Linkin Park Returning To 'More Familiar' Sound With New Album
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
American rap/nu-metal rockers Linkin Park have promised their fans that their forthcoming fifth studio album will be more reminiscent of their usual, unique style – as well as confessing that they did go a bit over-the-top with the production of their previous album ‘A Thousand Suns’.
They band are currently working on a new record, but fans have no idea what kind of sound the LP will feature – with the band’s typical hard, driven, nu-metal sound replaced with a more electronic one on their last album. Now, frontman Chester Bennington has told Kerrang! that they’ve left the ‘A Thousand Sun’ style – and will be returning to the style that their fans know and love.
“With this album, we've incorporated a lot of guitar work with big choruses and the heavier electronic stuff to give it that really big wall of sound feeling without getting too metal” Bennington told the rock magazine. “This will be more familiar to people than 'A Thousand Suns' was, where we were like 'Fuck it, we're just going to go bonkers.”
He continued: “Over the previous two records, we were trying hard to break out of the nu-metal box that we'd found ourselves in. It's very easy to characterise us as that based on 'Hybrid Theory' and 'Meteora', but we knew there was more to us than that. With the exception of the metal guitar tone we had on the first two records – which, I think is the reason that a lot of people really like the band – I feel like we've found a place where we've become in our skin.”
The album is expected to come out later this year.
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