May 20, 200916 yr Hmm I quite like it, but like others have said, you can tell it's for a soundtrack. Sounds very 'What I've Done'. Not bad at all though imo.
May 26, 200916 yr Linkin Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda says the band’s fourth studio album is going to be so unique, “they’re going to have to come up with a new genre name for what this record is.” Shinoda wants to shake things up in the rock world with the follow-up to 2007’s Minutes To Midnight, and tells Rolling Stone Linkin Park are doing just that. They’re about halfway through the writing process and hope to have the album ready for an early 2010 release. But Shinoda adds that the quality of the tunes is chief among his concerns, and that “if we need to take a step back and make sure everything is top, top quality by our standards, we will.” The way Shinoda sees it, this country’s musical appetite mirrors its appetite for food. “People just want junk food,” he explains. “They want throw-away junk food music that’s going to make them lethargic and fat. McDonalds is great once in a while, in moderation. Eat it every day and you just turn into a slob. We feel the same way about music. We want to hopefully move even more into being able to make more substantial music, and we’ve always been capable of it, but sometimes, there were different things that we got excited about on each record, about what we wanted to write and what we wanted to make and what kind of statement we wanted to make. On this record, we’re definitely paying attention to the substance and the nuance, and we hope to make something that’s really cutting edge and really different.” Before the world gets another Linkin Park record, though, the band’s other mike-wielder, Chester Bennington, plans to release his first solo project, under the banner Dead By Sunrise. In addition, the band is currently collaborating with legendary composer Hans Zimmer on the score to Transformers: Rise of the Fallen. The band contributed a fresh song, “New Divide,” to the film’s soundtrack, “and when we delivered the song, everyone loved it, and so they invited us to work on the score. “This is the first time we’ve written something to visuals on a screen, writing as you’re looking at something to be inspired by,” Shinoda explains, “and as the scene moves along, the music changes, and it’s been a lot of fun to do that. This single marks the beginning of what we hope will be a more prolific phase on our career.” Back to the new LP disc: Shinoda says the record isn’t what he would describe as a concept album, but has some cohesive elements. “This isn’t necessarily a record that tells a story about a character or anything like that, but I do hope the record has a sonic identity, from beginning to end, that’s distinguishable from the other stuff we’ve done and distinguishable from everything else out there. I would love, at the end of the day, to be able to look at this record, and say its something totally new, totally true to the spirit of the band, and it doesn’t sound like anything else. That’s what we shoot for.” Shinoda says he’s been writing material for the album for months now, mostly while the band’s been on tour in Europe and in the States, and he plans to take some of his “Fort Minor energy,” and dump it into the LP album. “I really want a record that sounds different. I would love for this record to be something that has its own identity, and can’t easily be connected to anything else,” he says, before returning to his victuals analogy. “This album will be the kind of food that’s foreign to you, that you haven’t had before, and when you first taste it, you’ll go, ‘This doesn’t taste like anything else I’ve had, but I think I like it.’ We’ll have to make the record and see.” Beyond his work with Linkin Park, Shinoda has teamed up with DC Shoes for his third tennis shoe for the company’s Remix Series. All proceeds from the sales of the shoes, which Shinoda says he wore for six months on the band’s most recent tour, will benefit his Michael K. Shinoda Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Art Center College of Design in California.
May 26, 200916 yr "New Divide" is pretty limb to be honest. I hope the rest of their album is better.
May 28, 200916 yr Linkin Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda says the band’s fourth studio album is going to be so unique, “they’re going to have to come up with a new genre name for what this record is.” Shinoda wants to shake things up in the rock world with the follow-up to 2007’s Minutes To Midnight, and tells Rolling Stone Linkin Park are doing just that. They’re about halfway through the writing process and hope to have the album ready for an early 2010 release. But Shinoda adds that the quality of the tunes is chief among his concerns, and that “if we need to take a step back and make sure everything is top, top quality by our standards, we will.” The way Shinoda sees it, this country’s musical appetite mirrors its appetite for food. “People just want junk food,” he explains. “They want throw-away junk food music that’s going to make them lethargic and fat. McDonalds is great once in a while, in moderation. Eat it every day and you just turn into a slob. We feel the same way about music. We want to hopefully move even more into being able to make more substantial music, and we’ve always been capable of it, but sometimes, there were different things that we got excited about on each record, about what we wanted to write and what we wanted to make and what kind of statement we wanted to make. On this record, we’re definitely paying attention to the substance and the nuance, and we hope to make something that’s really cutting edge and really different.” Before the world gets another Linkin Park record, though, the band’s other mike-wielder, Chester Bennington, plans to release his first solo project, under the banner Dead By Sunrise. In addition, the band is currently collaborating with legendary composer Hans Zimmer on the score to Transformers: Rise of the Fallen. The band contributed a fresh song, “New Divide,” to the film’s soundtrack, “and when we delivered the song, everyone loved it, and so they invited us to work on the score. “This is the first time we’ve written something to visuals on a screen, writing as you’re looking at something to be inspired by,” Shinoda explains, “and as the scene moves along, the music changes, and it’s been a lot of fun to do that. This single marks the beginning of what we hope will be a more prolific phase on our career.” Back to the new LP disc: Shinoda says the record isn’t what he would describe as a concept album, but has some cohesive elements. “This isn’t necessarily a record that tells a story about a character or anything like that, but I do hope the record has a sonic identity, from beginning to end, that’s distinguishable from the other stuff we’ve done and distinguishable from everything else out there. I would love, at the end of the day, to be able to look at this record, and say its something totally new, totally true to the spirit of the band, and it doesn’t sound like anything else. That’s what we shoot for.” Shinoda says he’s been writing material for the album for months now, mostly while the band’s been on tour in Europe and in the States, and he plans to take some of his “Fort Minor energy,” and dump it into the LP album. “I really want a record that sounds different. I would love for this record to be something that has its own identity, and can’t easily be connected to anything else,” he says, before returning to his victuals analogy. “This album will be the kind of food that’s foreign to you, that you haven’t had before, and when you first taste it, you’ll go, ‘This doesn’t taste like anything else I’ve had, but I think I like it.’ We’ll have to make the record and see.” Beyond his work with Linkin Park, Shinoda has teamed up with DC Shoes for his third tennis shoe for the company’s Remix Series. All proceeds from the sales of the shoes, which Shinoda says he wore for six months on the band’s most recent tour, will benefit his Michael K. Shinoda Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Art Center College of Design in California. I needed a good laugh today, thanks for this! (Do they really take themselves this seriously LOL? :/ The McDonalds part was particularly hilarious considering they're practically the junk food music they're describing.) Almost as arrogant as that twat from Angels and Airwaves.
