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Thank god. I just thought it was hilarious how I made my little snide comment and in under a minute you come in with confirmation. I'm always happy when things like this happen, where somebody gets to be in the band that's always inspired them. Even though he's replacing a good friend and idol... If I'm being real though, I've always had a sort of wish that Chester would have been the new singer for Alice in Chains. Like, really badly I wanted that. Like- Oh, Chester is joining Alice in Chains, but the catch is Linkin Park is breaking up for good. I'd be like, shut the hell up and put out a remake of "I Stay Away" quick. That's how bad I would've wanted that. But STP is cool too. Chester belongs in a grunge band.

FUCK

Got to love people jumping on the "Chester Bennington is the new STP vocalist" bandwagon. Apparently performing on stage with and collaborating on one song with a band means you've joined it. I remember back in '04 when Jonathan Davis, Bert McCracken and Jay Z all joined Linkin Park. Move over, Slipknot.

The LP/Coheed and Cambria/Chiodos tour leaps to mind. I'm a Coheed fan though, and they played with Slipknot shortly after that so it does get stranger. Yeah. The Black Keys seem feasible only as headliner or co-headliner. Linkin Park has mainstream seniority but bottom line is The Black Keys are far more relevant.

Don't get me started on bands LP has toured with that were odd matches, and they worked out. Not enough I.

I just imagined Linkin Park + The Black Keys and now my nips are hard.

I'm aware that my bitching will have been an exercise in futility come April 1st when they inevitably announce LP but still.

I just realized. Isn't this thread "Got News?" material? I don't get what's with sites these days spreading rumors and speculation as news. Shame.

I kind of don't see them doing the same headliner two years back to back but who knows.

Linkin Park should have their music video privileges revoked. Holy shit.

My ideal tracklist for Minutes to Midnight is roughly this: 1. The Requiem 2. The Radiance 3. Burning in the Skies 4. Empty Spaces 5. When They Come For Me 6. Robot Boy 7. Jornada del Muerto 8. Waiting for the End 9. Blackout 10. Wretches and Kings 11. Wisdom, Justice, and Love 12. Iridescent 13. Fallout 14. The Catalyst And then instead of calling it "Minutes to Midnight", call it, "A Thousand Suns". And then throw those other 12 songs in the trash.

This thread is dumb and you should feel dumb.

Why is there talk of Chester leaving?

Not the song as a whole, but the line has a good bite when you know the background.

"Exit Through The Gift Shop: A Banksy Film" chronicles aspiring artist Thierry Guetta's introduction to the art world, meeting and apprenticeship with Banksy, and forays into the art scene himself as Mister Brainwash. The reference made in Until It Breaks; "I'm just a Banksy- you're a Brainwash- get the picture?" is probably Mike's best "boast" in any song I've heard. So if you want to get some background on that lyric, and watch a great documentary (or mockumentary, depending on who you ask- look into that after watching if you wish) while you're at it, give Exit Through the Gift Shop a try. On Netflix Instant On Hulu Plus

I honestly don't understand how people think Victimized is disjointed but Until it Breaks is great.

Castle of Glass, Victimized and Powerless win the album. Honorable mention to Until it Breaks, Lost in the Echo and Skin to Bone. I already have liked Burn it Down for some time. Lies Greed Misery is pretty good too. The rest needs to grow on me and probably will.

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter = Badass. Powerless = Favorite song on the album. That combination = What the fuck why.

Change in fun between doing it when it leaks vs when it's released = 0. Zero. It reminds me of people who say sex is so much better if you wait until you're married. Right. No, he lost his "argument" as of "The unique style LP used to have". That's not a thing. That's not something that exists. The music was good and still is good but it was riding the coattails of a wave of music that was dissipating fast already. Making another Hybrid Theory would've been suicide. Period. It blows my mind that conversation even needs to take place. You think people would just deal with it after what will now be THREE albums of departure from what they got their foot in the door with. Hybrid Theory - Meteora was just Linkin Park saying "Hey world, we're here". Minutes to Midnight and beyond is "Now that we got your attention, and found the people who will still loyally give it to us after so long, we're just going to make the music we want to make." If I ever make music people give a shit about I won't feel an ounce of debt to people like spraypaintninkpens. Not a teaspoon. If I make music that catches their ears, cool. If my heart takes me another direction and I honest to god can't phone in another album like that one, I'll go with the flow. Don't like it? That's fine. Listen to the old music. That was for you. But if you want to act like I owe you more of the same just because it's what you want with no regard for where my artistic vision goes, I don't need you as a fan. People act like a musician has some debt to them because they buy an album. No, you buy albums because you know that right then, that album is something you want to support. They have every right to change their mind later and you have every right to cry about it, but that doesn't mean people are going to take you seriously.

To me Crawling has always been a "vanilla" Linkin Park song. Nothing special. Never got the hype over it. Is it good? Yes. Does anything about it stand out? No. Relatively speaking it wasn't even one of their more "iconic" singles. I can accept that as being the reason One Step Closer stayed a staple so long. In The End was an iconic single but stands out for being a classic crowd interaction song as well. Crawling just doesn't have a lot going for it. If any song had to hit the chopping block now after ten years frankly I'd throw that one under the bus in a heartbeat.

Ontario California would be enticing if I knew for sure they'd play it in IMAX. No IMAX, no 40 minute drive.

"When the album leaks, ignore it." Well that's about at the top of my list of things I'm not going to do. Who gives a fuck if I hear it on the 26th or next week. With the preorder hullabaloo they should have pretty good figures already. There's no mysteries about sales when you're cramming preorders down peoples' throats and making them share links on Twitter and Facebook so everybody can be put on a nice neat mailing list.They know we'll be buying the album, so I'll listen to as soon as I can. No skin off anybody's nose.

Or- or, here's this one- People aren't going to fucking die if the remix doesn't come out this month. Jesus Christ is there anything this fanbase won't whine or speculate about? Is there?

I always hear about these kind of things and think "That might be cool, I guess" and then never end up checking it out. Might finally do it this time if the album is good.

I see. Excuse my language then, that post was the rage-apex of a few weeks of believing that fan sites were using their pull to support people's contest standings.