Linkin Park have today kicked off a very intriguing 100-hour countdown…
The band have updated their social media pages with a mysterious (and far too long for our liking) video timer, as well as pointing to their website which also includes the very same countdown.
Interestingly, LP’s website domain has just been updated to ‘ø.linkinpark.com’, and the official unlisted YouTube video of the countdown is also simply titled ‘ø’. So that’s got to mean something, right?
But it’s pretty hard to tell what this is pointing to. The band have done some cool nostalgic bits – from their Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000 – 2023) album to last year’s Meteora 20th anniversary super deluxe boxset – but this initial teaser seems like it could be something bigger.
At the end of April, Billboard reported that Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Dave Farrell had been “mulling a possible 2025 reunion tour and are considering hiring a female vocalist to succeed late lead singer Chester Bennington”, with booking agency WME “taking offers for a potential Linkin Park tour”. Is it something related to that?
Anyway, by our calculations the timer should end at 7pm on Wednesday, August 28 (BST), so see you then to find out what’s going on!