LaunchDaily
4/13/2012
Linkin Park's new album, its fifth studio effort, will arrive this June, according to a new interview with the band at Spin.com. The new disc will follow up 2010's A Thousand Suns, which split fans and critics with its experimental electronic direction. This time around, the band says it's taking some elements of what it did on A Thousand Suns and applying them to the sound of earlier records like Hybrid Theory and Meteora.
Singer Chester Bennington explained, "On the last two albums, 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 nu-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."
The new disc is once again produced by Rick Rubin, who also worked with Linkin Park on A Thousand Suns.
The first single from the yet-to-be-titled disc, called "Burn It Down," will arrive at radio stations on Monday (April 16th). Spin described the track as "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."
Other tracks previewed by Spin included "Lost In The Echo," "In My Remains," "Castle Of Glass" and "I'll Be Gone."
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