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The mom of the late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington has mentioned she feels “betrayed” by the nu-metal band’s choice to reunite with a brand new vocalist with out notifying her.
Bennington died by suicide in 2017. Earlier this month, Linkin Park introduced they’re reuniting for a brand new album and tour with singer Emily Armstrong.
In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, Bennington’s mom Susan Eubanks claimed that the band are “making an attempt very exhausting to erase the previous.”
She mentioned her son’s bandmates had assured her they’d inform her in the event that they deliberate to reform.
“I really feel betrayed,” she mentioned. “They advised me in the event that they had been ever going to do one thing, they’d let me know. They didn’t let me know, they usually in all probability knew that I [wasn’t] going to be very blissful. I’m very upset about it.”
Eubanks mentioned she had beforehand been in touch with songwriter and co-vocalist Mike Shinoda about releasing archive songs that includes Bennington’s vocals, however had been caught unawares by the reunion announcement.
“I came upon about Emily Armstrong becoming a member of the band on Google,” she mentioned. “Once I go to Google to search for one thing, the very first thing that always pops up is Linkin Park. And I noticed that complete factor of, ‘We’ve got an announcement.’ That complete week, they had been on the high should you go enter something into Google.”
Eubanks additionally recalled that Shinoda had as soon as advised Bennington that Linkin Park would sound higher with a feminine singer, and that her son had advised her that if he had been ever to depart the group they’d doubtless exchange him with a lady.
“I don’t suppose that there’s anyone on the planet that has the identical voice,” she mentioned. “And after I heard that, I used to be simply so repelled that no, they’re making an attempt to do precisely what Chester did, however they’re not succeeding at it.”
Writing for The Unbiased, music critic Mark Beaumont argues that Linkin Park are placing their legacy at stake by reuniting.
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“Finally, it’s within the band’s palms – not these of Bennington’s household – as to who they really feel will greatest serve their music going ahead, to not point out who they’d be happiest sharing a tour bus with for years on finish,” writes Beaumont.
“Evaluations of Armstrong’s performances with the band have to this point hailed her as an thrilling and impressed successor to, moderately than a substitute for, Bennington. However except these legitimate criticisms are swiftly and comprehensively addressed, the Linkin Park comeback would possibly effectively be doomed from the off, at risk of stalling within the quicksand of public opinion.”