May 29, 200916 yr The McDonalds part was particularly hilarious considering they're part of the $h!t music since they're practically the junk food music they're describing.) Almost as arrogant as that twat from Angels and Airwaves. 100% in agreement with that... They were sh!tty "McDonalds Metal" in my eyes, and always will be, one of the most p!ss-poor of the nu metal bands.... I mean, they ALMOST called their last album "2 Minutes to Midnight" :lol: :lol: I bet that WAS the working title until it dawned on Shinoda that every single Iron Maiden fan in the world would be out for their blood if he didn't change it...... :lol:
June 7, 200916 yr Fearne & Reggie play new divide finishing the chart show and i heard for first time. Awesome stuff but not their best. Will download now though :D
June 25, 200916 yr Linkin Park Moving On From Style Of 'Transformers' Track 'Over the next year or so, you're going to get a lot of different LP music,' Mike Shinoda says. By James Montgomery Say what you will about "New Divide," the brand-new Linkin Park track featured in the upcoming "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," but you can't accuse the guys of departing from their time-tested formula. The big, rocket-launcher guitars, the electronic fireworks, the vocal gymnastics — it's very much classic Linkin Park, the kind of tune that's helped move millions of albums and pack arenas around the globe. And if you're an LP fan, you should probably savor it, because from the sound of things, Linkin Park might be leaving songs like "Divide" behind for good. "We've got this song for 'Transformers,' and then sometime soon after this, Chester's going to be releasing a solo record called Dead by Sunrise, and that will be out towards the end of this year," Linkin Park MC Mike Shinoda said. "And then early next year there's going to be another Linkin Park record too. We've been writing a lot and all the stuff we've been experiencing and stuff we've seen — that stuff is all going into the songs. Over the next year or so, you're going to get a lot of different LP music, and I think you're going to get a lot of takes on everything that's been going on." And that "different" music starts with Bennington's Sunrise, a long-in-the-works project that the singer says will finally see the light of day in September. And in keeping with what Shinoda was saying, Bennington is warning Linkin Park fans to prepare to be shocked by what they'll hear. Oh, and to fire up their black lights too. "There's a stylistic thing that's different. With Linkin Park, we have a signature sound — you know it when you hear us. [Dead by Sunrise] does not have that feel. It has a completely different feel. Trying to describe that difference is like trying to describe the difference between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, you know?" he said. "They're both rock, but they're different styles. I'm confident in saying this next record is going to be the most challenging ... and complex and intriguing music that has come out of the Linkin Park camp. It's really dark. It's like post-apocalyptic 'Blade Runner' meets LSD." "I have to say, I'm really proud of Chester — he has his own style. ... You know how they say you can turn on Pink Floyd and 'The Wizard of Oz' and they go together?" Shinoda added. "You'll want to put this record on with 'Blade Runner' and 'Tron.' " "Or 'Blade Runner' and 'Tron' and 'A Clockwork Orange,' all at the same time," Bennington laughed. And then there's the matter of Linkin Park's new album, the follow-up to their ultra-successful 2007 epic Minutes to Midnight. Already described by Bennington as being a semi-conceptual piece, it now sounds as if the band is pushing the boundaries even further. "With working on Minutes to Midnight, we really broke out of our shell — we really discovered that we can lose our minds in our music, and we're going to keep going with that for this new one," Bennington said. "We're all creative in a lot of different ways. If you have more than one thing you're good at, or you have more than one style of doing one thing in particular, it helps keep the creativity fresh and new and keeps things rolling in a positive direction. If I was Bob Ross and I painted a forest scene every day, I'd get really good at painting a forest scene, but I don't know if I'd be very good at doing anything else." http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1614662/2...nkin_park.jhtml LOL at the ending sentence. :rofl: new divide is not gonna be on the album :s Oh well. :lol:
June 25, 200916 yr Departing from the 'Transformers' style is a good direction. :) I hope they go back to Hybrid Theory/Meteora style of music, even though I don't mind it being more heavy and different than last time. At least it will not be Minutes to Midnight-ish all over again. :)
June 26, 200916 yr I thought they were releasing a best of and new divide was gonna be the start of promoting it, i cant remember where i read that but whereever it was it probabaly wasnt true
June 26, 200916 yr I don't think they will release/plan of releasing a Best Of at this point. Maybe I can find a reliable source about that.
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