To get down to the dozen tracks on the new album Minutes to Midnight, the members of Linkin Park made about 150 demos. "A lot of that stuff ended up straight in the trash, to be honest," says vocalist/emcee Mike Shinoda, who co-produced the band's first new studio disc in four years.
"But they were great experiments. We wouldn't have ended up with these 12 if we hadn't done the messing around with the sounds on the first batches."
The six members of Linkin Park have never approached new projects half-heartedly. And Minutes to Midnight amounts to a full-scale reinvention of the group's sound, away from the rap rock of multiplatinum albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora and toward nuanced songwriting that still incorporates hip-hop-infused hard-rock grooves.
"Those two albums were, in a sense, brothers, and we felt like doing another in that vein would be redundant," Shinoda says. "So we picked up and moved."
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