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Linkin Park 'Challenge' Themselves On New Album
'Nobody else is making a record that sounds like this,' Mike Shinoda says.

Forget all the talk of "concept records" and "grandiose insanity." On their new album, Linkin Park are going back to their roots in order to make the most challenging record of their career.

On Tuesday, MTV News spoke to LP co-frontman Mike Shinoda about his band's just-launched Download to Donate for Haiti project and, in the process, we managed to get some new information about the band's much-anticipated follow-up to 2007's Minutes to Midnight, which has been in the works for more than a year now. And while he still maintains that LP will be doing their fair share of growing on the new record, it's important to know that they're also not ignoring their past — quite the opposite, in fact.

"The album is going really well — we decided to go with Rick Rubin again, he's been in the studio with us. And we've been working in a different studio than we did the last record in, we decided to go back to the studio we did Hybrid Theory and Meteora in," Shinoda said. "It's been going great, I feel like it's an entirely different process and an entirely different style of music than anything we've done before. It's hard to place. People keep asking me, 'What does it sound like?' and it's hard to describe. When people hear it, they're going to have a tough time saying that it falls into a category.


And while talk like that might freak out some of the band's core audience, Shinoda cautions that it's just part of the natural growth of the band. After all, they've been doing this for more than 13 years now.

"I'll say this: I think on the last record there was a lot of personal growth that happened. We individually broke down a lot of boundaries — creatively and personally — with each other. We were friends making an album together — it wasn't painful and heart-wrenching the way some of the other records were," he said. "We had a really good time making Minutes to Midnight, and now I feel like we've grown from that point, where we've kind of knocked down the boundaries to a place where we're making an album that has a sound, that has a consistent thread running through it, and we're making something with this open-minded creativity that feels good."

But the still-untitled album (which Bennington told MTV News late last year could be out in June) isn't going to be some hazy, lazy conceptual thing, some by-product of a bunch of well-heeled musicians' studio wonkery — far from it. Even though they're one of the hugest rock bands on the planet, Linkin Park still feel like they've got something to prove, even if it's only to themselves.

"We make records as a challenge to ourselves," Shinoda smiled. "And the challenge this time is: 'Nobody else is making a record that sounds like this, only we can do it.' "



Source: MTV News

 

I was tempted to post that but to be honest it's nothing new. We've already posted a couple of similar interviews in the past few weeks were Mike has talked up the new album...posting this would just be repeating ourselves.

But if any of the staff feel like it's newsworthy then go right ahead.

 

New Linkin Park Site is officially up.
Source: Linkinpark.com

 

That background is horrid.

 

sooo.... no 8-Bit Rebellion in January I take it? today is the last tuesday of this month, dammit!

 

Oh boy.

 

It appears that the guys are holding a contest for spreading the word on Download to Donate

http://bulletins.myspace.com/index....n.read&authorID=21591889&messageID=6632368634

 

Mike's iGoogle theme!

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?...glecode.com/svn/trunk/xml/artist_mshinoda.xml

Add it up boys and girls!

 

Found this on Linkin Park Times (sorry, they didn't post the link and I really couldn't find it). It's the same old same about Download to Donate and stuff. One new, let down and I guess unsurprising thing is that the new album is now targeted at the end of the year.

 

2011, here we come.

 

Do you have an offical article or anything, or is it just hearsay?

 

If that's true... *sigh*. I don't even feel like finishing that sentence.

In other news, Mike hooked up with The Roots last night.

http://mikeshinoda.com/2010/01/31/jamming-with-the-roots/

 

Well, I did put a link out there, here's it again (it's in part 2): http://lptimes.com/news2010/jan/Mike_GrammyWeekend_WestwoodOne_1.html

Mike said that they've got "the album coming out probably towards the end of this year".

 

Thanks for the link but unless the band comes out and gives a significant piece of info about the release date i.e. an exact date or month or it being pushed back til 2011, I don't think it's wise to speculate. We know so far it's coming out this year, lets leave it at that.

 

It was me and I didn't attack you. It sounded like it's "estimated" by the band and I couldn't find the source, that's why it even began. But it's a case closed for me.

As for this, I know it's not newsworthy, just wanted to point that out, hope that's ok I did it in this thread.

Personally I think there's no debate about the possible release date. As long as I remember delays (even if related only to guessed dates) are always true and this comes straight from the source... so no album until the end of the year that has just begun.

 

Well...IMO, the extra time didn't really do much for them on MtM. They could have branched out into different genres in a much shorter time. I expected a much more refined sound even with the increased number of genres with the 4 year gap between Meteora and MtM, so this extra time shiz doesn't do much for me.