As far as Nu-Metal goes there isnt much to argue against the first two Linkin Park albums being fine examples. Sadly, the recently released Crossfaith album “EX_Machina” can’t garner much in the way of praise at all, with the exception of one track. Their cover of “Faint” which features Masato from Coldrain. Baltimore, Maryland Metalcore
Tucson Arizona Nu-Metal band Lethal Injektion have continued the Chester Bennington tributes a year after his passing with a cover of “Lying From You” by Linkin Park. The song comes ahead of the bands participation in a Linkin Park tribute show and new single “The Fall” dropping on 9th August!
Dutch Deathcore crew Distant have dropped the first tease from their upcoming new album with a music video for “Endgame” via Chugcore Promotions. The Rotterdam crew already have a pair of EPs out alongside Linkin Park and Shrill Whispers covers which are all available over at bandcamp.
Italian Metalcore crew Sharks In Your Mouth (presumably named after the I Killed The Prom Queen song) came to our attention with their powerful debut album “Promises” which features a guest appearance from Betraying The Martyrs frontman Aaron Matts on “Say It To My Face”. They also turned a lot of heads with their version
How many Linkin Park covers do you need? Is there room for one more? Canadian Guitarist & Producer Andrew Baena thinks so. He’s dropped this cover of “Crawling” featuring vocals from Brojob‘s Andrew Zink. It’s also interesting that Zink contacted Baena to do the cover, seeing as Brojob already have a cover of Linkin Park’s
It kind of goes without saying that there has been a huge outpouring of love for Linkin Park with the passing of their iconic frontman Chester Bennington. October Ends recently joined the live-in with their Tech-Metal inspired cover of “From The Inside” featuring Arva (ex-Oceans Ate Alaska).
Russian-based Technical Progressive Death Metal band Shokran have released a tribute to Chester Bennington in Linkin Park cover “Nobody’s Listening”. A touch of class.
