vinifeijo

Let me tell you from the perspective of someone from a small city from a 3rd world country: WE LOVE TRIBUTE BANDS. Or tribute anything, we love "impersonators" of anything (football players, movie actors...) If that wasn't an option, we would never have a chance to see anything similar to the greatest acts in the world. Tribute bands are a way to fulfill that desire of seeing something we can only dream watching from a screen. We see them as a gimmick obvisouly, and it's so fun! Just don't take it so seriously. There are BILLIONS of people living away from the main centers were artists tour around. There's no such thing as "World Tour", lots os countries and cities don't have a chance. So, i guess the situation here is that HT got big! Maybe way too big that if feels like they are replacing Linkin Park and i'm pretty sure the guys from HT would never ever even think about it, the public put them in that spotlight, the public is commenting all those awkward things in their videos on youtube. The band itselft is doing a homage and making money from doing it in a great way! They are working. Maybe they crossed the line of a Tribute band because they got big, that i agree. It just shows how there's a big demand for LP out there.

The "ooohs" feel so dry and raw, like they removed some of the layer effects it had. Someone opened the file to edit something and export and fucked up removing something they shouldn't had. The "light" thing totally sounds like another take.

2025/26 is the perfect window for LP's comeback. 27 we will have the MTM20. Then again 28/29 the new material can come around until ATS20. It's a back and forth between "old" and "new" LP.

Very cool! Thanks for putting it out for us. Would be so fun to have a light-hearted episode about "worst choices" in their career, like the GATS music video and such.

not having a new modern mix for QWERTY was a wasted potential. Anyways, many casual people will have their minds blown.

i bet he heard someone talking about Mike's Already Over Sessions and got all mixed up.

Oh, nice! The band does deserve a big biographic material.

Is there any sign of QWERTY turning out into a single?

There's a whole genre right now that's basically early Linkin Park. All those new "post-metalcore" bands are clearly heavy-influenced. Just play the playlist "The Core" on Spotify and you will basically hear modern-faster-Linkin Park.

Isn't it a bit sad how we hype so much for a new release, then 1 week after it's realeased the magic is gone? It's a bittersweet feeling, like i'm taking things for granted. Best example of this was Pictureboard, i think. 2 decades craving for it, and after the release it all just gets behind like it never happened or meant much.

Everything feels rushed, really. The MS Already Over campaign felt like it would last longer (the first Studio Sessions had a 1month interval between them, and the 2 or 3 last ones had 1 week). The Critters thing (his website game) also ended abruptly and some prizes are still to be acknowledged and delivered. Definitely something odd happened here. But hey, let's enjoy! Thank you so much for releasing one more song with Chester ❤️ that's all that matters.

FF is a good song, good energy there. Feels redemptive. Will probably be a mainstream success.

Qwerty was a surprise. I'm curious to see how a heavy song will perform within the mainstream. Would be cool a new Qwerty mix! About the artwork, the album cover is ok. A little bit lazy, but fine. The Friendly Fire one we have is weird. Weird color, weird type that don't seem to harmonize. And the ugly elypse element thing (that i totally remember Maddocks tried some stuff like that in the past, in those scrapped logos and elements for the past album cycles) About the THP missing, i can totally see a 10 year deluxe edition celebration incoming with a proper release and better marketing campaign than the original release.

would be cool to have a 10 year re-release of THP. Since the original marketing campaign was awful, they have an opportunity to reissue the album with 2 or 3 b-sides.

Band members, management and label are fully aware that leaving this blank space in the 14th track would create some mayhem in the hardcore fanbase. Do they have something to live up to the hype they are creating? The artwork in all of this feels so amateur it doesn't indicate anything big coming up. But we already have the confirmation of Friendly Fire. Odd stuff.