Emily Armstrong’s ‘The End’ tattoo has been amended since she joined Linkin Park – three guesses what word comes before it…
Emily Armstrong has shared a very wholesome new tattoo update.
After joining Linkin Park – and then scoring a Number One album with their 2024 album From Zero – the singer has further solidified her love and dedication to the band by amending a tattoo on her arm that previously just said, ‘The End.’ Now? Well, now of course it reads, ‘In The End’, a nod to Linkin Park’s classic 2000 single from Hybrid Theory, which Emily has been belting out live on the From Zero World Tour this year in the absence of the late, great Chester Bennington.
In September, Emily revealed of how she joined the band, and what it was like being with them in the studio: “There’s fucking no way you can process it. I remember we were there late that night, and afterward I was panicking in the best way: ‘Is it real?’ For three days at least, I don’t ever remember touching the ground. And then everything was different when I came back down – knowing my life was going to be different, in the best way. I came back to a dreamland.”
Then, when From Zero went straight to the top spot of the charts, she said: “From Zero to Number One! Thank you so fucking much, this is so surreal. It’s my first Number One, so I’m freaking out! I’ll say it a thousand times, and it feels like it’s not enough to say ‘thank you’, I can only say so many times how grateful I am.”
From Zero landed at number seven in Kerrang!’s list of the 50 best albums of 2024.
“The emotional gut punch of Linkin Park’s return was accompanied by surprise at how fully stocked it was – heralding live shows, an excellent single (The Emptiness Machine), and even a full-length record,” we wrote.
“But what tact would LP take on From Zero, their first album in seven years? Perhaps sensibly, they eschewed the experimental impulses of their last few albums before Chester Bennington’s far-too-early death, in favour of something familiar yet fresh, awash with the sound that captivated the world in the first place.
“Meanwhile, new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong – a figure of intense scrutiny – let her love for the band and decades-long admiration of Chester flow through her, delivering performances of great intensity and passion.”
Read this: The secret history of Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory: In their own words
