LINKIN PARK Performs New Song ‘Heavy Is The Crown’ In Hamburg (Video)

LINKIN PARK debuted a new song titled “Heavy Is The Crown” live for the first time during their concert last night (Sunday, September 22) at Barclays Arena in Hamburg, Germany.

“Heavy Is The Crown” will serve as the theme song for the 2024 League of Legends World Championship esports tournament and will also be featured on LINKIN PARK‘s upcoming album, From Zero, set for release on November 15 via Warner. This album will be the band’s first full-length project since 2017’s One More Light, the final album before the passing of lead vocalist Chester Bennington.

The studio version of “Heavy Is The Crown” is anticipated to be released later this week.

Hamburg was the third stop on LINKIN PARK‘s comeback mini-tour, following shows in Los Angeles and New York. At all three concerts, the band performed a two-hour set on a high-tech stage designed to resemble an aircraft carrier, enabling a unique production and accommodating a higher-than-usual number of tickets sold at each venue.

In a recent interview with Brian Haddad and Kenzie Roman from Chicago’s Q101 radio station, LINKIN PARK‘s Mike Shinoda discussed the band’s decision to reform with a new lineup, now including singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, alongside returning members Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Joe Hahn.

Shinoda said: “In the middle of the process, we were open to, like, maybe the lineup is like a moving lineup, maybe there’s multiple vocalists, maybe it’s a different name, stuff like that. And then as the music came into focus, we were, like, ‘This is as LINKIN PARK an album as we could make. It’s so LINKIN PARK that if we call it something else, then we are idiots.’ Because it would be like misrepresentation. It’d be silly. And when people hear more of the album, they will understand that.”