Alternative Press has a new interview with members of Linkin Park for the cover story in their May 2025 issue. The magazine's editor-in-chief Anna Zanes sat down with Emily Armstrong, Mike Shinoda, and Phoenix to reflect on the From Zero album and campaign, as well as talk about the new songs included in the deluxe edition, and how the band has developed as a live act during this tour cycle. The story, titled "Linkin Park: Growing together", is now available to read on Alternative Press' website, and the interview has also been released on YouTube. In the interview, Shinoda and Phoenix explain that two of the new songs added as bonus tracks on the From Zero deluxe edition - "Unshatter" and "Let You Fade" - began during the album-making process but were finished afterwards while the band was on tour: Shinoda also explains that Linkin Park's creative process has always morphed over time as the band learns new things, and especially now with the addition of new members contributing their own insights. Always with a perfect metaphor at the ready, Shinoda neatly describes all these approaches and perspectives as "tools in the toolbox". Throughout the rest of the interview, the musicians touch on a range of things including the communal experience of performing live, the process of choosing opening acts for the tour dates, and that puzzling ad-lib in the "Casualty" intro: You can check out the rest of the new Alternative Press interview here. Source: Alternative Press on Twitter
I think you can absolutely tell that UFTB was designed and built after the drop of FZ. It really feels like, more than almost anything on that album or from that era, that it was designed first and foremost with "Okay, Emily is our new lead now, we know what she can do and we want to play with it a little", and you can hear that with the dynamics. There's a confidence and certainty. Or just... "something" there. Maybe something intangible, but definitely *there*. Making it a definitive spot that's structured like a classic Linkin Park single, is a choice they wouldn't have been able to make much earlier than this. If that makes sense. It's a statement of intent. "Now we can be this again".