During Linkin Park's recent tour stop in Korea, the band took some time to sit down for an interview with Kompas TV, an Indonesian broadcaster also known as The Compass, which has now released the interview on YouTube. Quite notably, this is technically the first full-band Linkin Park interview since their chat with Zane Lowe in early September. Phoenix, Emily Armstrong, Joe Hahn and Colin Brittain are seen hanging out together with a network host, while Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson are both beamed in remotely from other locations. Throughout the interview, Kompas TV reporter Malaikha Kridaman (also appearing remotely) gets the band to speak on various topics, with Armstrong reflecting on personal experience being in the band so far, and Shinoda commenting on the challenge of keeping Linkin Park's tightly-planned return a secret. Also of particular note is the band members giving us some brief and measured descriptions of the upcoming album From Zero, due November 15. Shinoda mentions that From Zero sounds like "Linkin Park in general" as opposed to pointing to any one of the many dimensions the band has shown throughout their varied discography so far. He also says that the album is "very energetic", something no-one should be surprised about given the singles so far, but that it has even more variety to offer than those singles have revealed. Adding to this, Phoenix highlights the track "Overflow" as "a different type of song" amongst the others on the album, and calls it one of his favourites. You can watch the whole Kompas TV interview here. Source: Kompas TV on YouTube via @Qwerty19
Mike looked really happy whilst talking about the new album and the other songs on it. I think we may be surprised a bit on a few occasions. It gave me a good feeling at least!
I agree, Mike has been as enthusiastic about the new album as he as ever been. My favorite part of any interview so far, regarding the new music, has been in the one below. Starting at 14:20, the way he briefly talks about the album just conveys tons of excitement, and that's so cool to hear. .