Linkin Park’s long-awaited third album “Minutes to Midnight” hit the stores today, and tomorrow members of the band will host a virtual party within Virtual MTV (vMTV) to meet with their fans and discuss their latest project.

Vocalist Chester Bennington and other band members will make special appearances at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT on Wednesday, May 16th in vMTV’s virtual version of Club Hyde, the trendy Hollywood Hills hotspot. To join the party, fans simply need to go to www.vmtv.com, download the free application, create their own stylized avatar and head over to the club to meet Bennington.

vMTV from MTV Networks’ Music Group is a collection of popular virtual worlds that bridge the gap between television programming and emerging virtual world space. Bennington will be represented in vMTV by a specially created avatar, allowing him to interact one-on-one with their fans around the world in an environment that replicates one of the hottest scenes in Hollywood, and will be joined by another band member in-world. The approach in vMTV represents just one of the new ways forward-thinking bands like Linkin Park are connecting with their fans.

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