Linkin Park Going 'Back To Their Roots' With New Album 'Living Things'
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
American rockers Linkin Park have promised fans that they'll be returning to their 'roots' with their new album 'Living Things', which hits shelves on June 26th.
The higly-anticipated record is the follow-up to 2010's 'A Thousand Suns', and will apparently see the band returning to the roots but not as a nu-metal band. The album has been produced by high-profile rock producer Rick Rubin and the lead single, 'Burn it Down' is out now you can check it out below.
Speaking to NME, Mike Shinoda explained that the band would be going back to their origins but not necessarily to their heavier, more aggressive side.
What we've actually said is that the record gets back to our roots and it's captured a feeling that we haven't gone after in many years. I think that's gone misconstrued as a return to heavy guitars. There are guitars on the record of course though.
I'll say it like this, with 'Minutes To Midnight' and even more so with 'A Thousands Sun', we were making an effort to get away from the sound of the first two records. The reason for that was that we felt if we made a third record that sounded that way, we'd be pigeonholed into doing that forever. Everybody just gravitated towards the stuff that sounded different and as we got into 'A Thousand Suns' it got even more different.
He continued: I think we got so interested in adding new tools to the toolbox that we forgot what was already in the toolbox. After making a few records which just focused on the different stuff, it became fresh again to go back and use the old tools. It's definitely not going back to our old ways, we've used all the tools in the toolbox.
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