Linkin Park isnt actually writing a story, they just want the album to sound like da album all together have this overall feeling but idk. like mike said on rollingstone "This isn't necessarily a record that tells a story about a character or anything like that, but I do hope the record has a sonic identity, from beginning to end" also they're tryin to achieve a new cutting edge sound that is different but sound really really really good that is whats holdin them back
but yeah we should erase all these concepts out of our minds... lol