostalgia. But either way, I’m thoroughly enjoying the album. It’s not all that revolutionary, but it doesn’t need to be given the quality of their production in their early days. The band proves themselves as able to face a new day, despite all that happened before.