Your wildest LP conspiracy

[Trumtram]

I, for example, firmly believe that the rap verses in "Figure.09" were used because Chester wasn't able to record his intended singing parts at the end of the cycle alongside SIB and FTI because he still was too sick.

 

I can't exactly recall all the details to this assumption from the top of my head, though. But there is a rationale behind it!

 

What are your little LP conspiracies. You all have them... do you?

 

[xxHybridXeroxx]

Mine is that Already Over was released as a decoy or a fake out to prevent leaks of the LP comeback from happening. 

[MMM]

- That they threw the entire album in the advanced stage in the trash before ATS. Heavy but more experimental than THP. 

 

- The initial plan for the album after LT was to be even more electronic than LT, something more EDM oriented.

[Soeffingnaive92]

They had issues with Tom Morello/his label and that led to Drawbar being what it is and nothing more, because come on you have Tom Freakin Morello to jam with and all you come up with is a really good instrumental track that you could have easily  done without him. 

[bloodbath]

21 hours ago, xxHybridXeroxx said:

Mine is that Already Over was released as a decoy or a fake out to prevent leaks of the LP comeback from happening. 

Some people here though that Already Over hinted the end of Linkin Park, so I'm with you on this one. It worked as a decoy whether Mike likes it or not. 

[Soeffingnaive92]

22 hours ago, bloodbath said:

Some people here though that Already Over hinted the end of Linkin Park, so I'm with you on this one. It worked as a decoy whether Mike likes it or not. 

Totally, I mean it came out in late 2023 when LP 2.0 was already a thing and FZ was taking shape, so I am convinced AO was a way to deceive the fans attention from rumors/leaked news and stuff, like “Mike is doing his own thing now, he’s busy”

[AceWav]

I have nothing to add, but reading these are very entertaining! I wonder what Chester's verse parts on figure.09 sounded like. 

[RayGun4200]

On 4/4/2026 at 3:03 PM, Soeffingnaive92 said:

Totally, I mean it came out in late 2023 when LP 2.0 was already a thing and FZ was taking shape, so I am convinced AO was a way to deceive the fans attention from rumors/leaked news and stuff, like “Mike is doing his own thing now, he’s busy”

And the mere fact he was playing AO and LP songs live with other people. Weren't people saying one them was gonna be the new singer or something? If I recall right Idk lol.

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

Robs at home watching Brazil 2024 cancelled film.

[RYG4R]

original sequel to Meteora was to complete the trilogy, Hence, everything got delayed after the dispute with the label in 2005. In which, the band decided to discard to original Meteora sequel and just create from the scratch ---> MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT came to life. The band probably forgot in the long run until they dug up some of the demos for Meteora 20.

[kiq fLP]

IN MY REMAINS has a biblical inspiration. The working title of the song is ONEFORTY, which came for the Book of Mark (second book of the New Testament, as IMR is the track #02 of Living Things), chapter one, versicle forty. It reads:

A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”

 

 

Chorus of In My Remains:

Now in my remains
Are promises that never came
Set the silence free
To wash away the worst of me