{"id":639724,"date":"2026-06-15T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:24:09","slug":"download-2026-linkin-park-ignore-the-noise-with-triumphant-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639724\/","title":{"rendered":"Download 2026: Linkin Park ignore the noise with triumphant set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rock and metal has been far from a man’s game for a long time.<\/p>\n

But some habits have been harder than others to break – Download Festival and its predecessor Monsters Of Rock have had to wait until 2026 for a female-fronted band to headline the festival.<\/p>\n

Linkin Park took that title on Sunday night, and it was a stunning performance.<\/p>\n

There has been a lot of noise around the rights and wrongs<\/a> of the band continuing following the loss of Chester Bennington, but it’s not Emily Armstrong’s fault that the band decided to play on \u2013 and at this festival she played a blinder.<\/p>\n

In a storming set, she gave classics such as Numb and Papercut a new life. In Overflow, from the one Linkin Park album she has been part of, her harmonies dovetailed beautifully with those of fellow lead vocalist Mike Shinoda.<\/p>\n

The festival got under way on Friday in Donington Park, Leicestershire, with Cypress Hill one of the acts to grace the main stage.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Download has pushed the boundaries with the genres it includes, and the Californian hip-hoppers were as much at home here as any of the more traditional fare on the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock and metal has been far from a man’s game for a long time. But some habits have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}