danielpsoad-09

Great for those who can attend. There will also be a listening party in London on June 3rd (source: http://www.kerrang.com/18359/win-tickets-exclusive-linkin-park-album-listening-party/)

There's no much time left for snippets and a stream/leak of the album!

I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks that it's ridiculous that they're playing like 16 full songs? I mean, I get it that they want to change stuff and surprise people but I'd be pissed if my favorite band played 8 or 9 incomplete songs throughout a 90 minute set. I'm fine with them using transitions, but going from a shortened ALTNC to a shortened LITE to a shortened New Divide to a shortened Crawling? WTF.

I'm one of those people that want them to change their setlists every night but whenever I say that, I'm not thinking of a ton of incomplete songs.

I'm surprised the band hasn't released this song oficially yet. After the 1 minute preview and its live performance last night, I was expecting them to put it online today, kind of like what STP did with Out Of Time.

That COG version was bad. They destroyed the best song on LT. Let's hope it's just a once in a lifetime thing,

I've been watching the videos and I gotta say that the band sounded awesome. I'm so glad they decided to not add tons of layers on Chester's voice on the recording of the new songs. He nailed GAS, UIG and Wastelands. Rob also is killing it, I've always thought his drums sounds way better live than on the albums. Having a double bass pedal made that solo even more awesome.

As for the setlist, the way they mixed songs was pretty badass, although I'd rather have two complete songs than 4 halfs of different songs. I can imagine if they start playing my favorite song (even though I doubt Runaway or ALTNC are anyone's favorite songs) and then they suddently stop it. I'm surprised they dropped BTH too. I can't wait to see them in August!

I don't think PMA is a good closer so I think they'll probably play the album either at the beginning of the show or in the middle of it, just like Mike suggested it. They might play like 5 songs, then have a break and play HT in full, and then close the show with 5 more songs. I think that even if they're going ''visceral'', they will still play a couple of slow songs. I don't think they'll drop BTH or Numb, and I wouldn't be surprised if they keep the ballad medley.

Congrats on the new site! It looks pretty cool.

I pretty much agree with most of what has been said here. When I saw LP in 2010 and 2011, the interludes kind of killed the flow of the show. Apart from that, I think the ATS songs sound great live. WTCFM is probably the one I enjoy the most live. When they opened with W&K I had a blast even if it was only weeks after the album had been released.

It'd be great if they keep WTCFM on the new tour. I'd also like to see WFTE since it's one my favorite songs. If they're going to keep some mid-tempo/soft songs, I hope that's the one they keep.

Download Festival is the perfect excuse to release a badass DVD, just like they did with Road to Revolution. Both are very special peformances.

Live In Texas, Madrid 2010 and Berlin 2012 weren't particularly special concerts and they all got released.

It'd be pretty disappointing if it's the Concert for the Phillipines. It was a very short presentation, Chester was sick (yes, I know they fixed everything when they showed it on TV), Castle Of Glass sounded awful, etc.

I wonder why they don't do making of DVDs anymore. I really enjoyed the MTM one. They should record their Download Festival presentation and put together a pretty cool documentary DVD with the concert and interviews as a celebration of their 15+ years. That'd be awesome.

I still don't know whether to preorder or not. It says that the CD that comes with the artbook + lyrics is 'exclusive packaging' so I'm assuming the version that will be in stores will be different. If that's the case, I'll get it from lp.com but I'll wait for more information.

After listening to the song several times, I think it has grown on me. I'd say I like it even if it's not the greatest thing in the world. I don't think it's better than GATS, but if this is the softest song we'll hear on the album, then I think I'll be satisfied. The song has a lot of interesting things going on, musically. I'm still not completely happy with the mix (of both UIG and GATS), especially with how the drums sound.

I honestly don't care about lyrics in general. I've never understood why a lot of people care so much about the lyrics (of any song/band). If I want to read deep stuff, I guess I'd simply read poetry. As long as the words make sense, flow well and have nice melodies, that's fine with me. If LP wants to use the words "lies" and "pain" in every song from now on, I honestly don't care as long as the music is good.

Oh, and the outro bit is interesting and I can't wait how it connects to Rebellion which is probably the song I'm looking forward the most.

Finally! I really like GATS so I hope UIG is as good or better. Can't wait!

Only these five?

Standing In the Middle has an explicit version. I don't know about the rest.

I thought the announcement was for June 17th?

Keep seeing 13th in random places, is that an international thing or the original release or something? :/

Albums are released on Fridays in most European countries. I'm not sure when but they are also released a week before in Asia/Australia, so we'll have the album for sure the 12th or 13th.

3news from New Zealand has posted a new interview with Chester. It's a very interesting conversation in which he talks about the sound of the new album, collaborations with Morello and Malakian, and a lot more. Make sure you read it because it's one of the good ones!

Tom is everywhere. He was here in New Zealand with Springsteen the other month.

You know, we invited him in with no expectations. We didn't have expectations for any of this. And if it works, and we like each other and it's fun, then our expectations become important. But let's just have fun first, you know? And we brought him in and played some of our stuff and said, "If there's anything here that you like and that you might want to mess around with, or maybe you hear something different and whatever, then we can stop and work on that. And if there's something you've written that you would like to hear us work on, then we're down with that". So we played him a whole bunch of songs and the stuff that we played him he was like, "Dude, I'll do whatever you guys want on these songs [but] I don't know if I can add anything to this stuff!" So that was cool. "Awesome, great, thank-you! So… do you have something?" And he busted out 'Rebellion', and had the riff and had a chorus. And it was like, "So yeah - let's just do that!" And we did it. And we recorded the track in a couple of days, we had worked out the parts, and Daron played the guitars and the bass, and left really the arrangements and the lyrics and stuff up to me and Mike. We wrote this f**king killer song. And it's one of my favourite songs on the record.

Source: 3news

I'm not particularly a fan of Morello but it'll be interesting to hear that song. I'm only excited about Rebellion since Daron is one of my favorite songwriters/guitarists.

I hope all these collaborations on the album won't prevent them from playing those songs live.

I don't particularly care for the movie but I'm very curious about the soundtrack. New music is always good.

I don't think I've been this hyped for an album in a long time. "Rebellion" in particular sounds like an awesome jam. Can't wait for this to leak be released!

That's an awesome album cover. Can't wait! And I'm glad they're just releasing info/music now. I didn't particularly like those puzzles or games from past albums to get a freaking date or album cover, or when they used to make like two announcements to finally announce something.

I don't know if this was posted but here's Rakim talking about collaborating with LP.

Linkin Park and Daron Malakian?! Holy fuck, my favorite band and my favorite guitar player (from my 2nd favorite band). This is going to be awesome!

That medley sounded pretty good. I'm really pumped about the new album. I really want to believe Mike when he says the new music is loud and in your face, but I don't want to have very high expectations yet.

He's not playing the drum part anywhere close to how it's played in the song. He throws a lot of his own interpretation in there, like he does with all of his drum covers. He completely skips the double kicks when they appear, playing eighth notes where Rob plays sixteenths (to be fair, the double kicks aren't very audible in the full mix, but they're clear as day on the stems). I doubt there's a human being on earth who can play sixteenth notes at 200 BPM with a single pedal.

Well, the drummers who play technical death metal and that kind of music can do crazy things with their feet. This guy in particular does an amazing job with a single pedal in some parts.