In November 2017, Bassist Henkka Seppälä discussed in an interview that the band had half an album’s worth of material written for the next album.
the Japanese leg in November
The band considered fulfilling their planned Japanese tour dates after the tribute concert, but cancelled the shows on October 3. In November 2017, Linkin Park announced that a live album compiled from their final tour with Bennington, titled One More Light Live , would be released on December 15. On…
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In November it was announced that X Japan will perform at the year-end Kōhaku Uta Gassen , as part of the White Team.
In November 2017, Swedish independent label Woah Dad! acquired the albums that Tankian recorded for Reprise Records .
On 28–29 October 2017, the band recorded their concerts in São Paulo , Brazil for a future live album and DVD.
They later took part in Linkin Park’s memorial concert for Chester Bennington on October 27, 2017. They performed ” One Step Closer ” alongside Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis .
Two days later, Manson announced he had “decided to part ways” with bassist Twiggy, after a rape allegation was made against Twiggy by his former girlfriend, Jack Off Jill vocalist Jessicka ; for the rest of the tour, Juan Alderete (formerly of Racer X and The Mars Volta ) joined.
He was cleared to perform by doctors in time for the next show in San José, Costa Rica on 23 October, although his illness forced the band to temporally remove a few songs from their setlist, and to have Deris, Hansen and Gerstner support him more vocally.
The band’s founding guitarist, Daisy Berkowitz, died on October 22, 2017, at the age of 49;