Fleur de Lys

Cool that Brad is wearing a jew hat. He is jewish so it makes sense.

Great performance. Chester sounds amazing here. I don't know if they used autotune though. Good mix too.

Wow. These recordings feel so claustrophobic, because of the stupid mixing. They should leave some of the crowd in the mix, and blend the onboard recordings with recordings from mics in the crowd, to give the instruments that reverb-feel they get in a real live situation. This feels like LP are performing infront of an imaginary crowd. Looks incredibly silly and lonely when Chester sings infront of the crowd in the end of Breaking The Habit. And that last "tonight" by the crowd haha, sounds so stupid, it was all ready being turned down in the mix while it was yelled. Thank god Pooch is better at this.

I'm beginning to suspect Chester's drum part on the triggers to be fake and sampled. It's only obivous when you keep your eyes on him the entire breakdown. Especially the end. He ends with the same fill that he played earlier, but this time it can't be heard. Plus, he missed that same fill just before. And in the break where he dosn't play, it dosn't look like he comes in at the right spot again. I don't know, I'm not sure yet. Hard to explain, you guys should go see for yourself.

No he shouldn't. Harmonies makes the verses a lot more interesting (when they work), plus Chester is doing the exact same thing on the record. Why shouldn't he do that live? Proof of this? Nothing looks sampled to me? It is not tight enough for that. In my opinion, that is a great and very energic part of the song. You can definitely see that the band loves playing it, compared to some of the old stuff. And it looks and sounds awesome. I don't think they pretend playing anything right now. Now they even play the New Divide bridge live too.

Would be awesome!

Well, I could. They can't turn the PA louder than the specific country's rules allow them to, so it's not their fault.

Exactly. It was the setlist above. It was really really good. Chester was full of energy tonight. Check out Given Up when it comes up. I hoped for the setlist with Messenger, Papercut and APFMH (in whatever way), and that's what I got. Nice. The crowd went nuts when they got into the bridge of APFMH in Bleed it Out! It was crazy!

I just came back from the show. Awesome concert! One of the best I've been to. It was the setlist containing Papercut and Messenger. And APFMH first verse and bridge was in Bleed It Out. The only thing I missed was more crowd-interaction.

Cut Mike out of the picture and put him into the banner on the top of the site. That will probably boost sales haha.

Haha lol at Mike dropping his capo at the end of Bleed it Out. APFMH was a disaster over Bleed It Out, and I don't think he will do it again. But it was still good fun. Chester sounds very nice here.

Ah, this is what they Linkin Park sounds like without clicktrack. Yes, way out of time. I believe the reason why Mike called it "unrehearsed" is really because they had no clicktrack to follow, like they always have, so he was a afraid they might mess up some places. They know that song to death, so it had nothing to do with the lyrics, chords, patterns etc. Only tightness. That's why Brad messed up slowing down in the intro too. But really, I don't blame them, I know what it's like to play live. Chester couldn't hear Rob in the whisper section, so only when he looked at him, he could follow him. That's not his fault. Brad where distracted by the crowds untight clapping, which always is a nice and appreciated response, though it's very annoying related to tightness. Overall, it was still awesome.

My favourite song is In The Darkness because I love listening to it while I have sex.

Yes, I agree. With a site like this, the truth is that you often reduce your opinion of a show to being based on the setlist alone. I know I did in the past. That's really a shame, because it may have been so much different than you think in your little head. Despite a bad setlist, the energy could have been awesome, or it could have sucked, even though it was a good setlist. I know this is true. I was at the Skive show in Denmark in 2008 and I was hoping to not get that exact setlist we got. And the show was great. I know you are aware of this. You all know that it's not only about the setlist. But just don't forget that it can mean a lot less than we really go around thinking sometimes.

It was When They Come For Me.

I think what Mike is doing in this song is a hybrid of rapping and singing. And it's fucking awesome. I haven't heard anything like it before. The funny thing is, the harmony Joe sings can clearly be heard in the end of the song, and he is waaaay better than Chester and Mike is at it sometimes. But I must say, the whole band improved their singing very much since last time in the new live situations, including Chester. And I am very optimistic about the new songs live, I was afraid that major parts of the songs would just be backing tracks, because the album is so electronic, but I think they've avoided that so far. Awesome.

Well, didn't any of you hear the interview from KROQ breakfest show? He joked, sitting at the keyboard, putting that exact effect over his voice, saying things that were definately not on the album haha. It's obviously an effect you can turn on and off. So it's not lip sync in my opinion.

Hmm. Everything except the gang vocals on The Catalyst was pitch perfect. I wonder how much they edited it. If it is fo realz though, hands down, they really improved a lot on the singing since the last time. No matter how good they sing, I think that the performances from ATS so far have been very solid, a pleasure to listen to.

That's because he's basically just an octave above version of David Draiman. They're not identical at all, but the way he sings is very Disturbed to me. Especially the rythms.

I love the agression. Awesome song. Chester sounds so much like Disturbed in this song.

How the hell do all you guys know that Mike can't sing? Ever heard of vocal training? You would all be amazed if you knew how much you can develop a voice over a short period of time. Mike is not stupid, he would not be singing a lot if he knew he would not be able to pull it of live. Plus, Chester said not long ago that Mike has "developed" a strong vocal.

It might not even be the wrong term. They might have used auto-tune, but then it's for the effect and not pitch-correction. I don't like the sound of voice-effects either, only a little plate, reverb, delay, and such.

I'm sorry, but if they were just using the effect for pitch correction, you wouldn't be able to hear it at all. One of my local bands for instance, used a lot of auto-tune in their songs, recorded in a little non-proffesionel studio, and it's impossible to hear. So once and for all people: IF LP JUST WANTED TO CORRECT THE PITCH, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HEAR IT! --> WHAT YOU HEAR ON ATS IS AN EFFECT. If you want a link to the local band I'm talking about, I'll post it. Non of you will be able to hear the autotune, and it's even just in some half-assed, non-proffesionel studio.

I like the song It's pretty awesome. They finally did something that's really new, genre-busting if you will.

Auto tune, pitch correction, call it whatever you want. If the artist wants it to be impossible to hear that they fixed the wrong notes, it's easy to do, and it's been that for years. Therefore, it's the artists choice if they want that robotic voice, it's more of an effect, cause if they just wanted to just sing clean, even though they could not in real life, they could hide the autotune much better.