One of nu metal’s longest lasting groups Linkin Park are due to return with new material that they boast will be “really cutting edge”.
Way back when, around the turn of the Millennium, groups across the world began detuning their guitars and wearing their trousers around their knees. Taking on board a token turntablists, these bands soon began rapping and lo! The nu metal scene was born.
Fast forward almost ten years and there is little sign that this scene even existed. However a revival could well be on the way, with Limp Bizkit playing a highly successful comeback show in Latvia and now Linkin Park planning a new album.
Of course, Linkin Park never really went away. Buying a tub of eyeliner the band went all emo on our ass with 2007’s ‘Minutes To Midnight’ album, but their new album apparently sees Linkin Park taking yet another daring move.
Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine the band’s frontman Mike Shinoda claimed that the music scene as it stands is stagnant. “People just want junk food. They want throw-away junk food music that’s going to make them lethargic and fat. McDonalds is great once in a while, in moderation. Eat it every day and you just turn into a slob.”
Oh really? Please continue…
“We feel the same way about music. We want to hopefully move even more into being able to make more substantial music, and we’ve always been capable of it, but sometimes, there were different things that we got excited about on each record, about what we wanted to write and what we wanted to make and what kind of statement we wanted to make.”
“On this record, we’re definitely paying attention to the substance and the nuance, and we hope to make something that’s really cutting edge and really different.”
Continuing the somewhat bizarre food reference, Shinoda said:
“This album will be the kind of food that’s foreign to you, that you haven’t had before, and when you first taste it, you’ll go, ‘This doesn’t taste like anything else I’ve had, but I think I like it.’ We’ll have to make the record and see.”
In a new blog posting Shinoda had a very short message to music fans with long memories.
“Dear People Who Insist On Calling It “Nu Metal,”
Seriously? You’re so 2004.
Love, mike
LOL”
Linkin Park are set to release their new album sometime next year.
