When lead vocalist Chester Bennington died in 2017, many people expected that his group Linkin Park would call it quits.

Instead, the group took a prolonged break from the public and tried to figure things out.

The SoCal nu-metal act would re-emerge in September 2024 — things very much figured out — with the addition of Dead Sara co-founder Emily Armstrong sharing microphone duties with Mike Shinoda.

Linkin Park then followed two months later with “From Zero,” the group’s eighth studio outing — and its first with Armstrong — which has been both a critical and commercial success.

The Linkin Park comeback continued with a winning show at SAP Center at San Jose, which drew a massive crowd of some 17,500 fans — a good 2,000-3,000 more than a typical SAP sold-out concert — on Monday night (

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