Linkin Park Are Reportedly Considering Getting Back On The Road With A New Singer

Billboard- Three members of Linkin Park are mulling a possible 2025 reunion tour and are considering hiring a female vocalist to succeed late lead singer Chester Bennington, several sources close to the band tell Billboard.

Booking agency WME is taking offers for a potential Linkin Park tour along with headlining festival dates featuring Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Dave Farrell, the sources say. The band has not indicated who will sing on behalf of Bennington, who was often praised as one of the most gifted and durable vocalists of the 2000s with a dynamic range tailor-made for the group’s genre-bending style.

One source tells Billboard the band is hoping to find a female vocalist to front the reunited band, matching rumors that have been making the rounds in recent weeks. 

Interesting news outta Billboard today - WME is reportedly fielding offers for a Linkin Park reunion tour in 2025 where the band would be replacing their late vocalist, Chester Bennington, for the very first time. 

Right now, the rumor is that they're looking for a female vocalist to lead the band into this new era, with Halestorm's Lzzy Hale and Evanescence's Amy Lee being names thrown around - but Lee shot those rumors down last month….

Billboard- Earlier this month, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee shot down rumors that she might be a candidate for the lead vocal gig. 

On April 23, the singer told iHeartRadio Canada that, while some Linkin Park fans had been voicing hopes for her to join the band, the group had not contacted her for the gig.

“But that’s awesome,” she said. “They should ask me about that. I don’t have a ton of free time, but I might do it part-time.”

….the female vocalist rumor MAY be from this LA radio host, though, who claimed they already had a singer selected - and then said "I know nothing about any of that." later….

Billboard- On March 30, during an appearance on Wired in the Empire on KCAL 96.7, Orgy’s Jay Gordon said he had heard rumors about a Linkin Park reunion.

“Very, very cool guys and obviously a great band,” he said. “They’ve been around a long time and they’re still going for it,” he said. “It’s going to be tough without Chester, but we’ll see. I hear they got a girl singer now. That’s what I heard.”

Gordon later issued a statement saying his comments had been taken out of context, writing, “With regards to this linkin park singer thing. I know nothing about any of that.”

It's been almost seven years since Chester tragically took his own life, and it's taken this long for the band to even consider getting back together because that voice is impossibly unique and hard to replicate. Nobody I've ever heard can sing as delicately AND harshly as Chester when needed, and to try to replace that would just be a waste of time. I mean, listen to this….

So I could see why they'd turn in a completely different direction and put their sights on a female vocalist, even if a large portion of their fanbase would probably like to see someone like Deryck Whibley from Sum 41 take the reigns. And he'd be fuckin awesome, by the way….

If they're dead set on getting a chick, though, my vote would be Kat Moss from SCOWL - one of the hottest hardcore bands in the world right now….

I have no idea if she's up for the part, or even wants to join a band like Linkin Park with a huge legacy to live up to - but I think she'd be a cool pick. She's got the look, she's got the voice, she's not super famous yet….why not? 

Oh, and I'm sure many fans would rather just leave Linkin Park be, and not bring them back at all without Chester - but I'd personally rather live in a world with Linkin Park than without them. I was supposed to see them live for the very first time just two weeks after Bennington passed and never got to; instead, that night I saw Queen with Adam Lambert and they put on a fucking PHENOMENAL show. It really opened my eyes to how a band could move on without even the most iconic lead singer ever. 

It wasn't the same, of course, and nobody could reach Freddie's height - but it was still awesome. I think Linkin Park could figure something out in the same vein and carry their own legacy into the next generation, and I'd support it 100%.

Anyway - here's a bunch of classic Chester videos….