Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

[Misawa]

Their new album. Absolutely terrible. You either love the band or you hate them, but I've been a fan of everything they've ever done right from the beginning one decade ago. But this? It's beyond awful. It's very much a concept album, but it's such a departure that you could never identify a single song with being from Linkin Park. Minutes to Midnight was a departure for them, but it still very much had their voice and it paid off. A Thousand Suns is downright horrendous.

Charging your songs with political opinion is nothing new, injecting your lyrics with dread and destruction is nothing new. They should have listened to Trent Reznor's work and stuck to what they're good at. The lyrics are so badly written and cliched that they make Coldplay's sound good. Both guitarists are completely drowned out for the vast majority of the album and the amount of filler makes it a complete waste of money. It's barely an album at all in fact with so much of it being 'musical interludes' with audio snippets of protest speeches from long ago. The length of actual songs seem to be the band's compensation for lack of proper music, yet they're five minutes each loaded with techno beats that sound like they came from cheap computer software. And there is zero balance vocally between Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington.

Wow, what a disappointment. I waited two years for such an insipid waste of time and money.

[samsaBEAR]

I am a huge fan of LP, and even though I didn't really like MTM, I was still pretty stoked for this album. Is it worth giving a go at least?

[Misawa]

As am I, but if you didn't like the departure that was Minutes to Midnight, I think you'll positively hate A Thousand Suns, and this is coming from someone who did ilike MTM.

[RedStratocas]

tbh i dont understand how linkin park still has a fanbase, even up to their last album, i thought the phase of nu-metal bands with obnoxious misspelled names died like 8 years ago.

[RandomManJay]

Linkin Park as literally my favourite band, and I have to say I was quite disappointed with A Thousand Suns. Althought Minutes to Midnight wasn't exactly their best, it had a few decent songs on it. But there is only really one song on their new album I like, and it isn't all that good :(. I expected more from them with this album as they seem to spend so long making them. A part of me wishes they would go back to what they used to do, which I absolutely loved.

One thing I'm really annoyed with is that it's like they've done away with instruments. I love a bit heavy guitar in my songs, but its just full of computerised effects and slight drumming in the background :S.

[Jamesy]

I liked Minutes to Midnight, and I approached this with an open mind. Aside from a couple, I'm not really enjoying this album to be honest.

[Pyroka]

I'm a huge fan of Linkin Park (i'm serious huge) and there was only two songs on this album that even remotely impressed me: Wretches & Kings and The Catalyst.

Apart from that, really disappointed. If you take out all of the speeches and filler beats, that album would be stupidly short. It's a serious disappointment, but at least their Underground material is still pretty funny.

[peteyt]

Haven't heard much of it yet but if I just heard it lets say on the radio I probably wouldn't realise who it was.

I suppose a lot of bands these days get sick of doing the same stuff, and want to break out, sometimes sticking to the same thing can become repetitive but sometimes it works - look at AC/DC

[KyoraStryker]

Linkin Park was awesome during their Hybrid Theory/Meteora years. Once they did that Reanimation crap with Jay-Z, it completely killed my tolerance for them.

They tried to redeem themselves (at least in my opinion) with Minutes to Midnight, and while I admit that a couple of the songs on MTM were good, my opinion on LP remains the same.

I don't think I even want to give their new album more than a cursory glance.

[samsaBEAR]

Linkin Park was awesome during their Hybrid Theory/Meteora years. Once they did that Reanimation crap with Jay-Z, it completely killed my tolerance for them.

They tried to redeem themselves (at least in my opinion) with Minutes to Midnight, and while I admit that a couple of the songs on MTM were good, my opinion on LP remains the same.

I don't think I even want to give their new album more than a cursory glance.
Reanimation wasn't with Jay-Z. Reanimation was a remix album between Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Collision Course was the album done with Jay-Z

[KyoraStryker]

Eh, I knew it was something like that. In either case, it doesn't change my opinion.

[surfer]

I like their older stuff, however this album has completely destroyed any feelings I had left for them. Fair enough for trying something different.. but don't change too much.

[hmv]

Sounds bad, I'll probably just listen to a few of the songs on YouTube and see if I like it before buying it. I heart LP.