Mike Shinoda recently addressed the rumors surrounding Linkin Park’s announcement on September 5th. Linkin Park has invited fans to “Be Part Of Something,” reserved for LPUnderground members on September 5th. The cryptic nature of the announcement has fueled further speculation that a major reveal is imminent. A message on the band’s official website reads simply: “Be part of something. September 5.”
Mike Shinoda addresses Linkin Park rumors
Mike Shinoda decided to have some fun with the fans while teasing them with more. He has questioned “what’s on the 5th. Nobody said it was special.”
He then said that “i heard it was something. but then again everything is something. unless it’s nothing.”
Shinoda noted: “if i was told something was something, i wouldn’t assume it was nothing. unless i presumed that the person who told me something was something had already lied.”
He added: “Then i would be suspicious but i didn’t hear anything, so maybe it’s nothing
or something, is anything really nothing”
He concluded: “my heart goes out to anyone who is just experiencing all of this for the first time. must be tough”
Shinoda previously spoke to NME last year and opened up about potential plans for Linkin Park reissues.
“Nothing planned right now. I always just tell people like when there’s news I’ll give you the news. We’ve been doing it for a while and I think our expectation for what’s a proper reissue is kind of high,” he said.
He continued: “I don’t love putting out Greatest Hits stuff or putting out re-masters of things we’ve done, [so] if we were to do a re-reissue of one of our Linkin Park albums, we want it to be a big deal. If we can’t make it that quality then we won’t do it. If it’s not great then I don’t think we should do it.”
Linkin Park have released the previously unheard ‘Friendly Fire’ with Bennington on vocals and it was originally recorded for the band’s 2017 sessions for ‘One More Light’. They also went on to release ‘Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023)’ in April, a 20-song overview of the band’s best-selling tracks over the past two decades.
Linkin Park recently dropped a mysterious 100-hour countdown timer on their social media accounts. The website URL was showing a YouTube livestream with the same timer. Fans started to speculate that the band might announce a new vocalist to replace Chester Bennington. Fans even speculated that Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley might have been filling in for the late Chester Bennington.
However, when the countdown reached zero, the timer on their website switched to counting up and it disappointed the fans. Some fans noticed that the timer glitched at specific times, including exactly at 9:05, leading them to think an announcement might come on September 5th.
As per Billboard, Linkin Park’s booking agency WME is now taking offers for concerts and festivals featuring Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Dave Farrell. Though it’s not clear who will succeed Bennington, it is also reported that the band are looking for a female vocalist for their reunion.
