bloodbath

Do you know someone who really collects ALL the versions?

I have tons of black metal bands if I want 40 minutes of songs being exactly the same, with LP I expect and appreciate variety. It's better to fail doing something different than doing the same old stuff all over again.

Really liked the song, has this MTM of being a pop song with personality (yes, I'm looking at you OML), and the video is GREAT. Hahn is a master of telling you a story in less than three minutes with a plot twist.

The cassette was only good because of its price. Besides that it was a shitty format

Everything involving Already Over was... weird. Let me explain: It seems so that the point was just to release a song in the vein of Welcome. A track good enough to be published, and nothing else. But everything around it seemed to indicate something bigger in Mike's solo career. The photoshoots, the AO varians, the sessions with different artist playing AO and LP songs... I even thought back then that those covers were all we were gonna get LP related. With Welcome everything was simpler. He just released the song and played a handful of shows here and there. That was it, no wild guessings. And with the LP comeback everything is even stranger. If we didn't knew the timing behind the scenes of LP's comeback, I would have said that he was planning to go back solo, then something changed, he resurrected LP and every other plan was scrapped. Now we know that LP was very much alive one year ago. I would have released the song after the From Zero cycle, but as some of you said, he might just was testing waters.

Makes sense. I guess the whole album must have its roots in 2017/18/19. By then it was just "music", that they didn't even knew what to do with them. Perhaps would have become material for Dropped Flames, more MS solo material or whatever. But in time it would evolve to the stuff we're meeting in one month. It's not like "hey, from 2022 to 2023 we're just gonna be focusing on making a Linkin Park album", with a closed beginning and ending date.

If Friendly Fire is in the setlist, can't see why Qwerty can't be

LP could play just the hits, being a five piece with people singing Chester parts and they would still headline. Bad Omens and Sleep Token are yet to prove they can pass the test of time or they're just a trend.

Not being ungrateful would be nice

1st: The Requiem, how many times has been recycled for other intros? Case closed

Like the IA Chester Bennington covers

Nobody thinks about CD users?

Really? LP isn't that big in USA? Really surprised, TBH

I'm starting to think that a new line up might have some benefits, specially when it comes to avoid stagnation

Perhaps on his "solo" slot in the setlist it could fit. Much like Welcome during late Hunting Party Tour

Maybe they'll play the album in full throughout the full touring cycle? Like in MTM

Remember guys, the 2007 European Tour had the same setlist every time. Then Projekt Revolution came...

Maybe they didn't because during the first 4 albums they got so exhausted with the tours and everything that had to do with the new music that they just wanted to look forward. Kinda when you listen a record so much that you don't want to listen to it in months/years. But yeah, those songs were simply too good to be relegated to LPU CDs or, who knows, a new boxset in 3 years.

No, we're just fans. There's limits to our relationship with the band. And personal stuff is one of them.

Make no mistake, we all like to know what happened and have some words from him, but some people take it as Rob own them something, like they're entitled to something. It would be a good gesture from him, but again, we have no place here.

As unfair it was to bash Emily for just not being Chester, like it is saying that Emily now is better that Chester because the latter was starting to feel the weight of the age on his vocal chords.

When I see some of you speaking about the Rob situation, I see a lot of naivety. Bands changes a lot of members for various reasons, some of them logic, some of them absurd. Bands are enterprises, rarely a bunch of friends, like LP. If Mike says that he simply lost interest, then it probably be it, you're trying to see a big drama where there's nothing, just a guy who doesn't feel comfortable anymore in the band. And no, he doesn't own you a statement.

The band wasn't in a good place back in 2020, that's why promotion was so discrete, even though they said that a boxset for HT was way more important that any of the following records (except for ATS). But regarding the selection of tracks, they did a pretty good job. It was never about emptying the vaults, but a glimpse of of HT came to be throughout various demos. Yes, 6 or 7 POA demos weren't necessary, same as hypothetically including another 7 versions of Papercuts barely undistiguishable one from another. Remember, that kind of stuff only matters to us, not the mainstream audience. If they should have included X or Y version of Part of Me, Crawling, In the End or whatever, depends on each ones personal taste.

Isn't that a little bit too soon to throw shit about the new era with those BS claims?

What???? Did they mention LPlive during the show???