Mike just did chats on the LPU, LP.com, and Ustream. Highlights are as follows.
Chester is doing a very different kind of screaming that is very exciting. Mike referred to it as "weird" and "losing his mind kind of screaming."
There will be heavy tracks on the album.
There will be gang vocals from the entire band on a couple songs.
Mike and Chester do back and forth vocals on almost every song.
Mike will be rapping.
The music video for The Catalyst is not yet finished.
The standard CD, Special Edition & Deluxe Box Set will have their own art books and cases.
Both new and old songs will be played on tour.
"That effect on the voices in The Catalyst is a layer of a flanger, a modulation effect, and some other stuff."
"We had fun with effects on this record...lots of "ear candy"...on many instruments."
"It's not really a concept record. It's kind of a concept record, but only in the sense that the concept is more about the execution of it. It is not a rock opera. You guys may feel like it's got a common thread that kinda goes through from song to song and all the way down the album and that is definitely intentional. There's multiple layers and meaning."
Neal Avron has mixed the record. He mixed Minutes to Midnight as well.
LP will not be on the soundtracks to Saw 7 or Transformers 3.
Mike and Joe both contributed to the artwork. Mike praised Joe's work.
There will be tracks from 20 seconds to almost 6 minutes on the album.
Feel free to add anything I missed.
Thoughs?
mshinoda says (16:24):
I want to see #TheCatalyst and #LinkinPark trending on Twitter :-)
Have you heard him? Let's do it!