Linkin Park, is a roller coaster. Options

[sinktheunderground]

They're announcing the first single off the album today at some point. And info on when it'll get released.

[karmaworks]

Yeah it's "burn it down". Comes out on the 16th. They're saying it's a crazy heavy electronic song

[MNHHNGBFS]

2012 is the year for rock!! NEW NICKLEBACK N NEW LINCOLN PACK HURRAY

[Also Frightened]

lol

[YamsX1]

In this thread we see 10 pages of twenty-somethings talking about Linkin Park

[karmaworks]

I heard a really low quality leak of burn it down. I mean really low quality. All I can say is the chorus seems catchy and poppy though doesnt seem very energetic. I think I'll like it but if the whole album is like that then I'll be disappointed


http://nm4u.tumblr.com/post/20441314425/li...-song-low-quali

This post has been edited by karmaworks: Apr 3 2012, 10:45 PM

[Daniel]

It's a shame how downhill Linkin Park went after Hybrid Theory. That low quality stream sounds like a pop song that I'd hear in the charts.

[Silvers]

Meteora was a pretty sweet album, Minutes to Midnight was when I thought they were losing it

[Corporate_Nothing]

http://www.lpassociation.com/forums/showth...869#post1118869

This sounds like it was literally recorded with a calculator.

[karmaworks]

lol yea man it's really not even worth listening to

[karmaworks]

SoCal hard rock hybridists Linkin Park managed to confound cranky critics and loyal fans alike with 2010's A Thousand Suns. The ambitious concept album explored atomic Armageddon over music that drew comparisons to Radiohead and Pink Floyd, so it seemed a bit out of step to say the least. As it turns out, that record was part of a cycle initiated in 2007 when the six-piece first linked with producer Rick Rubin, who also helmed the band's as-yet-untitled fifth LP, due out in June.

"The very first question Rick asked when he met us was, 'What kind of record do you want to make?' " says singer Chester Bennington, 36, sitting at a diner-style booth in the spacious lounge at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood. "Our response was, 'Well, anything that doesn't sound like what we did before would be a good place to start.' And he was like, 'Great, because that's the only answer I would've accepted.' That sold us on working with him."

After creating the best-selling debut album of the aughts with 2001's Hybrid Theory, scoring a Grammy, and following that with the similarly sounding (and similarly successful) Meteora in 2003, Linkin Park were faced with a choice: change it up at the risk of losing it all, or keep doing the same thing while potentially becoming a caricature of themselves — an irrelevant holdover from nü-metal's moment in the sun. Thankfully, they decided on the former.

"People would be surprised to learn how much of a sense of humor we have about ourselves," says rapper-producer Mike Shinoda. "There are things we've done in our career that we wouldn't do now, but they felt right at the time. It's like opening up a drawer and finding an old pair of bell bottoms, going, 'Oh my God, I can't believe I went to school wearing that.' " Without missing a beat, Bennington chimes in: "But it was the shit back then!"

For their upcoming release, Linkin Park are switching it up yet again, but not in the way you'd expect for a band that recently blew peoples' expectations wide open. They're celebrating the success of the experiment by embracing their strengths, and mixing what they learned on that sonic walkabout with what the rest of us already know they're good at: heaving guitars, walls of textured electronics, and emotive lyrics that feel both deeply personal and somehow universal.

"On the last two albums," says Bennington, "if someone brought in a song that felt very 'Linkin Park,' we were like, 'Mm, let's move on.' We now know we have the skills and the tools to take those ideas and make them into what we’re actually looking for, as opposed to getting into it and discovering that it just sounds really nü-metal. That's always going to be gross to us, but we can take elements of that and reinvent the vibe, make it now and fresh."

Shinoda and Bennington played five of the new songs for SPIN and sure enough, they felt like an improvement on an old family recipe (albeit one you'd most likely use to piss off the rest of your family). "Lost in the Echo" featured a staccato guitar attack, tribal drums, crystalline keys and some brutal screams, but it also interweaved contemporary sub-bass boom and clangy industrial effects. "In My Remains" is both dark and triumphant, built for an arena at the end of days.

The melancholic "Castle of Glass" offers a steam-engine chug and a mountain of sound while Bennington sings about being but a small crack in the titular edifice, illustrating belonging and futility in the same stroke. On "I'll Be Gone," his metallic vocals come from a character who's either forced or chooses to leave home before the sun comes up. Amidst the lo-bit glitch and seismic stomp comes an unlikely cameo: strings courtesy of Arcade Fire arranger Owen Pallett.

"He's incredible," says Bennington, leaning back against the wall of the studio. "You send him notes and he's immediately like, 'I just sent you the track. Like, five minutes ago. It's done.' "

Last but not least, they cue up their upcoming single, "Burn it Down," a seared but still high-sheen slab of cross-pollinated pop driven by four-on-the-floor pump and the pulse of guitars and synths irreparably fused together. Shinoda delivers his bars with force and finesse, and joins Bennington to sing: "We're building it up to break it back down / We're building it up to burn it back down / We can't wait to burn it to the ground." Are they talking about a relationship? Music? Society?

"Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we’re onto something special," says Bennington. "That’s when the hair starts standing up. We don’t sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' We got a little more poetic, a little more colorful this time. A lot of the songs revolve around people — a drifter, or a soldier returning home, or a child finding his or her place in the family."

"Some of these songs started off really mellow," says Shinoda. "Some sounded very electro, and a few were folk, essentially. It's bizarre to remember that now, hearing what's so clearly a mix of all of our influences. Our tastes have gotten even broader since we started, if you can imagine that. It's like wrangling kittens." Bennington weighs in: "It's also what we've based our career on — that we have a little bit of something for everyone. That's been our little fountain of youth."

[karmaworks]

30 second sample of Burn It Down

http://www.sonic1029.com/2012/04/12/new-li...t-just-a-taste/

This post has been edited by karmaworks: Apr 12 2012, 09:19 PM

[Chewy]

Sounds like ass.

[Daniel]

lol what the fuck happened

[Silvers]

The band changed, that's what happened

[tonydub]

From the way the guy talks in that article/interview it sounds like all they did was take the half rock/half dubstep approach that Korn has already done with their last album. The 30 second clip is terrible too. Doesn't sound very dubsteppy, but definitely electronica.

[thedangeristowen]

http://mikeshinoda.com/

New album's called Living Things
Mike Shinoda posted a blog about why the band decided to abandon their old sound on the last few albums and how now they're starting to bring it back in for the new one.

This is going to be a very important album for them. Linkin Park will forever be my favorite band since I first heard them when I was 9, I'm 21 now. A Thousand Suns is my favorite of theirs, but I understand the fact that their last few albums have not been getting that much praise. They are still one of the biggest bands in the world, but the "A Thousand Suns" era of the band shows that their will ALWAYS be thousands of people going to all of their concerts wanting to hear all of the old songs, but at the same time they're probably losing fans with their shift in sound. You can pretty much get a good idea of how a well an album's doing just from reading TONS of people's comments about it over a few years. It's been 2 years now since A Thousand Suns was released, and from all the comments I have seen from everywhere, the album was the fans least favorite. But then again, a lot of those people are the one's who complain about how "they wish the band would sound like they use to." Now back to the beginning, this will be an important album for them because of the fact that they're using parts of their old sound in it. It will definitely bring people back in to Linkin Park, it will drive some away (those who preferred them to keep evolving and changing), and for those who love everything from the band, the album will probably please them to no end. If this album is a success (and this is not saying A Thousand Suns failed by any means) it will further more secure the spot of Linkin Park being one of the biggest bands in the world for as long as they stay a band. But if the album does the same as A Thousand Suns, then I'm starting to think that they will slightly lose more people as time goes on.

[karmaworks]

hate the album title "Living Things", then again i hated the cover of A Thousand Suns and it ended up being my favorite LP album

nu-metal is dead and has been dead. Im so glad the band actually wants to challenge themselves and try different things still.

This post has been edited by karmaworks: Apr 15 2012, 12:33 PM

[tonydub]

I still can't stand Chester's voice. That's my only complaint about this band.

[karmaworks]

june 26th is the day

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hear Burn It Down now:
http://burnitdown.linkinpark.com/

This post has been edited by karmaworks: Apr 15 2012, 11:13 PM

[Corporate_Nothing]

I don't want "nu metal" from Linkin Park. I just want some heartfelt, nuanced, aggressive moments and some meaty, interesting guitar riffs (as in, not just power chord progressions with a little noodley lead melody on top of it). That being said, I highly prefer the softer, radio-friendly moments of "Minutes to Midnight" to the aggressive songs like "Bleed It Out" and "Given Up." PUT ME OUT OF MY FUCKING MISERRYYYYYY

[karmaworks]

Track listing:

01 LOST IN THE ECHO
02 IN MY REMAINS
03 BURN IT DOWN
04 LIES GREED MISERY
05 I'LL BE GONE
06 CASTLE OF GLASS
07 VICTIMIZED
08 ROADS UNTRAVELED
09 SKIN TO BONE
10 UNTIL IT BREAKS
11 TINFOIL
12 POWERLESS

[disengage]

Tour dates for the Linkin Park/Incubus tour:

8/11 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live (no Incubus)
8/12 Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena (no Incubus)
8/14 Boston, MA @ Comcast Center
8/17 Camden, NJ @ Susquehana Bank Center
8/19 Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/21 Detroit, MI @ The Palace
8/22 Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
8/24 Chicago, IL @ First Midwest Bank
8/25 Indianapolis, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
8/27 Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Center
8/28 Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Pavillion
8/30 Denver, CO @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
9/5 Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
9/7 Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/10 San Diego, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

[sinktheunderground]

I'm bummed Incubus isn't going to be at the CT show. But that's fine, more time for LP. As for the new single, I love it. It's been on repeat all day for me.

[Exuvium]

That artwork looks sick. The single is pretty catchy and Mike's rap comes out of nowhere. I'm interested in hearing how the rest of the album sounds.