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Daron Malakian. Holy fuck. Yes. Considering he wrote 99% of SOAD's material, I'm extremely curious on how this will sound. I hope they don't just have him do vocals or a guitar solo, I hope they had let him actually get involved with the song's creation. That guy is a crazy talented songwriter.

"I also always thought BITS sounded like the most "MTM-like" track on ATS as well..." My recent theory is that (hear me out) maybe they had worked on BITS during MTM, and that is when the song idea was conceived and everything, but it was scrapped for some unknown reason and replaced with What I've Done. If I recall, What I've Done was the last song finished for the album. They both have the same chord progression, maybe they decided on which to choose so they don't have two eerily similar songs? And threw BITS into the pot for the following album. Just my opinion/question.

I hear slight reverb. More reverb wouldn't of done much on these vocals other than accentuate the cracking and strain, and would've only made the mix less solid and sloppy. I'm assuming he meant layers as in backing vocals, which I agree on. There is a huge absence of them on this song. Notice how much better he sounds with backing vocals on the parts that have them. And I also guarantee these vocals are NOT unedited, there is basic correction throughout. It is simply more raw than we are used to, and I kind of like it.

I mean "crushed" as in it's so "loud" that it "clips" the audio and it starts distorting from using compressors/limiters while in the mastering stage. When you compress, you lose dynamics and typically sound quality, but you are able to make the song louder and more in you face without having the listener having to manually turn up the volume. Everything is so loud in the mix you can barely hear the bass line, but it isn't terrible. It compliments some parts of the song.

I just ran the song through Audacity to learn some of the guitar parts, and I noticed the wavelength is CRUSHED all to hell. I understand the genre needs to be in your face and loud, but I just hope this album doesn't fall victim to the Loudness war; however, nothing can get as bad as Break The Cycle by Staind.

I found it on Mediafire immediately. Could be someone f'ing with us, but a couple of days ago LPA were talking about "Straonit" and wondering what it meant.

What makes me happy about this being the lead single is.. a lead single is used to promote the album. This song has a blend of melodic and heavy. I see the album having much heavier songs, and much softer songs, and this being the bridge in the middle. New album name is "Straonit"? My download claims that is the name of the album.

I think so. I feel they may have wanted it to be raw. They let his voice crack here and there which I do like, but he literally sounds like he is dying in some parts.

Chester sounds incredibly raspy and strained to me.

I like the verse and all, but you said it perfectly. It basically makes the song impossible to play live in full form. I doubt they'd bring him around the whole tour for this song (unless he did more with them)

I'm on an iPhone 4 and it plays perfectly fine for me.

Yeah.. it sounds okay, but I didn't want a collaboration.

Could've done without the additional vocals by whoever that was.

Holy SHIT this is awesome.

What do you guys think the announcement of tomorrow will be about? I'm hoping a new song or a release date to a song with a 30 second clip or something of a chorus.

I just hope they didn't completely ditch their simpler, melodic side for nothing but thrash. I don't want them to try too hard. The preview sounded like shit IMO.

I don't know if I like this. Maybe this was the demo of the notes we saw? (Thrash intro)

This is pretty exciting.

He's awesome, and so laid back. After he's done teaching us, I usually come up to his desk and we talk about music and computers. He introduced me to A Perfect Circle and other bands and I gave him some names to listen to; we basically figured out we like really similar things. He says he likes LP's first two albums (go figure) and he's really interested in all of the buzz for their new album. For LP, I hope to God they don't make the Mall soundtrack sound anything like their upcoming studio album. I would love Reanimation-esque stuff on the soundtrack with huge string layers (David Campbell?), like.. very cinematic. Like it's suppose to be as a soundtrack. And for the new album, I'd love anything. I'm really looking forward to the "heavy" that keeps going around. I just hope they don't try too hard, and hopefully they make stuff the band can play live.

My Pre Calculus/Trigonometry teacher (he's into heavy music) said he heard a radio station say that they are going to have a lot of different styles of songs on the album, and will shortly be releasing the album title. Take this however you would like.

Yeah, it's coming soon, but we literally know nothing on how it'll sound other than it SEEMS like it's going to be a more organic "raw" album, but that's all speculation from small interviews we are given. None of the members (that I know of) have said what the direction of the album is, they just say they're constantly in the studio and having fun. Hell, they probably still don't even know what it'll all sound like. In my opinion, (not trying to offend anyone) I find naming an album without knowing anything of it's composition redundant and stupid. I say leave that to the people who are actually doing the work.

Agreed. Also, Chester has been around STP for a little while, so maybe that'll also mean something in terms of his lyrical content and singing styles for their new album.

Listening to "In The End" on the radio as a 6 year old, it was awesome and I immediately started liking them, but being six I didn't exactly have favorites, I was still drowned in Backstreet Boys and NSync. When I was in 7th grade, I fully geeked out and got into them again and here I am. I never looked back, the music did mentally help me through the "stress" of middle school/high school with my depression and other issues, just like the lyrics were intended to.

Does anyone know if the band is on bad terms with Don Gilmore? I'm not the type to look though 1000 interviews to know this, i just want to know since they don't have to work with him anymore. I know Chester got mad at him from Don telling him to rewrite lyrics and he ended up with some of the lyrics to "One Step Closer".

Someone asked Rob on Facebook during his chat "Hi Rob! We already know the opinions from Mike and Chester about it.. So I'm interested to know yours..How would you describe the new material that the band is composing? Will you have a more active role in it?" and he said "Yes, we've been working on new music and I'm personally very excited about the direction of the new album. Its hard to tell exactly how its going to turn out at this time but we've been spending a lot of time together in the studio and I've done a lot of drumming over the last month. I would definitely say live drums have a more active role in what we are doing." Good to hear, right? Also, two of his favorite songs to perform live are Somewhere I Belong and No More Sorrow.