You helped me understand. You might not find glaring similarities between LP and Architects on a cursory listen but vocalist Sam Carter was another musician who laid bare his influences in tribute to the late singer. My biggest vocal inspiration and reason I wanted to start singing. Rest in power. And sometimes that inspiration runs both ways. Imagine going from listening to the Grease soundtrack to listening to that! Since they exploded onto the scene in , Linkin Park have had an undeniable impact on generations of rock and metal fans….
Linkin Park. Svalbard in The K! Code Orange release crushing new single Out For Blood. Just in case you were wondering: yes, Code Orange are still really aggro…. By some measures the last top dog that rock ever bred, the California group is often spoken of as an embarrassing artifact of George W.
Bush—era cultural crudeness. The pop landscape that has emerged may bewilder Bono, but space has opened up for male fury in more malleable forms than ever—and such fury seems to be, for better and for worse, in plentiful supply. A DJ who went by the name Mr. Hahn threaded in nerdy-cool electronic sounds; the drummer, Rob Bourdon, hammered with comforting steadiness; and a bassist who called himself Phoenix shellacked on an ominous tint.
At the outset, a music-box ballerina spins, a woman cries into a bathroom sink, a pretty keyboard melody plays, and Bennington screams. The crying woman appears to be in an abusive relationship, and the scrawny singer, his hair in peroxide-blond spikes, seems to narrate her emotions.
His verses are soft and mannered. Her nose is pierced, as is his lip. Professional critics found such works mawkish, and heavy-metal purists dissed Linkin Park in crasser terms— gay or, yes, girly. The musicians were genre benders, stitching patches of hard rock, hip-hop, and new wave to a veil of soft, velvety pop.
They had young fans and female fans, and young female fans. And they had Bennington: capable of lullaby gentleness and perpetually fixated on his own victimhood.
T his blend , rather than betraying the history of emotionally aggrieved popular music, fulfilled a tradition of complicating the ideal of strong, silent masculinity. New wavers like Depeche Mode knit the supposedly frivolous and fey sounds of disco into their gloom. Rock misogyny remained alive and well, but these maneuvers encouraged men to communicate in ways that would previously have gotten them labeled wimps. If the results were ugly, so was the subject matter: pain and trauma, expressed in even more personal terms than before.
Seeking to emulate his hip-hop heroes, Mike Shinoda wanted to give A Thousand Suns a three-dimensional sonic makeup, largely unlike anything heard in rock before. Wretches And Kings feels like the ultimate fruition of that mission. The lead single from Minutes To Midnight was a forthright goodbye to their nu-metal roots. Critics at the time saw it as a move away from metal altogether, in pursuit of the more middle-of-the-road mainstream appeal of outfits like U 2 now that the initial subgenre bubble had burst.
With the benefit of hindsight, its easier to understand it as an evolutionary step from a band with the daring to leave behind a formula with which they had conquered the world — and continued to win. The initial single for Meteora dropped to unheralded levels of expectation in early , with ravenous fans having waited two-and-a-half years for a proper follow-up to Hybrid Theory.
In an era before streaming or even YouTube had properly taken off, a banner ran on Kerrang! TV to let fans know it had arrived and would be on heavy rotation. Hell, it even managed to crack the UK Top 10 singles chart. Perhaps not the best song on the record, it was nonetheless a towering musical statement with one foot in the high-angst of the Hybrid Theory era, while the other stretched forward, reaching for what was next.
A reckoning on guilt and self-loathing, it sees Chester attempting to come to terms with the demons of his past: namely a teenage abuse of methamphetamine, with its tendency to conjure hallucinations, anxiety and the unsettling sensation of something moving beneath his skin. Listening now, of course, its message is overloaded with poignancy.
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