Is Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory) DeaD?

[Friðbjörn]

I've never honestly heard much other real influence other than rap, rock (various styles of course), and electronic (again, various)

aside from maybe BTH and reanimation.

 

[xXMelancholiaXx]

I hope they go more to Metal or something, not Nu-Metal, just Metal, or pure Heavy Rock, I don't like this passionate stuff too much, I like it, just not as much as the old stuff

Yeah I've been hoping they go in a Heavy Metal or Metalcore-ish direction for a while. But I don't really think it's going to happen.

 

[Friðbjörn]

I think it would be cool to see. I mean LP has all the influences from all over (I mean from within electronics, rock and rap), so they could become this chameleon band, changing styles between albums etc, like they did for MTM

 

[Cyro]

The concept the band had on the name "Hybrid Theory" wasn't combining rock and rap. It was about combining ALL different styles of music. The new album still has that, violins, cellos, banjos, all of that. So Hybrid Theory is just as alive now as it was when it was first created nine years ago.

Actually, I could argue this statement... Linkin Park, in many of their interviews from around the time of as early as 99 all the to 2004, usually cited a balance of rock, rap, and electronic music, as opposed to everything, lol. It was only awhile after the end of Projekt Revolution that LP started talking about doing something completely different for their new album.

I also don't think LP envisioned an album quite like MTM when they were in the process of writing and recording Hybrid Theory EP.

But hey, these are all my idea's/theories.

Anyways, I love Minutes to Midnight. But I also love LP's old style as well. I grew up on it since the beginning of the new millennium almost seven years ago, and I do kind of miss it.

Elvture <=( serioulsy LP have never not been mainstream (cept back in the day as HT and Xero) as it so happens the kids never really rated their indie efforts n loved the mainstream efforts. So yah =P LP have never been ground breaking Rock and Hip Hop have been co-insiding since the late 80's (Run DMC & Beastie Boys) the was even a SOUNDTRACK to Judgement Night which put Rap acts together such as Cypress Hill with EXPERIMENTAL ROCKERS Sonic Youth. So yah u cant even say experimental rock n rap have never been done before =)

Oh... and I think in a way they were ground breaking. They really blew up the formula they used with two separate vocalists, one for rap, and one for singing. Selling over 38 million albums worldwide and 8 #1 Radio singles will get your sound to many more people than past efforts of Rock/Rap in the 80s.

Besides, I think there's more to it when its built that way from scratch as opposed to mashed together like the Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth thing you mentioned. Run-DMC and Beastie Boys sound is far different than LP as well. There is no band with the sound quite like LP.