Their new album. Absolutely terrible. You either love the band or you hate them, but I've been a fan of everything they've ever done right from the beginning one decade ago. But this? It's beyond awful. It's very much a concept album, but it's such a departure that you could never identify a single song with being from Linkin Park. Minutes to Midnight was a departure for them, but it still very much had their voice and it paid off. A Thousand Suns is downright horrendous.
Charging your songs with political opinion is nothing new, injecting your lyrics with dread and destruction is nothing new. They should have listened to Trent Reznor's work and stuck to what they're good at. The lyrics are so badly written and cliched that they make Coldplay's sound good. Both guitarists are completely drowned out for the vast majority of the album and the amount of filler makes it a complete waste of money. It's barely an album at all in fact with so much of it being 'musical interludes' with audio snippets of protest speeches from long ago. The length of actual songs seem to be the band's compensation for lack of proper music, yet they're five minutes each loaded with techno beats that sound like they came from cheap computer software. And there is zero balance vocally between Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington.
Wow, what a disappointment. I waited two years for such an insipid waste of time and money.