Lots of press surrounding the band and A Thousand Suns over the last few days, check out some great interviews below. Chester Video Interview With 101.9RXP - Watch Here Watch a great three part interview with Chester from today where he discusses the recent happenings with Linkin Park. Mike Interview With Noise Creep - Read Here Read in full to hear Mike go into detail about Waiting For The End, The Catalyst and many other subjects. Check out an excerpt below. "'The Catalyst'; we picked that as the single because we felt like it was the best indicator of the change in sound and direction that this record was gonna bring. I don't think, to be honest, there's any song on the record that's gonna sum up the whole record. So it wasn't like this is an indicator of how the whole album sounds, it was just an indicator of the change that was happening." Mike Shinoda Interview With Examiner - Read Here Mike does a good job of describing the sounds heard on A Thousand Suns amongst other subjects, read the full interview above and check out an excerpt below. "That first track, “The Requiem,” is actually made up of sounds that you’re about to hear on the album. There’s a Juno pad that appears a little bit in that that also appears in “Journada Del Muerto,” and the pad is the main pad underneath “Blackout.”" Rockerrazzi Interview With Mike & Joe Part 2 - The Catalyst [YOUTUBE]sZN8HsLKDT4[/YOUTUBE] Source: MSC | bLePn
Them choosing TC as the first single, and for their reason, definitely confirms that LP doesn't care what people think. If they cared all about sales, Waiting for the End would have been the first single. But no, they wanted to put out a song that showed their change. I love that.
There was a really short interview with Chester on a music channel today. He just spoke about listening to the album without having expectations about what it should be like. He also says he loves the way music allows people to let their inhibitions go. He said it's cool the way some people cry when their fave song is performed and when some people go nuts and take their clothes off lol.