Linkin Park: no longer nu-metal?
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MTV has reported that Linkin Park are to ditch their successful nu-metal sound in favour of a mix of the music that inspired them to form a band in the first place - hip-hop and punk-rock.
"We're ripping that out," said frontman Chester Bennington of the band's nu-metal sound. "It's completely gone." The as-yet-untitled third album is due for release next year.
The singer continued:
"We've always been known for mixing a lot of different genres of music and not pigeonholing ourselves in one particular sound, but by doing so, we've kind of pigeonholed ourselves into our sound.
"It sounds strange, but there's a common thread that people are going to expect, and we're trying to pull that out of the new music."
Rick Rubin is producing the album alongside the band's own Mike Shinoda. Bennington concluded:
"We've always said we write the music we write so that we can spread our wings as far as we want and try new things and go anywhere. I think we're really going to prove that with this new record."
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They're still going to be using the same 4 chords though, right?
Guilty Pleasure alert
I like Linkin.
these
guys have been going for YEARS what the hell is going on, surely every fan would have grown out of them by now
dang!
i felt guilty that i enjoyed them live when they supported the Deftones in 2001, that makes me feel a bit better about myself, thank you.
...
They must be inspired by Five and Take Thats comeback.
all i expect
from Linkin Park is the *slightly* foreign looking guy to mumble some earnest-sounding phrases and then Chester to sing really high and loud.
The rest of the guys can do their thing in a blur of decks, massive headphones, rock-star bass poses and silly beards.
...and I'm about to break.
For lunch.
Deja vous
has this been posted before...?
Still i doubt if they made a "nu metal" album anyone would buy it so they're tapping into another genre to make an extra buck in the vain hope they don't get dropped.
seriously
if they utter the word "paranoid" in any of these new songs im goin to have to rape them with the fat end of a hammer.
No longer nu metal
but probably still shit.
Chester
No, let's not make some lazy remark about how Linkin Park are 'shit'. It's shooting fish in a sherry glass.
Lets' focus on the positive here for once - and there is one overwhelming positive to be found. It's Chester. With a name like that he can do what he liked for all I care - he's got the right.
..
charlie chester child mol.........
why do
people pay rick rubin?
WHAT DOES HE DO
except push the compression up to 11
erm
his stuff with the beasties, jay-z and johnny cash is brilliant.
maybe that's why people pay him.
he inspires songs by spank rock
which manage to be misogynistic and vaguely homoerotic in their vibe, AT THE SAME TIME.
we should all be paying him.
i don't like layers upon layers of overdubs
he's great for not doing that
he gets the band to play the music.
we're not nu-metal
we're a mixture of hip-hop and punk rock. eh? so like (hed)pe and snot and a bunch of other nu-metal bands?
oh, never mind...
well
i'm presuming he's going to be in a "record producer" role for linkin park (a la rhcp, cash) and not a "guy who makes beats" role (a la jay-z, beasties). and for stuff like rhcp and cash his main role just seems to be to actually organize and motivate the hopeless rock stars into actually recording things. i could do that. i'd just yell at them. i dont have rick's beard, but i can make a mean fist.
i wish they'd come onstage with jay z
instead of gwyneth and beyonce
He did Reign in Blood
therefore he has a free pass and cannot be slagged off for all the crap he produces now.
There is no doubt
..that Hybrid Theory is one of the classic albums of our time. Points of Authority is also responsible for the best lyrics of all time.
linkin park are good for 2 reasons
-they write catchy songs that verge on the experimental (mainstream experimental).
-they introduce young people to a broader spectrum of music.
Linkin Park are experimental
Now I've heard everything...
And a broader spectrum of music? I remember 2001 when they were popular, and the only bands people 'discovered' through their love of LP were Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach and other whiny stupid boring talentless riff merchants who take advantage of 12 year olds' pre-pubescent confusion by convincing them they hate themselves.
Linkin Park and their ilk are a disgrace to humanity.
Me hopes there be some irony here
Because there is a very large doubt over the above. Actually, reading the second sentence, I've just realised it is sarcastic. Well done, and I apologise for taking the shine off a perfectly valid sarcastic comment
i never liked the park
but (hed) pe. holy moly they were some good fun. altogether now.
"I'll come into your house, make love to your spouse, fuck her in the mouth, and then I'm out, what?"
Hed pe are to poetry, what Richard Blackwood is to comedy.
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