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Linkin Park: A Thousand Suns

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2010.09.08
Time:
 47:48
Category: Industrial Rock
Producer(s): Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.linkinpark.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] The Requiem (Linkin Park) - 2:01
[2] The Radiance (Linkin Park) - 0:57
[3] Burning in the Skies (Linkin Park) - 4:13
[4] Empty Spaces (Linkin Park) - 0:18
[5] When They Come for Me (Linkin Park) - 4:55
[6] Robot Boy (Linkin Park) - 4:28
[7] Jornada Del Muerto (Linkin Park) - 1:34
[8] Waiting for the End (Linkin Park) - 3:51
[9] Blackout (Linkin Park) - 4:39
[10] Wretches and Kings (Linkin Park) - 4:15
[11] Wisdom, Justice, and Love (Linkin Park) - 1:38
[12] Iridescent (Linkin Park) - 4:56
[13] Fallout (Linkin Park) - 1:23
[14] The Catalyst (Linkin Park) - 5:39
[15] The Messenger (Linkin Park) - 3:01

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Chester Bennington - Vocals, Percussion, Rhythm Guitar on [12]
Rob Bourdon - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Brad Delson - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals, Keyboard, Percussion
Joe Hahn - Turntables, Samples, Programming, Backing Vocals
Dave "Phoenix" Farrell - Bass, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer on [9]
Mike Shinoda - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard, Piano, Synthesizer

Rick Rubin - Producer
Mike Shinoda - Producer, Engineer, Creative Director, Pro Tools
Neal Avron - Mixing
Kymm Britton - Publicity
Anton Brooks - Publicity
Lindsay Chase - Production Coordination
Brad Delson - Pro Tools
Ryan Demarti - Production Coordination, A&R
Nicolas Fournier - Assistant
Joe Hahn - Creative Director
Jerry Johnson - Drum Technician
Liza Joseph - A&R
Frank Maddocks - Art Direction, Design, Creative Director
Ethan Mates - Engineer, Pro Tools
Vlado Meller - Mastering
Josh Newell - Engineer, Pro Tools
Czeslaw "Nobrain" Sakowski - Programming
Mark Santangelo - Assistant
Peter Standish - Marketing
Josh Vanover - Artwork, Creative Director
Ellen Wakayama - Creative Director
Tom Whalley - A&R

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'A Thousand Suns'

We were not making an album.

For months, we'd been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination.

We didn't know if any of those unorthodox ideas could be incorporated into a traditional album, but we knew we didn't want our next album to be predictable. Sitting together in the same studio where we made our first album, all six of us voiced a commitment to going out on a limb, to making something truly daring. We asked ourselves: were we all earnestly willing, more than ever before, to abandon the precepts of commercial ambition in pursuit of what we believe to be honest art?

The inclination to begin writing conventional songs for a conventional album came and went. The temptation to adjust our creative vision to fulfill expectations beyond our studio walls yielded to the audacious ambition of what we hoped to achieve as a band. The two years of making 'A Thousand Suns' marked our exhilarating, surrealistic, and often challenging journey into the creative unknown.

On the eve of its completion, this body of work, assembled through unconscious inspiration and unmitigated exertion, has revealed to us notions both stirring and surprising. The album's personified imagery is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story.

'A Thousand Suns' grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments.

Enjoy the music.

Linkin Park



Continuing their slow crawl toward middle age, Linkin Park opt for moody over metallic on A Thousand Suns, their fifth album. A clear continuation of 2007’s Minutes to Midnight, A Thousand Suns also trades aggression for contemplation, burying the guitars under washes of chilly synthesizers - a sound suited for a rap-metal band that no longer plays metal but hasn’t shaken off the angst, choosing to channel inward instead of outward. So few rap-metal bands have chosen to embrace their age - they fight against it, deepening their technical chops while recycling ideas - that it’s easy to admire Linkin Park’s decision not to shy away from it, even if their mega-success gives them the luxury to pursue musical risks. The problem is, the subdued rhythms, riffs, and raps of A Thousand Suns wind up monochromatic, an impression not erased by the brief bridges between songs, sampled speeches, and easy segues, every element retaining moodiness without offering distinction. Brooding is a better vehicle for angst than rage for a group whose members are well into their thirties, but an album created on a grayscale is less than compelling for anybody lacking the patience to squint and discern the minute details.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



A Thousand Suns is the fourth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released on September 8, 2010, under Warner Bros. Records. The album was written by the band, while production was handled by Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin who previously worked together to produce the band's third studio album Minutes to Midnight (2007). Recording sessions for the album took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California from 2008 until early 2010.

A Thousand Suns is a multi-concept album dealing with human fears such as nuclear warfare. The band has acknowledged that the album is a drastic departure from their previous work, as they experimented on different and new sounds for A Thousand Suns. Shinoda stated in an interview with MTV that the album references numerous social issues, as well as blending human ideas with technology. The album's title comes from the line "God save us everyone, we'll be burned inside the fires of a thousand suns" from the first single of the album, "The Catalyst". It is also a reference to the nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945, the flash of the detonation described by those who survived as "as bright as a thousand suns".

The lead single for the album, "The Catalyst", was sent to radio and released to digital music retailers on August 2, 2010. "The Catalyst" peaked at the Billboard Alternative Songs and Rock Songs charts, as well as reaching #27 at the Billboard Hot 100 upon the album's release. Three more singles were released to promote the album, namely "Waiting for the End", "Burning in the Skies" and "Iridescent". "The Catalyst" and "Waiting for the End" have been both certified gold by the RIAA. The band promoted the album through the A Thousand Suns World Tour from October 2010 to September 2011.

Upon release, the album was met with positive reviews, but it polarized critics and fans over the band's new direction. Despite this, the album has been a commercial success debuting at number one on over ten charts. The album was certified gold by the RIAA in February 2011.

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