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Top 5 time! Final Masquerade

Final Masquerade. Another song I really like, but once again, it's my least favorite from those who remained.

Wastelands. I really like it, but it's my least favorite from the songs that haven't been eliminated.

Burning In The Skies

Carnivores Set A: 1. Drawbar (Short) 2. Guilty All The Same (w/ Mike Rapping Rakim's Verse) 3. Keys To The Kingdom 4. Points Of Authority (Short Intro) 5. One Step Closer (Ext. Outro) 6. Blackout (Short, Instrumental Only, Papercut Beat Outro Transition) 7. Papercut (Full) 8. With You (Short) 9. Wastelands (Hard Start) 10. Castle Of Glass (Experience Version) 11. A Line In The Sand 12. Robot Boy (Short; Instrumental Only) 13. Joe Solo Medley 14. The Summoning 15. War (Ext. Outro) 16. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro; Wall Of Noise Outro) 17. Mike Solo Medley (w/ Wretches And Kings; Remember The Name; Hands Held High) 18. Numb (Numb/Encore Intro/ Outro + Verse 1 Guitar) 19. All For Nothing (w/ Chester singing chorus) OR Final Masquerade 20. In The End 21. Faint (Ext. Outro) ------------------------------ 22. Until It's Gone (Ext. The Catalyst + No More Sorrow + New Divide Intro; Transition Outro) 23. Lost In The Echo (Full; Drums Transition Outro) 24. Forgotten (Drums Intro) 25. What I've Done (Short Ticking Intro; Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) 26. Bleed It Out (Ext. Bridge w/ Drums Solo + The Catalyst Refrain; Ext. Outro)

Mark The Graves

From the band's Facebook page: Linkin Park x UFC - "Wastelands" This video contains footage of UFC fights and footage from Linkin Park's performance of Wastelands in Rock in Rio Lisbon earlier this year (only video, the audio is from the studio version). Thoughts? This is the first of probably two Wastelands videos, with the collaboration with the IAVA coming up.

Mark The Graves

Things are getting more difficult! War.

Drawbar

This election is going to be hard. The Summoning.

Nice clips! Waiting to hear the official full versions.

Mike's commentary on THP track by track (from the twitter listening party): Keys To The Kingdom: Of all the songs, Keys to The Kingdom was my favorite to open the album because of the constant sonic surprises The chorus vocal was a stream-of-consciousness vocal (and lyric) by Chester. He didn't write it down, just sang whatever came to mind. That's me saying "Try and do the other thing"--I was talking to Rob when we were recording drums The "I'm not allowed to say certain things" was a clip we put here because we originally had another clip... But we weren't allowed to use it because of legal reasons! All For Nothing: "All For Nothing" features Page Hamilton from the band Helmet. Helmet was one of the bands whose aggressive / melodic sound was ...one of my inspirations while writing The Hunting Pary. If you listen, you can hear my vocal mixed with Page's in the chorus Guilty All The Same: The music behind the interlude before "Guilty All The Same" is an original piece. That's me singing "ohhh" Guilty All The Same was the first song on The Hunting Party Rob recorded drums for. He worked up to this performance for about a month. To me, Rakim's verse is the perfect mix of technicality, content, and emotional expression. The Summoning: "The Summoning" was a sonic experiment that we added late in the process, to give the listener's ear a palette cleanser before "WAR" War: "WAR" was a demo that Chester brought in. Very little changed between the demo version and the final. If you listen carefully, Chester actually says "1, 2...1-2-THANK YOU" There was an alternate version where he said 1-2-1-2-F*CKYOU Rob recorded the drums to "war" in one take Wastelands: My verses in "Wastelands" were written before the music ever existed. Just words on my computer. Actually...just the 1st verse. The 2nd verse, on the other hand, got re-written during the final month of recording. The last chorus in "Wastelands" completely changes chord structure (it's not the same as the rest of the song). I think that was the first time we ever did that on a song. Until It's Gone: The structure of "Until It's Gone" is based on building to a DROP; got the idea when working on "A Light That Never Comes" w/ Steve Aoki Although it can be about regret (the usual meaning of "don't know what you've got until it's gone"), UIG has an alternate meaning As a parent, your child won't grow into their potential until they leave the nest. You don't know what you've got until it's (your're) gone There were more trap elements in the album at one point, but we thought they ended up being silly, except this UIG interlude Rebellion: We've run into those guys many times over the years. Daron joined me in the studio and brought the guitar riffs that became "Rebellion" One thing I love in "Rebellion" is the cheekiness/sarcasm in the lyrics. We usually have a hard time pulling this off, but it worked here. Mark The Graves: "Mark The Graves" was one of the earliest demos on the album. At one point, I wanted it to be the 1st song on the album. We recorded all the drums on the album to tape instead of computer. I think you can really hear it on this song. We also set up a really unique kit for this song. In particular: we balanced a couple tambourines upright on Rob's snare, with duct tape. Drawbar: Tom Morello came through to hang/write. The conversation and experience was the best part. We included this jam as a reminder of the day Tom's writing style is alien to us, ha. Very "jam" oriented, while ours is more "writing into the computer." Final Masquerade: Final Masquerade was one of the last songs finished for the album. The original vocal was me singing all the way thru. CB sounds better! Rob saved this song, too. The original beat I wrote was more complicated but had no soul. Rob improvised this drum groove & it felt perfect. A Line In The Sand: The opening vocal part on A LINE IN THE SAND was written years ago, while we were making A THOUSAND SUNS It didn't work back then. But when I was working on this song, I sang the vocal and it (finally) fit. There are lots of different guitar tones and amp setups on this song, giving each part its own flavor, and holding attention over 6 minutes LINE IN THE SAND is one of my favorite The Hunting Party songs. It feels like it does everything that LP does, in one song. Brad's solo and Rob's drums at the end of LINE IN THE SAND are one of the best moments on The Hunting Party. The fill that ends the song was an improvisation. I didn't know Rob could play that fast, ha ​Source: Mike Shinoda's twitter

