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Rockers Linkin Park will release their new single, Burn It
Down, to radio on 16 April. The track comes off the band's fifth LP, which is
being recorded now. According to The Pulse Of Radio, Linkin Park singer Chester
Bennington recently appeared to have admitted that the band went too far with
the experimental, heavily electronic sound of its last album, "A Thousand
Suns". Speaking with Kerrang! magazine about the band's forthcoming CD,
Chester said, "With this album, we've incorporated a lot of guitar work
with big choruses and the heavier electronic stuff to give it that really big
wall of sound feeling without getting too metal. This will be more familiar to
people than 'A Thousand Suns' was, where we were like 'Fuck it, we're just
going to go bonkers." Mike Shinoda told The Pulse Of Radio at the time
that the band were glad they went in a new direction. "I think we were
just at a point where we’re hearing out things out there in the music world, a
lot of stuff that was kind of boring us," he said. "The music that we
were writing that sounded like something that Linkin Paark would do was kind of
boring us. And we wanted to really challenge ourselves to try something that
felt fresh and exciting." As for "Burn It Down," well, Chester
said the band chose it as the first single mostly because it showcases
everything they're hoping to accomplish on the new disc: a combination of their
crackling, crushing past and their ethereal, electro-tinged present. And while
we can't reveal any details about the "Burn" video just yet, we'll
let Bennington tell you all about the new song: "All of our songs take
these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes
songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions. ... Other
times, they'll start out as beats, and the next thing you know they kind of
evolve over the course of the making of the album," he said. "But
what's interesting about this track is the really high energy and the really
strong electronic melodies and hooks kind of set this song apart, which is why
we chose it as our first single. "We've kind of drifted into a lot more
kind of electronic, digital feel, but what's interesting about this record is
that a lot of songs - people might pick up on this - but a lot of the songs
kind of were started as these folk-driven songs," he continued. "So
there's a very organic element to the record, as well as a very modern, kind of
futuristic element too. We can't wait for our fans to hear it."
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