Two words - Orchestral Rock. While there's the usual guitars and drums, there's also the use of violins, cellos, violas and so on. I don't think that's much of a common style used, and I think LP would handle that well.
I'd like them to do a dnb album or metal mixed with dubstep (its a brand new concept intersting nobody tried that)
My gut tells me their going to do a really big hiphop record at some point. I definitely see another rock record as well. But experimental ones.
Prog-Rock/-Metal Symphonic Rock/Metal Radiohead-esque stuff Experimental, weird stuff Hip-Hop driven stuff
Dance/Progressive Rock/Hip-Hop/J-Rock Sounds damn near impossible to get that in one song but a man can dream
Linkin Park should make another album that sounds just like One More Light. That would be the last thing fans would expect. Everyone expects them to change their sound so making One More Light part 2 would be unexpected. In fact they should name it One More Light Part 2. No one would see it coming.
I guess I didn't catch it somehow, and I admit with the mike emote, I should've caught it. But you don't need to be an ass about it, no offense.
They can do whatever they want. I just want to see them collaborate once with Muse and Coldplay. It seemed far fetched 10 years ago. But now with all the different sounds they've explored, it wouldn't be that hard at all for them to collaborate. Also, would love another experimental album like ATS. Not musically same but something which had a big concept and was connected start to finish.
I'd really like to see them go in a more indie-folk-country style for the next album. Something like The Lumineers or something. I think they could really nail that sound and I'm a big fan of that kind of music. It would definitely piss off a lot of the ''rock'' fans of the band, but I think it would be great.
My bet LP8 would come around 2020, 3 years after OML. There's a possibility that it could be in line with ATS as to what ATS been labeled as "The New Hybrid Theory" back then. HT will be turning 20 by that time and ATS will turn 10 (Jeez, how time flies so quickly) but my prediction is that they will release LP8 somewhere that timeframe to coincide these monstrous events. And for the sound that they would try to explore will be the strings and orchestral elements (as seen back in the day during Meteora sessions; circa 2002). Since those things never came to fruition except Breaking the Habit, the band should revisit that and hire an external producer this time to push beyond their capabilities as a band. No more Rubin this time.