Catalyst/Requiem

Try downloading it manually from iTunes on your computer. That's how I got my iTunes copy of the album. Then, you can transfer the files to your phone.

Seems like a great show! Forgotten and By Myself sound great. It's just amazing how they nail songs they haven't played for over a decade. Waiting to hear PMA.

It's finally time! Can't wait for Forgotten, By Myself and Pushing Me Away to be played live again. APFMH will be back too! It's a shame they dropped it for this tour. It's a really good song live. I hope they keep APFMH, Forgotten and Pushing Me Away in the setlist. It will be great to see these songs played live again.

Thought of this set after listening to the album a couple of times. Based on the European tour set: 1. Drawbar (Short Outro) 2. Guilty All The Same (w/ Mike rapping Rakim's verse) 3. Keys To The Kingdom 4. Points Of Authority (Short Intro) 5. One Step Closer (Ext. Outro) 6. Blackout (Short; Instrumental Only; Papercut Beat Outro Transition) 7. Papercut (Full) 8. With You (Short) 9. Rebellion 10. Wastelands (Ext. Intro) 11. Castle Of Glass (Experience Version; Piano Outro Transition) 12. Pushing Me Away (Piano Intro) 13. Robot Boy (Short; Instrumental Only) 14. Final Masquerade 15. War (Short The Summoning Intro) 16. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro; Wall Of Noise Outro) 17. Mike Solo Medley (w/ Wretches And Kings; Remember The Name; Hands Held High) 18. Numb (Numb/Encore Intro/ Outro + Verse 1 Guitar) 19. In The End 20. All For Nothing 21. Faint (Ext. Outro) ----------------------------------------- 22. A Line In The Sand 23. Until It's Gone (Ext. Outro Transition) 24. Lost In The Echo (Full, Drums Transition Outro) 25. Forgotten 26 . What I've Done (Short Ticking Intro; Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) 27. Bleed It Out ( Ext. Bridge w/ The Catalyst Refrain; Ext. Outro)

Listened to it once so far, and I have to say, WOW. I'm gonna listen to it a couple more times, and then I'll try to post some thoughts. So far, great album! Now waiting to get my Pre Order

Watched the show now, and it was great! I really like this tour so far. They have tons of energy at almost every show, and the setlist is awesome. I'm really glad Mike rapped Hands Held High V1 in his solo medley. It's one of my favorite LP songs, and I really wanted them to bring it back, in any form, to the setlist. Thanks for requesting a different verse AndOne

It's great that we'll finally get a full webcast of RaR. Checked the livestream of today earlier, and the quality is GREAT. Too bad I might not be able to watch it Make sure to record it!

Thanks!

I remember a thread about a "game where you can unlock new songs from Mike" started here not long ago. I guess this is the game. So, it's basically a version of Recharge for iPad where you can unlock new songs from THP? Sounds nice.

Any setlist news?

I'm so jealous at those who will be able to go this show. STP w/ Chester and Of Mice & Men together is just an awesome lineup.