Last year’s return of Linkin Park was not really on many bingo cards.

The heavy rock group — which formed in 1996 in Agoura Hills, California, and once dubbed the Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now by Kerrang! magazine in 2014 — had been silenced by the July 2017 suicide of vocalist Chester Bennington. Its surviving members pursued other creative endeavors, but queries about continuing were met with noncommittal answers.

So it seemed fans would have to be comfortable with a legacy that included more than 100 million records sold worldwide, eight platinum or better albums and 21 Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart, including angsty No. 1’s such as “Somewhere I Belong,” “Numb,” “Breaking the Habit,” “Burn It Down” and “Until It’s Gone.” The group also collaborated with r

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