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[Strakt]

Linkin Park - Heavy feat. Kiiara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp00DMy3aVw

Linkin Park - Battle Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ab595h0AU


LINKIN PARK - GOOD GOODBYE FT. STORMZY AND PUSHA T

http://hiphop-n-more.com/2017/04/linkin-park-good-goodbye-pusha-t-stormzy-new-song/

Linkin Park - Invisible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_gWiwAWrA


New Album

LINKIN PARK - ONE MORE LIGHT
MAY 19, 2017

01 Nobody Can Save Me
02 Good Goodbye
03 Talking to Myself
04 Battle Symphony
05 Invisible
06 Heavy Ft. Kiiara
07 Sorry for Now
08 Halfway Right
09 One More Light
10 Sharp Edges​


New song sounds very generic and different, but the female vocals make up for it imo

Edit: fked up title, should be one more light

 

[FZZ]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

 

[Dead Prince]

what year is this

 

[kmax]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

I'm still holding on.

 

[Strakt]

what year is this

My calendar says 2017

 

[dickroach]

huh, so that's what Linkin Park sounds like now? sounds like any other shit I'd hear on the radio.

 

[RoKKeR]

20 seconds in the fuck is this...I actually really liked their last album.

I'll give the album a chance but damn, I don't like this at all.

Edit: It didn't get better. Wow.

 

[RDreamer]

Hmm... I was actually surprised how much I liked modern Linkin Park when I tried out their last few albums, but I don't know about this. It's not bad, but it sounds like really generic pop.

 

[Maaaaaardy]

Lmao, it's a no from me. Utter shit.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

01 Nobody Can Save Me
02 Good Goodbye
03 Talking to Myself
04 Battle Symphony
05 Invisible
06 Heavy Ft. Kiiara
07 Sorry for Now
08 Halfway Right
09 One More Light
10 Sharp Edges​

Yep. Sounds like Linkin Park tracks.

lol @ Good Goodbye.

EDIT: Heavy sounds like gargled garbage spat out during a bad summer reunion with a hip-hop producer.

 

[Kayo Police]

Wrong Band Sorry

 

[AkirraKrylon]

huh, so that's what Linkin Park sounds like now? sounds like any other shit I'd hear on the radio.

Check out "The Hunting Party" which is their most recently released album (2 years ago I think?). Much different than this song/direction.


That's kinda LP's thing for the last 5 albums at this point. They're always trying different stuff.

I don't necessarily like this particular song (don't hate it either) but I respect them for pretty much doing something different each album.

 

[Vanillalite]

Boring pop song in a landscape full of great pop songs these days.

I get they aren't angsty young kids anymore, but there is so much other space they could explore that more fits their wheelhouse.

 

[jax]

Damn it I read this as one last single.

 

[RDreamer]

huh, so that's what Linkin Park sounds like now? sounds like any other shit I'd hear on the radio.

It actually isn't really. Their last few albums are different from their first few, but it's not like this at all.

 

[unpopularblargh]

Sounds like a Chainsmokers song...

 

[Weetrick]

what year is this

Did you hear the new Incubus track?

 

[royalroyal]

*searches transformers 5 release date* ahhh that makes sense.

 

[zeemumu]

Reminds me of how A Thousand Suns seemed so different compared to what we know them for

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

A minute in and this is sounding ok so far.

 

[xRaizen]

Ugh, definitely not what I was expecting.

 

[ComputerBlue]

What a terribly generic song.

 

[j-wood]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

I'm with you. I love reanimation and would kill for a sequel in that same vein.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Yeah, it's alright but way too repetitive.

 

[Khrno]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

And that day I will like Linkin Park again.

 

[_Ryo_]

Disclaimer: I understand music is subjective so these are just my own opinions.

Getting tired of people complaining about LInkin Park doing pop.they have been doing pop since the beginning, they're just not doing a bunch of angsty songs with excessive power chords anymore.

They're never going to go back to nu metal. Get over it, everyone. XD

BTW A Thousand Suns is their best album.
Meteora is literally one of the worst albums I've ever listened to.

