FearOfTheDuck

I'm thinking late summer for the new record. Maybe a few US festival shows around that time, then a South American and European tour before the end of 2014. In an ideal world, at least.

Considering the band have had the huge majority of this year to work on music, it actually quite makes sense that they're almost ready, especially as they're working a lot quicker than they used to. A few more months next year and we should get a pretty well worked-on record, they'll probably have had more time than with Living Things.

The sarcasm is strong in this one.I don't think he meant heavy as in heavy music, anyway, but intensive. Same here.

Hopefully this makes a UK visit likely.

Why have 23 songs in a setlist? It's such a horrible number.

Yeah I felt like there was a bit of a mid-paced lull there that The Catalyst would break up nicely. But yeah, nice work that.

Throw in The Catalyst after Burn it Down and I'd back this whole-heartedly.

Figure.09 Demo

High Voltage (LPU1)

Forgotten Demo

Anyone else think Chester sounds like a young Liam Gallagher in the verses of this song? Maybe it's just a very Oasis-ish melody. I like the song, probably not as much as Out of Time but it's a good little pop rock song.

I thought that haha. When I was listening I was like... "where have I heard this chord progression before?" One day I will do a mashup of all those songs.

The first time I heard it, the uploader had pitchshifted it up a step (presumably to avoid detection), and I thought it sounded horrible haha. Then I heard the actual version and it's quite cool. A bit too generic EDM for my tastes, but the chorus is cool and the possible Dark Knight reference in Mike's verses is amusing. Still don't like the effects on Chester's part though.

In the End Demo

+1 THEY'RE DOING ANOTHER REMIX ALBUM. WHY IS THIS NOT MAKING PEOPLE DANCE FOR JOY?

That cover art is gorgeous. More excited for the Mike remixes than anything else haha.

The idea of this is to make your ultimate Linkin Park album- but the game has a twist. Basically, you have to choose your favourite songs to appear on your album. However, each track on your album must correspond to the song's tracklisting on the album it came from. So your Track 1 can be Papercut, Opening, Foreword, Wake, The Requiem or Lost in the Echo, for example. It's actually quite a challenging task. Here's mine: 01) Papercut 02) Don't Stay 03) Leave Out all the Rest 04) Points of Authority 05) When They Come for Me 06) Castle of Glass 07) Faint 08) Waiting for the End 09) A Place for My Head 10) From the Inside 11) In Pieces 12) Iridescent 13) Numb 14) The Catalyst 15) My <Dsmbr

Oh my. The question is, will this be a full Reanimation style remix album or not quite to that extent?

THIS WILL HAPPEN.

But if they took the time to develop bands with genuine substance they'd have guaranteed magazine-sellers for years to come rather than the next few months. The whole music industry, including journalism, only wants to focus on the short term sell and that simply doesn't work in the rock world. I understand and agree with what you're saying but the focus is on making a quick buck rather than long term investment in the scene.

There's a lot on the new album (Fast in My Car, Grow Up, Still Into You) that reminds me a lot of No Doubt, admittedly more in the vocals than the music itself. Nonetheless, I don't really think Paramore are doing anything groundbreaking in the grand scheme of things. They write some good tunes, yes, but they're not the sound of the future.

The article is really nothing to do with Linkin Park, so is that really a surprise?

This is the best summary I have yet seen of the Temper Temper record It's a decent enough album, but some of the songs are so obviously ripping off other artists it's hilarious. It's also interesting to look through the bands who will be festival headliners in the near future: Avenged Sevenfold - Sound like Metallica / Iron Maiden. Bullet for My Valentine - Ditto. Queens of the Stone Age - Sound like a 70s rock band. Paramore - Sound like No Doubt. Alter Bridge - Currently on the cover of "Classic Rock" magazine. 30 Seconds to Mars - Slightly original at least, but to me they sound like Muse with the fun stripped out. So only Mars are really trying to do something particularly interesting, and when/if they headline Download the shitstorm will be immense. One step further down the ladder and you've got Bring Me the Horizon and Enter Shikari who have a huge young fanbase but very few older fans, and increasingly old-sounding 90s relics like Machine Head and Marilyn Manson. The sad truth is that the most hyped hard rock band of the last three years was Black Veil Brides, and where are they? Watching their teenage fanbase slowly dwindle as they play smaller venues because they didn't bother writing a decent album to go with it. Now Sleeping With Sirens are filling the Tumblr/Drop Dead scene girl void and are getting all the magazine attention but where they'll be in two years is anyone's guess. What I don't understand is that the magazines give perfect or near perfect ratings to underground bands like While She Sleeps, Letlive and Rolo Tomassi but then doesn't put them on the cover or even in any prominent features. In the US it's more the radio that controls rock tastemaking, but here in the UK the magazines are kingmakers and they're really not picking the right bands at the moment.

^ I agree with the above posts. I've got through all my "bucket list" nostalgia bands now, after seeing System of a Down and Nine Inch Nails. The future's just going to be what excites me now, which is cool. To be fair, in pop, it's very rare for an artist to not start out extremely commercial. I think Sempiternal is finally starting to change peoples' opinions, but it's still a a gradual process. In the entirety of rock today, there only seem to be two types of bands starting up- indie bands all trying to imitate the legends of the genre to get successful, and metalcore bands who only care about starting moshpits and selling t-shirts. There's no middle ground at all- when was the last time you heard a big new heavy rock band with a singer who can actually sing? The whole genre has polarised completely. My favourite type of music is melodic metal, but there's just none around any more aside from a few radio-humping American bands (FFDP are guility of this). EDIT: I would like to add that there are bands making genuinely exciting new music in the genre like Bring Me the Horizon, Letlive, Karnivool, Rolo Tomassi and Enter Shikari but that for the most part the media, particularly in America, don't give them the support they need to break through and instead focus on bands like Bullet for My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold that are just repeating the same old trends.

And again Mike proves to be one of the smartest men in rock. I agree so much with what he's saying here. Plus the way he outlines Linkin Park's hugeness is brilliant. Why they aren't as well regarded as Foo Fighters or Radiohead I still don't understand. Guess it's still the nu metal stigma. Agreed. Of Mice and Men is such a random inclusion on his list of his artists, I guess he must be a fan. It's not like they're even the biggest band in their genre, let alone the scene as a whole. And I disagree with his inclusion of Coldplay as a rock band, but never mind, I'm nitpicking. So overall, YES MIKE. WE LOVE YOU. Oh, and also here's the obligatory "YAY LP ARENT GOING 2 BE EDM NOW HURRAAAHHH"