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since this is an unofficial release, and links are being posted, am I able to ask for an email of the files? I am on campus internet and they monitor for filesharing sites =(

The Catalyst performance plus Justin Bieber looking like a dumbass? Why are you all saying these VMA's suck? =P

Don't you diss Taylor Swift. She's hot. and... she's hot.

I didn't preorder, was gonna pick up a special edition at best buy But I have no car on campus =(

I think Condemned is the worst song, I just can never get into it. Fire - I like a lot, but do agree that the lyrics are corny. My Suffering - amazing

I saw Janelle Monaé, who's featured on one of the tracks, in concert a few weeks ago, she failed. I had listened to some of her stuff on youtube beforehand, and thought it was decent. Hearing the live set, it was obviously she used an extreme amount of autotune or something because she was horrible. However, "This is a Cold War" was good.

amazing video but I thought the line was "blood of innocents burning in the skies" ? guess I'm wrong then?

That's what I was thinking at first, but now that I've looked at it more, it stands very well as its own track. That's the same quote in which he compares it to the radiance of a thousand suns, right? (I know he's at least the same guy) If anything, I'd merge but keep it The Radiance and drop The Requiem.

Astat = win Question - On Iridescent, during the end with the chorus vocals, am I hearing guitar? It sounds to me like BIO's style guitar, but I can't focus on it because I zone out into the awesomeness of the song... As far as playing this song live, I think the songs have potential to be played on guitars rather than synth, if so, this tour will be epic, have possibly the hardest rock sound to it LP's ever done.

damn straight it stays, I forgot to add that.

with all due respect, I can't take any of your posts seriously while I can see Chicken Little dancing I really like this album, way more than MTM, however, you make great points in your review, one of the few true ones I've read here. As a Linkin Park album, not the best, as an album, it's pretty bitchin' . I also think the tracks all together as a single experience makes it that - an experience. Final note : Haterz gonna hate

Ok, after two full listens, I've come to this conclusion Favorite album : Meteora, ATS = #2 Favorite Song : Iridescent Least Favorite : When They Come for Me Wake > Requiem for Intro Fallout : sorta pointless and not up to par in quality BITS : epic Blackout : Was worried about this after preview, not bad Messenger : Powerful. That is all. Overall experience : It was seriously amazing, everything comes together very well, even parts I didn't like had their place Final thought : This is exactly what I wanted, new. Yes MTM was "new" but it just seemed to lack the Linkin Park quality of music. ATS has the same quality of HT and M. Final grade : 9/10 on LP scale (M = 10, HT = 8, MTM = 6-7) 12/10 on general music scale This has potential to be on my list of "love every track on album" list, still deciding

and I'm stuck in class on a network that watches for File sharing sites fuuuuuuuuuuuuu.....

But he kinda is for making an article that is more of a rant than a review. Very little is said about the songs themselves outside of him saying they're bad.

Personally, the reporter sounds like a prissy little "I want Old Skoolz LP back" casual listener. I'm surprised they didn't type it in all caps to show their rage.

You forgot "/flame"

Why do I get the feeling we will see soon a thread like this: "Blackout is the 'New School' reincarnate of Figure.09...." that entails a story of a personified Figure.09 fighting hordes of Nazis and other bad guys, in the end, sacrificing itself, and, like a phoenix rises from the ashes, Blackout, too, rose from the ashes.

To be honest, I don't like the clips. From what I've heard through them, the songs seem like they will be pretty damn awesome, I just think the clips aren't the best. i.e. - Waiting for the End preview was better than 30 second clip now.

"but in the end, it doesn't even " you fail at using "old-skool" LP lyrics to prove your point LP said ATS will be completely different than what we've heard before, the clips are enough to prove that much. Also You do realize that except for Empty Spaces, and the interludes, 30 seconds is a TINY TINY portion of the songs

I believe you mean to say "just imagine Chester going absolutely ape-shit...." I think a lot of audience participation on Blackout

This is what I've been hoping for. I've known LP will never do HT or M again, and I wasn't expecting ATS to be anything like HT, M, or MTM. The one thing I wanted was the quality put into HT and M that was missing in MTM, put into ATS. It's different, holding full judgment until I hear the album, but from what I've heard, LP delivered. Really looking forward to Iridescent

It's not just you. This shirt would've been so much cooler if it just had the fallout cover image. Or even at most the Linkin Park at the top. Making it into a box makes it look cheap

iTunes has the option "part of continuous album" I don't see the logic behind the Full experience....

that's Refugee by Tribal Ink think lower quality Linkin Park wannabes Don't You Push Me is a good song though, but that's about it along with Refugee

I don't know what to say, other than, "What the hell was that?"***** ****Other than pure epic epicness, of course