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Alrighty, let's make one, and see one year later if I still feel this way This may be controversial but 1. Hybrid Theory 2. A Thousand Suns 3. From Zero 4. Minutes to Midnight 5. Meteora 6. The Hunting Party 7. Living Things 8. One More Light One More Light was never my thing, and Living Things has kind of an identity crisis going on, so From Zero automatically beats those 2 for me. THP is a stronger effort, but has too many flaws for its own good, so From Zero tops that one too. Meteora is tricky, it's a classic, but I feel its production has aged a bit poorly, and eventually I believe FZ songwriting to be stronger. MTM was the trickiest. There are many legendary moments on it, but on the other hand, the tracklist has always been a mess, and the record is maybe a bit too loaded with mid-tempo ballads HT and ATS stay untouched. FZ momentarily lands at 3!

There are elements in common for sure, but, in my opinion, not enough to say Casualty is a lesser version of War or Victimized. I've read it elsewhere too, but I don't really agree with that view. Casualty is based more on groove than pace, at least in the verse, and I feel the novelty of raspy Mike is being underestimated. I understand that argument better with HITC and Faint, because those two are almost identical at many levels.

Honestly, I don't think War / Victimized / Casualty are that similar, beyond them being short, punk-inspired, and screamy. Victimized is a weird folk-hip-hop-electronic-hardcore mix, War is straight-up an old-school hardcore punk song, and Casualty is a modern hardcore punk-industrial jam. They're different enough tracks to stand on their own merits, in my opinion. Otherwise, every pop-rock LP anthem would be alternative versions of each other (WID, ND, BID, IBG, TTM, BS, PTB, etc..) ^^

Very well said.

Yeah, I didn't vibe with the OML cycle at all, be it the promotion, the reception, the live shows, or the record. Even down to the pictures with the cowboy hats and whatnot, totally not my thing ^^' But I think the band was having a good time with the tour, so there is that.

It's hard to say after barely 6 days, but one thing I'm feeling mildly confident about is that FZ is more cohesive and consistent as a record than the last 3 ones.

Getting stuff like this is pretty dope. I'm sure some chunks will be pretty relevant for Linkin Pedia as well

This gives such great vibes ahaha

Now that they had one night to warm up, the pit needs to mosh proper to Casualty. This is the moment. Never has an LP song being asking for it so much.

Probably some setlist switches tonight, but I don't expect big surprises (which is fine:) ) I could see APFMH, and I'm hoping for KTTK.

That's freaking awesome. Can't wait to catch-up and watch the proshot later this weekend

The album is great. First no-fillers/no-weak tracks record since ATS, for me. The way Mike and Emily share vocal duties on 90% percent of the tracks, alternating back-and-forth and between different singing styles, rapping styles, yelling, screaming, whispering, it's really what this band was always all about. It is what makes record like HT and ATS so special. It's great to have that chemistry back. There are no moments where I felt like "ok, here comes the Mike song", "ok here comes the Emily song". It's all fluid and constantly evolving. The album feels like a journey through LP discography, but yet, it has a very strong distinct identity on its own. There is no LP record that sounds like From Zero. And it achieves that cohesive tone despite being a very diverse record in term of genres. It's genius. The songs are strong, all of them. TEM is an anthem that deserves all its praise and more CTB is a grower, the more you listen to it, the better it gets. It's catchy af. HITC is super fun banger OEO is super vibey and evolves quite a bit through its short run time, and Emily is awesome in it Casualty fucking rips Overflow is mindblowingly good, love the atmosphere Two Faced is the band giving their sweetest tribute to their beginnings yet, and they aced it 100% Stain is an earworm IGYEIH is a banger, reminds me of Tool at times GTG is stunning and emotionally super intense I loved my first few listens. Welcome back LP.

Love it. This is their most badass video in ages.

What a fucking huge tour. Great support acts in Europe as well. Will try to secure spots for London and Frankfurt.

Maaaan, just by the look of the thumbnail, I can tell this is gonna be a fun one ahah

Please, please, please, play KTTK! A proshot of it in Brazil 'd be fucking awesome. Realistically though, expecting Two Faced and no THP song.

This is legit one the most disjointed hilarious review I've read of the album But glad you enjoyed it! It's cool to see such a good overall reception from everyone.

If this songs sounds like what I think it'll sound like, this is a genius move to release it now, right before the album drops. Will get the mainstreamed pumped and eager to listen to the rest, when they figure it's out one day later.

Some of those arena's / stadium are massive. Wow.

Brace yourself, we're in for a treat!

I am not sure the band will play other songs from THP, but I think Emily would fit well on War. Always cool when LP plays in a new country, happy for all the Colombian fans out there!

US crowds are usually much milder/static than european ones, not even to mention Asia and South-America. Pretty sure the band is aware of it. I can promise you the pit in Hamburg in September was giving the band some proper moshpit love.

That's awesome they played AFN!! Only 2 more from THP to go, even though realistically I don't expect them to be. KTTK and AFN both were possible candidates, War and especially MTG less so. Not caving in for Casualty, only a few more days to go

Come on "All For Nothing", here is your chance for it to be for something. It'd be cool, but realistically speaking, I don't think they have much flexibility to adapt the live sets, with all the production/lights stuff. So either it has been planned for long, either it's probably not happening.

All the tracks honestly But I am especially curious about how Cut the Bridge is going to link TEM and HITC. I haven't read the track by track review so I have zero idea what it is going to be like, which is fun.