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I don't know how to be honest. Great to get this track in HQ finally. Loved the video.

First impression: It's a good album with more variety than what I expected. It has hard hitting moments that are well executed. Let's see how it develops on further playthroughs. I will circle back to this thread at some point with scores for each track. Standouts so far (singles not included): Casualty, IGYEIH and Good Things Go

A two album cycle thing sounds interesting. Maybe they do the rock stuff now and another release next year with not so rock stuff.

Ouch. It could be the fans, but it surely seems like it. That's... not a good look.

I don't see why Brad, a studio-only member now, should select songs for the rest of them to play live.

I just saw some small excerpt from the book (I think?) and it was literally nothing new or unknown. Just info you'd find on the internet/Linkinpedia. Can't say if that goes for the rest of the book, but it lowered my expectations.

This gets thrown around a lot and I have to preface that I don't think the following personally, but the argument can be made that Rob doesn't "owe" "us" anything, he "owes" "us" everything. Throughout their whole career, the band always stated how grateful they were for their fans and how without us there wouldn't be a band. That sentiment got repeated again and again through stuff like LPU letters (if I recall correctly, there is even one written by Rob, where he states exactly that). I think it is not far off to expect SOME form of gratitude for the ride towards the fans after everything. Again, he has his reasons and doesn't have to communicate them to the fans, but SOMETHING after 20+ years of being in this band and getting loved by millions would just... be a decent thing to do. So, yeah, there might be reasons for why it is like it is, there might be none: everything about Rob and his departure is largely speculative. But I wouldn't have imagined that a parting member of Linkin Park would just vanish without a goodbye at the very least.

He was part of this band since forever. Yes, he never was the most social guy in the band, but my god, you act like just saying thank you to the fans for all these years is an outlandish thing to ask for. To me, it's a decent thing to do for not only the fans of the band, but also for his fans. Providing closure, not raising a dozen question marks. He doesn't have to justify his decision, obviously. But it's by large standard procedure to put a statement out when someone leaves. Either by the band and/or the parting member. I mean, it has been almost 20 years for them together. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's totally fine if you (or anyone else) is cool with him just noping out. But I agree to disagree on that one.

Yeah, it's super strange that Rob didn't say goodbye to us fans. A small written statement would have been enough and the decent thing to do. That leads me to believe that things got messy somewhere down the road. But that's obviously as speculative as the overall narrative that gets thrown around of him not continuing because of Chester being gone.

I just watched bits and pieces of the show, but yeah, her voice had some unfortunate cracks and she does the same in those moments like what she did on the live stream: quickly point her mic towards the fans.

Ok, I see. Thanks for the info...

Could you elaborate a bit on that? Backing track for the music, vocals? I didn't catch anything but that means shit

Personally, I prefer them leaving out OML of the set. Also, Mike taking over some vocal duties here and there sounds super good. Well executed from what I've seen so far.

Haha, yeah, fair enough. But you can find solace in the fact that you probably will listen to all those songs for years to come anyway. So just go crazy and enjoy them

Wow, haven't heard these names in a while. Yeah, they were moderately successful over here. I'm on board with them dropping some songs before the release. It gives more songs from the album the chance to shine. If someone doesn't want to listen to it, just don't and wait for the album release.