Later half of Living Things is great.

The Hunting Party is meh for the most part.

Love Kiiara's vocals in Heavy.

 

[zeemumu]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

I'm expecting Green Day to attempt American Idiot 2 any day now given the current state of things

 

[MMarston]

huh, so that's what Linkin Park sounds like now? sounds like any other shit I'd hear on the radio.

gotta admit though, it's a hell of a transformation from circa-2002 LP.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

I don't think you want a Nu Metal album in 2017. LP could always do what Deftones did and go in a Melodic Metal.

 

[Seik]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

Not today.

Yeah, I think that's wishful thinking so far.

Anything explains the change of style though? I never had the opportunity to read about that...is it because Chester cannot scream anymore? By scream I mean, old school LP scream.

 

[Strakt]

I personally love how each album is different from the last. Hopefully other songs on the album are good.

 

[Crispy]

Ugh...can't stand this. Especially the overly emotional crackly voice singing. Didn't make it to the end of the track.

 

[nan0]

"Hey maybe this actually sounds decent like The Hunting Pa...nope."

 

[zeemumu]

Not today.

Yeah, I think that's wishful thinking so far.

Anything explains the change of style though? I never had the opportunity to read about that...is it because Chester cannot scream anymore? By scream I mean, old school LP scream.

Pretty sure he screamed in Keys to the Kingdom in Hunting Party. I don't know how much of that was him and how much was the distortion though

I think they're just trying something else.

 

[MMarston]

Not today.

Yeah, I think that's wishful thinking so far.

Anything explains the change of style though? I never had the opportunity to read about that...is it because Chester cannot scream anymore? By scream I mean, old school LP scream.

Last time I heard a few years back, I think they just became genuinely tired of the older style plain and simple.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Not today.

Yeah, I think that's wishful thinking so far.

Anything explains the change of style though? I never had the opportunity to read about that...is it because Chester cannot scream anymore? By scream I mean, old school LP scream.

I think Chester killed his voice during A Thousands Suns.

 

[AfterTheFall]

Wow, this sounds like another song you would hear on the damn radio. Couldn't make it all the way through, sorry guys.

 

[Khrno]

what year is this

This kind of attitude disgusts me.

So a band should only be active for a couple of years? Regardless if you like them or not, what's with that attitude? It's great that bands don't fade out after just 5 years, they all have fans and someone will listen to their music even if they change their style so good for them.

 

[UnluckyKate]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

true taste

 

[FlaygletheBagel]

Can't listen at the moment since I'm at work but I'll try it out tonight.

Been an LP fan since Meteora, and ever since Minutes to Midnight came out, my first impression after listening to every new album has been "What the hell are they thinking?" with the exception of Living Things, which I actually thought was a relatively natural combination of their old rap-rock style and the electronic stuff they had been flirting with.

I almost always grow to appreciate their albums on repeat listens, but my first impression is almost always negative. GAF's impressions of this song aren't giving me much confidence that's about to change.

 

[Sai-kun]

generic as fuck production

disappointing

their last album was pretty shite too though so i'm not super surprised.

 

[Beefy]

I remember when they were heavy.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

Hunting Party was solid enough and I actually liked how creative and experimental A Thousand Suns was... But this is just generic pop like Maroon 5 or some shit.

 

[Hydrus]

This is complete crap. What happened to these guys? They had a somewhat original sound with their first two records and seemed to be going in a great direction.

 

[kirblar]

The problem with LP came when the rapper vocalist started being a part-timer, right?

 

[Already Torn]

Finally we'll have a soundtrack for all the "Fuck. It's all over." posts in Trump threads!

 

[Ouroboros]

One day there will be a Hybrid theory or Meteora 2

Spoiler

Or better yet Reanimation 2

One day....one day....

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

The Hunting Party had like 2 duds so I'm holding out hope.

This is complete crap. What happened to these guys? They had a somewhat original sound with their first two records and seemed to be going in a great direction.

Rap Metal is dead.

 

[spliced]

When did Linkin Park turn into Maroon 5.

 

[Sillution]

What... What is this single I am listening to....