A funny text in Stereogum by a former amateur skater Loren DiBlasi about how nu-metal is entering figure skating, written after US pairs team Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier performed a stellar short program to the tune of Linkin Park’s signature nu-metal hit 'In The End'. There were other metal figure-skating mash-ups, like yet another Linkin Park song, 'The Catalyst', and Disturbed's cover of 'Sound of Silence'. So, what's the point of it: "In figure skating, like in nu-metal, there are very few second chances. Like Mike Shinoda ecstatically rapping across a supernatural desert of broken dreams or Alexa Knierim being launched into the heavens in a gravity defying triple twist, it’s all about pushing through pain and doubt to seize the moment".

The BBC Philharmonic has recorded a cover of Oasis‘ ‘She’s Electric’, made from lockdown. In similar, cover news, more than 250 Linkin Park fans from 36 countries recorded a quarantine cover of ‘In The End’. The video was created by YouTube users RocknMob, who organise mass performances of famous rock songs.

A Linkin Park fan The Unusual Suspect has created a mash-up of ‘One Step Closer’, featuring 139 movies singing the iconic track. TUS merged lines from a host of recognizable characters from movies such as 'The Lion King', 'Wayne's World', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Wonder Woman', 'Kindergarten Cop' saying the words from the song. It works surprisingly good.

Florida healthcare worker Christina Settanni talked a man out from commiting a suicide using Linkin Park lyrics, WKMG-TV reports. Settanni was driving along a state road when she noticed a man sitting on a ledge, when she stopped, sat next to him and recited a lyric from the Linkin Park song 'One More Light' - "Who […]