Linkin Park - From Zero (November 15th, 2024) • Page 33

They're having a big listening party at a bar here in Oslo Friday night, with quizzes and prizes, while previous LP music plays for a few hours, before they play From Zero at 9pm. It's free too; think I might go.

 

Anything else on here as boring as the last single or is that the worst track?

 

oddly enough, i think Mike is the weakest part on this song (and most of the album, tbh). his flow feels forced on some tracks, and the lyricism a tad generic (but LP has never been the bastion of incredible lyricism either).

 

Yeah, it does feel like Mike is phoning it in quite a bit on here which is really surprising to me as he's been killing it with her solo releases. The Emptiness Machine is no doubt the biggest track on here from a single perspective.

 

Two faced is prolly one of the best songs on the album

 

Weak attempt at One Step Closer.

 

I dig this one

 

Yeah it sounds like a Figure 09 x One Step Closer mashup.

Still feel weird to see them harken back to their early sound this much. Not necessarily in a negative way, I just never thought they'd make something that close to it after distancing themselves from that style for so long, even though the chorus is more The Warning (or probably Dead Sara) ish to my ears.

Seeing Brad with his red PRS again hits the nostalgic spots.

 

this and HITC are the closest on this album to the first two albums. there's a bit of every album here, but most of it sounds like some of their mid-career work

 

They fucked up.

If you buy and download The new $4.99 digital expanded edition Album they just put out you can listen to the entire album right now

 

Link??

 

I've long thought and surmised that the push away from the early "nu-metal" sound into the more poppy territory had a lot to do with Chester, and from seeing how personally hurt he was by the blowback to One More Light -- not to mention these new songs moving much more toward an aggressive sound that we haven't had from LP in years -- only supported that theory .

 

-in park

 

holy shit yeah just did it and the full download was in the confirmation email

 

FROM ZERO DIGITAL EXPANDED EDITION

dont know if its fixed or not.

its a flac file download

 

Did you all have to sign up or something? I didn't and got an email with a link but it just takes me to a page to view my order. I don't have any download anywhere I can see.

 

I feel betrayed.

 

they fixed it

my download link was both in the email sent and the receipt page on warners website

this is what my email looked like

 

Fuck, and I can't get my money back.

 

Got my hands on it anyway, old school like.

 

My thoughts after one listen are a little scattered.

I'm still not happy about the whole Emily scientology thing, but casting that aside and judging this on its own merits, I feel like the album this most feels like is Living Things.

It's old school in areas, but funneled a different way than Hybrid Theory or Meteora. Casualty makes me think of previous punk/hardcore efforts like War and Victimized, and Overflow sounds very different to me than anything they've done before.

Then again, Two Faced is absolutely a One Step Closer ass song, although I'm not complaining. I think they needed to incorporate some of that old fire to make this a true rebirth.

And I appreciate that Emily doesn't sound like she's trying to be Chester. They use her voice for what it is where they can and in turn she definitely makes the songs feel like Linkin Park, but she also sounds like she's doing her own new thing in places, and I feel like I'm interested where they go with that.

Good Things Go, very very solid closer, and IGYEIH (which I suspected from the jump stood for I Gave You Everything I Have) is such a nice loud angry number to precede it.

Back to Casualty a moment: was that Mike? And has he ever considered fronting a hardcore band? Actually kind of made me think of Page Hamilton for a moment. Didn't know Mike had that in him.

Anyway, the one complaint I have is that it's over far too quickly, being their shortest album, and since it plays it so safe, that leaves me feeling a little wanting. I miss the more offbeat experiments for them like Castle Of Glass, and I hope future albums leave them feeling secure enough to return to that well.

As it is though, it's a warm blanket of a listen, and I definitely want to listen to it again.

 

i feel like the closest to this we got was Overflow. i really wanted more like that. i also agree re: length. scrap the intro and possibly Cut the Bridge and give us like 3 extra songs that sound completely different and it would be even better.

 

Or keep Cut The Bridge and give us more songs because it's not like there's not room for all of them.

I agree the intro is pretty weak though. Just another dumb "hey, let's knowingly wink at the album title" intro that some bands love for some reason.

 

They have said they might release more songs next year