Linkin Park World Premiere "Guilty All The Same" on Shazam, And Blow Our Minds Completely

Album in June/early summer has been known for a very long time. Joe Hahn basically told a fan last year they were aiming for summer, and the band has been saying summer for the longest time. So a June release date is hardly news or anything new.

Good to see it confirmed though.

 

I think that the odds of getting a release date before the end of the month are good.

 

So what constitutes as "a true fan?"

 

I tried so hard (and some would even say that I got so far) in attempting to take you seriously, but then reading your screen name made me realize that in the end? This post doesn't even matter.

 

The last line in the post talking about Limp Bizkit really did it for me. A MUTHAFUKKIN CHAINSAW! WUT!

 

Apparently I'm the exception to that rule. I've stayed loyal to my favorite band since I first heard One Step Closer on the radio as a 16 year old struggling through high school in late 2000. Does growing and evolving with the band make you a "true fan?" If it doesn't I guess that means I'm a terrible fan.

 

Insert Jackie Chat "What!?" Meme here.

 

Yeah What I've Done was "generic", but that's because they were forced to write a single. Did you happen to listen to how creative the rest of the record was? Or were you too hung up on how it "wasn't nu-metal" anymore? We're not defending their honor. We're reacting to your silly comments.

The band has said previously that they were not being very original with Meteora. That it was Hybrid Theory Part 2. How anybody could be disappointed that the band has taken creative risks (that risked losing fans) because they didn't want to suddenly become a parody of themselves, is a total mystery to me. I just don't understand it, and have failed to understand it for the last THREE album cycles. Because you know what? This happens every album cycle. The band makes something that sounds nothing like their old music, and fans say they were 'abandoned' or accuse the band of being shit because they don't make nu-metal anymore.

I guess it's totally okay to keep making the same derivative and formulaic bullshit to sell millions of records, while eliminating their integrity in the process. As long as it sounds like their first album right? Because that's what the fans who act butthurt that the band 'changed' after Meteora are doing. They're telling the band basically to sell their souls to make a vocal minority happy. To get up on stage, and perform an uninspired duplicate of their first two albums, because at least that way those fans who refuse to grow up will be happy.

This has happened every album cycle, since MTM. It's been going on for basically 7 years. And yet, despite the band making it abundantly clear nu-metal will never, ever, make a comeback...we still hear them getting bitched out that they don't make music like their 'old music' anymore. I'm sorry but, boo fucking hoo. You want Meteora? Put in Meteora. This new album, won't sound a thing like Meteora and will be it's own new beast...and there's a lot of fans right now that are pretty happy about that and don't accuse the band of being generic cause they don't try to copy Hybrid Theory for the third time.