Linkin Park, comprising Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, Joe Hahn, Emily Armstrong, and Colin Brittain, continue their triumphant drive with a hard-hitting new single entitled “Heavy Is The Crown”.
The song serves as the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Anthem, marking the band’s first collaboration with Riot Games. The track kicks into high gear as an anthem equally appropriate for the high-octane multi-dimensional competition of League of Legends and music festival grounds worldwide.
“Heavy Is The Crown” also paves the way for LINKIN PARK’s first album since 2017, ‘FROM ZERO’, on November 15.
The song lands in the wake of the band’s first new music in seven years, “The Emptiness Machine”. Right out of the gate, “The Emptiness Machine” surged as a global smash with a seismic impact. It vaulted into the Top 5 of the Spotify Global Chart, catapulted to #1 on the Billboard Alternative and Rock Airplay Chart, and infiltrated the Billboard Hot 100 at #21.
The single has tallied unprecedented first-week numbers for a modern rock song at digital streaming platforms, generating north of 85 million Spotify streams and 26 million YouTube views on the music video.
Linkin Park just reached another benchmark, exceeding over 54 million monthly listeners on Spotify and becoming “the top-streamed rock band on the platform” and one of the “40 top-streamed artists globally on the platform.”
Earning acclaim, The New York Times hailed “The Emptiness Machine” as a “bombastic new track,” going on to assert, “the band is now ready to carry on as closely as possible the way it was before.” As part of an in-depth cover story, Billboard attested, “’From Zero’ pulsates with renewed energy, a dynamic extension of LINKIN PARK’s multifaceted aesthetic,” applauding how, “Across the board, they carry a sense of pace and urgency — as if the band members refused to let up or phone in one moment of their grand return.”
Ultimately, with ‘FROM ZERO’, the band is looking to harness the purest energy of their past, present, and future. The new era has officially begun. (via Secret Signals)