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From Chester's first verse on there is guitar in all of Waiting for the end, it's not keyboard and you can see Mike playing the same thing live. It's just drowned in a lot of delay and reverb to the point it resembles a keyboard. The solo and outro Brad plays live are also guitar in the studio, there is even a video somewhere of them recording the solo(I guess it's in the meeting of ATS). The catalyst has live bass before the first minute hits and the guitar starts in the "god save us everyone" verse. Not gonna argue about the other ones, but there is also Iridescent there to count as instrument playing. Kinda like half of Little Things is just chillout with little instrument work, and most songs feature no Joe at all.

As a huge metal fan, I'm surprised Mike knows about Meshuggah, I guess I didn't know that interview

The messenger and Jornada del muerto are the only ones I mentioned that don't have the whole band playing. Plus, Minutes to midnight already had songs like that anyway.

A thousand suns had a lot of awesome playing. Burning in the skies has one of the most awesome guitar work of their whole career, The catalyst, Robot boy and Jornada all have crazy keyboard solos, The messenger is all about real playing and singing, When they come for me has half the band playing drums for it to work live... I could keep going if I wanted

They should have a song with Chester singing the verses and Mike the choruses

I'm wondering if this is gonna be the most minimalistic sounding album, we already know Heavy and One more light kinda follow that idea

The amount of guitar you can clearly hear in the instrumental version caught me off guard, listening to the normal one I thought it was only present in the last chorus. The guitar part in the second verse reminds me of Iridescent's clean guitar.

The second track will probably be the clean version, I would bet

It's funny how Mike says Heavy bears the core sound of the record and then a few hours later he says there are many different genres in it Reminds me of an interview where he said A thousand suns is not a political album, and I'm just like "oookay gonna pretend that's true"

My only complaints are about the no intro thing and that they could have made the bridge have something new. I love the melodies and the emotional vocal delivery, the lyrics are good and hit you in the feelings, and Rob is great in that bridge ending. I'd have the guitar a bit louder at the end, but that's just personal preference. Great song, pretty much a brainworm in a good sense.

Those versions were amazing, and Mike really surprised me in Burn it down.

Linkinparkbr said we should stay tuned to their twitter today, so that's what it means! FREAKING OUT MODE HAS BEGUN By the way, isn't it more likely to be the single cover? Or was it confirmed to be the album's?

None of their albums follows only one style, aside from hysteria or stupidity why would anyone think they'd go full pop? It just makes no sense. Even if it has some pop songs, I don't think they'd make a whole album out of that. And I'm fucking hyped for it.

Just passing by to say I think that shit sounds good

I like that "airy" effect in the background, sounds kinda haunting. The overall vibe reminds me of Welcome, but there might be more sounds in the final version, since they still didn't have the drums recorded in that clip.

February 21 would actually fit with the triple 7 theory

I think the whole band will appear in the video, but probably only Chester and Kiiara are singing, so that's why they are the only ones to have doubles.

This video puts down this idea of Joe not contributing musically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00FBAdjlF4g

Completely agree with you, Living things wasn't even out and I was already kinda bothered by this

I personally love The hunting party, and I think most people usually get stuck with just calling it heavy and don't give credit for the diversity it has. New metal, electronic rock, prog rock, punk, you have all of that and more there, and even the new metal ones sound fresh with the solos and other new stuff.

Since this first clip is just a piano part plus those quiet vocals, that was probably the first version of the song and they will show how it evolved. I'm excited, the harmony sounds beautiful.

They released Until it's gone through Zane Lowe, right? I remember waiting to listen to it for the first time in a live transmission

I also believe they dragged it a bit too much, but doing it like that would be bad too. I think there should be a middle ground, but now it's really coming with all those hints so I'm excited.

Just saw their personal accounts too, the beast is coming haha

That colourful picture on Instagram is an edited version of the "Happy Birthday Rob" picture, which looks like trolling, but they are surely building it for a close release. I remember Mike commenting once that they were taking a day to talk about artwork and merch stuff, so that part must have been ready before the album audition mentioned by Chester.