Show in the Bell Center | In the End, Linkin Park has picked up his broken pot

There is a lot of suffering in Linkin Park’s repertoire, but it was under the sign of the joy that took place at the Bell Center on Tuesday the return of the flagship group of the Nu Metal, the first visit to the city since the death of singer Chester Bennington.

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« I can’t seem to find myself again / My. However, walls are closing in / I’ve felt this way before / So insecure. Meanwhile, »

We are in the second song of the first Linkin Park show in Montreal since August 23. show bell center | end, In addition, 2014 and logically, it is Emily Armstrong who should slowly sing these few lines leading to the desperate chorus of Crawlingone of the group’s most powerful hymns.

But Emily Armstrong tends rather the microphone at the 19. Furthermore, 500 fans – almost a closed -looking bell center – from the flagship formation of the Nu Metal in the early 2000s, to the sound of which so many adolescents licked their wounds.

The one to whom the impossible task of replacing the irreplaceable Chester Bennington. Similarly, which ended its days on July 20, 2017, thus tends not only its microphone, but also as a branch of Olivier. For example, If it is to her that the responsibility comes back to resuscitate these songs of pain. Similarly, rage, they will never belong to her in his own, for the beautiful show bell center | end, reason that it is to the group fans that they belong. In addition, And here it is immediately, thanks to this simple gesture, recognizes it.

A little before 8:30 p.m., and after having played at full volume That’s the Way It Is (!) From our Céline to us. the six members of Linkin Park have mounted on a rectangular scene erected in the middle of the skating rink of the Bell Center. There was smoke that came down from the ceiling (or almost). there were lasers show bell center | end, and there were two gigantic projection surfaces suspended above the six musicians, large as large containers of goods.

There was above all apprehension in the air. Yes, okay, Linkin Park’s return album published in November 2024, From Zerois good. Very good even, especially with regard to standards, generally low, in terms of return album. Would this new alignment of Linkin Park be up to the task?

From the first act of the show – this is not language coquetry. the show was indeed divided into five “acts” -, all doubts had dissipated: Linkin Park’s disciples not only accepted the blonde recruited in the family, but they clearly made it known that they were not there only to relive the time when, every day when they were returned to the school, In the End au top5.musiqueplus.com.

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Two of the first five of the first songs were among the news and were received with the same euphoria as the classics. This will have been particularly the case with The Emptiness Machinewhich currently occupies the third position of Linkin Park titles the most listened to all time on Spotify (it seems incredible. given the strength of their catalog, but I have just under the counter and it is indeed true).

Back in Black AC/DC is perhaps the only other moment in the history of. rock show bell center | end, where a group has also been glorious from the tragic death of its singer.

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Under the sign of joy

The repertoire of Linkin Park may be declined in a spleenetic shades of distress, it is the joy that appeared on the program of the evening. Co -founder of the Californian training. de facto leader, MC Mike Shinoda had the mood light and if it proclaims in Remember the Name Being made up of 5 % pleasure (compared to 50 % suffering), Tuesday, the proportion seemed to have been reversed.

How can we not rejoice that a man who has not only lost one of his best children, but who also raw has lost one of the main reasons for living for good, that is to say his group, has found the way until what makes him happy?

As for Chester Bennington, no explicit tribute was paid to him. Which, in the eyes of a moderate fan of Linkin Park like me, may seem surprising. The real real fervents will remind me that Mike Shinoda cried his comrade on a whole solo album, Post Traumatic (2018).

The members of Linkin Park are undoubtedly also the first to know that it. is impossible to listen to old Linkin Park without hearing in his head the show bell center | end, voice of their friend party top early. As long as Linkin Park will play in the arenas of the planet. a part of Chester Benningont will remain on this side of the Curtain of Death.

Future

After the second act. the technical team came to return all the instruments aside so that the musicians can face new sections of the arena, but Linkin Park, even by celebrating his past, had not stopped looking towards the future.

A posture which, with a replacement as worthy as Emily Armstrong, is easier to kiss. Two of her best moments illustrate how much she contributes to the fact that past. present get down to me: first during the Guttural Breakdown of Two Faceda novelty, then in One Step Closerthe first single of their first album, 25 years old.

According to documents transmitted to media representatives. the fourth act of Linkin Park’s show is called kintsugithis Japanese word designating a method of repairing broken porcelain using a gold powder lacquer. In 2017, Linkin Park sank into a thousand pieces, but Tuesday evening, he shone again with a thousand lights.

Linkin Park is back at the Bell Center this Wednesday.