Breakdown Conspiracy
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- Feb 11, 2006
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- New Zealand
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You can't blame Rick Rubin for this shambles. Reinventing Linkin Park - the last bastions of nu-metal - is an impossible task, even for a music super producer with a Midas touch.
Minutes To Midnight is the first real stinker to have Rubin's name attached to it. And what a shocker it is, exposing a band that's had its head stuck firmly up its own arse for far too long.
Linkin Park's first new album in four years proves the chart pleasers are wallowing in nu-metal no-man's land. It discards the previously successful riff-rap-rock formula for 12 tracks of self-indulgent wishy-washy experimentation.
It's full of weak ballads (Leave Out all the Rest, Shadow of the Day, In Between), lame hip-hop (Hands Held High) and U2-style bombast (What I've Done). Only Bleed It Out's funky hand claps show any sign of progression or - gasp - sense of fun.
Funnily enough, Linkin Park seem to know how bad it is, bleating on about what a difficult album Minutes to Midnight was to make in the album's bizarre liner notes. Suck it up, losers.
Even lead singer Chester Bennington doesn't seem to like the new album. When he finally gets his heckles up on Given Up, he screams "Put me out of my misery" at the top of his lungs.
If only we could, Chester. If only we could."
**** him..just **** him.
So what if MTM aint the best theyve done, its not the last.
He needs to give No Roads Left a listen.
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EDIT: oops the tilte should read "the review", not interview.
You can't blame Rick Rubin for this shambles. Reinventing Linkin Park - the last bastions of nu-metal - is an impossible task, even for a music super producer with a Midas touch.
Minutes To Midnight is the first real stinker to have Rubin's name attached to it. And what a shocker it is, exposing a band that's had its head stuck firmly up its own arse for far too long.
Linkin Park's first new album in four years proves the chart pleasers are wallowing in nu-metal no-man's land. It discards the previously successful riff-rap-rock formula for 12 tracks of self-indulgent wishy-washy experimentation.
It's full of weak ballads (Leave Out all the Rest, Shadow of the Day, In Between), lame hip-hop (Hands Held High) and U2-style bombast (What I've Done). Only Bleed It Out's funky hand claps show any sign of progression or - gasp - sense of fun.
Funnily enough, Linkin Park seem to know how bad it is, bleating on about what a difficult album Minutes to Midnight was to make in the album's bizarre liner notes. Suck it up, losers.
Even lead singer Chester Bennington doesn't seem to like the new album. When he finally gets his heckles up on Given Up, he screams "Put me out of my misery" at the top of his lungs.
If only we could, Chester. If only we could."
**** him..just **** him.
So what if MTM aint the best theyve done, its not the last.
He needs to give No Roads Left a listen.
>
EDIT: oops the tilte should read "the review", not interview.