from backstage at the Skive Festival in Denmark.

MTV interview with Linkin Park (Part 9) - Powerless and In My Remains the most challenging songs to write on Living Things

Another interview that I think went a bit unnoticed, MTV has a 14 part interview with Mike, Chester, and Joe. make sure to watch the whole thing, especially parts 6 through 12 where they discuss lyrics, Castle of Glass, Until It Breaks, and more.

once the account gets to 3,000 followers, the next clue to the LP scavenger hunt will be given. spread the word!

the biggest interview about the new album thus far, here are some highlights. click the link to read the whole thing.

Shinoda and Bennington played five of the new songs for SPIN and sure enough, they felt like an improvement on an old family recipe (albeit one you’d most likely use to piss off the rest of your family). “Lost in the Echo” featured a staccato guitar attack, tribal drums, crystalline keys and some brutal screams, but it also interweaved contemporary sub-bass boom and clangy industrial effects. “In My Remains” is both dark and triumphant, built for an arena at the end of days.

The melancholic “Castle of Glass” offers a steam-engine chug and a mountain of sound while Bennington sings about being but a small crack in the titular edifice, illustrating belonging and futility in the same stroke. On “I’ll Be Gone,” his metallic vocals come from a character who’s either forced or chooses to leave home before the sun comes up. Amidst the lo-bit glitch and seismic stomp comes an unlikely cameo: strings courtesy of Arcade Fire arranger Owen Pallett.

“He’s incredible,” says Bennington, leaning back against the wall of the studio. “You send him notes and he’s immediately like, ‘I just sent you the track. Like, five minutes ago. It’s done.’ “

Last but not least, they cue up their upcoming single, “Burn it Down,” a seared but still high-sheen slab of cross-pollinated pop driven by four-on-the-floor pump and the pulse of guitars and synths irreparably fused together. Shinoda delivers his bars with force and finesse, and joins Bennington to sing: “We’re building it up to break it back down / We’re building it up to burn it back down / We can’t wait to burn it to the ground.” Are they talking about a relationship? Music? Society?

“Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we’re onto something special,” says Bennington. “That’s when the hair starts standing up. We don’t sit down and go, ‘People are uneasy about the economy. Let’s write about that.’ We got a little more poetic, a little more colorful this time. A lot of the songs revolve around people — a drifter, or a soldier returning home, or a child finding his or her place in the family.”

“Some of these songs started off really mellow,” says Shinoda. “Some sounded very electro, and a few were folk, essentially. It’s bizarre to remember that now, hearing what’s so clearly a mix of all of our influences. Our tastes have gotten even broader since we started, if you can imagine that. It’s like wrangling kittens.” Bennington weighs in: “It’s also what we’ve based our career on — that we have a little bit of something for everyone. That’s been our little fountain of youth.”

so, to sum it up, new album in June, with 5 confirmed tracks:

Burn It Down

Lost In The Echo

In My Remains

Castle Of Glass

I’ll Be Gone, featuring strings by Arcade Fire arranger Owen Pallett

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