Rumours began swirling earlier this year that Linkin Park are due to return with a new female vocalist

Lzzy Hale has shared a cover of Linkin Park‘s ‘Crawling’ amid rumours that the band are set to return soon – find out more below.

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Earlier this year, it was reported that the ‘Numb’ hitmakers were planning a 2025 tour and potentially looking to recruit a female vocalist to replace late frontman Chester Bennington.

Linkin Park have also been teasing an announcement recently, launching a mysterious countdown clock on their social media accounts last week – the clock, which ran out of time only to start counting up again, is suspected to unveil something on Thursday September 5.

Now, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm has further fuelled the rumours of Linkin Park’s return with a female vocalist, sharing a piano cover of ‘Crawling’ on social media.

The band have been on hiatus ever since the death of Bennington in 2017, who took his own life aged 41. Fans initially speculated that Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley would be announced as the new frontman, after the Canadian pop-punk band also teased an announcement last week.

However, Whibley set the record straight, telling that he’s “not joining Oasis… or Linkin Park. or any other band for that matter.” He went on to say that he has his own “tour and book” announcement that he will now be moving to the end of the week, adding: “I do look forward to seeing whatever both these amazing bands do in the future.”

Speaking to NME last year, LP’s Mike Shinoda opened up about any potential plans for some reissues. “Nothing planned right now. I always just tell people like when there’s news I’ll give you the news. We’ve been doing it for a while and I think our expectation for what’s a proper reissue is kind of high,” he told us.

He continued: “I don’t love putting out Greatest Hits stuff or putting out re-masters of things we’ve done, [so] if we were to do a re-reissue of one of our Linkin Park albums, we want it to be a big deal. If we can’t make it that quality then we won’t do it. If it’s not great then I don’t think we should do it.”

Following that chat, the band have shared the previously unheard ‘Friendly Fire’ with Bennington on vocals, which was originally recorded for the band’s 2017 sessions for ‘One More Light’. They also went on to release ‘Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023)’ in April, a 20-song overview of the band’s best-selling tracks over the past two decades.