A Thousand Suns
Occupation
- Vocals, rhythm guitar: Chester Bennington
- Drums, percussion, backing vocal: Rob Bourdon
- Lead guitar, keyboard, backing vocal: Brad Delson
- E -Bass, Backing Vocal: David Farrell
- Turntables, Keyboards, Samples, Backing Vocal: Joseph Hahn
- Vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, samples: Mike Shinoda
A Thousand Suns (English for: "A thousand suns") is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Linkin Park. It was released by Warner Brothers Records on September 10, 2010. It placed itself in Billboard at number 2 of the best hard rock albums of 2010.
Formation
Mike Shinoda, David Farrell and Joseph Hahn began in October 2008 in order to work on two songs. They planned a concept album, what Chester Bennington unsettled first. Later, he finally was able to make friends but with the idea and thought it was an inspiring idea with which it could be many things that she wanted to write, publish. He also announced that the start of the recording studio in December 2008 and the publication was planned for mid-2009. However, end of March 2009 Shinoda wrote on his blog that the band hope that Bennington's album Out of Ashes will be released in the fall and they can bring the new Linkin Park album in spring 2010 on the market.
Content
In the album utterances important men of history were used. So in the song The Radiance is an excerpt of an interview with Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist and developer of the atomic bomb, in Wisdom, Justice, and Love a speech by Martin Luther King on the Vietnam War and in Wretches and Kings an excerpt from a speech by Mario Savio, civil rights activists to hear. Several songs on the album overlap in the texts, so among other things, the two songs The Requiem and The Catalyst and the songs and Fallout Burning in the Skies.
As in previous Linkin Park albums like Minutes to Midnight (2007) find several transitions between songs instead of flowing, so even when the military dominated Empty Spaces and the following, from a complex drum track driven When They Come for Me playing Linkin Park in concert with the guitarist Brad Delson and vocalist Chester Bennington on several drums to adjust the drum track sound as close to the album. '
Publication
Earlier on July 8, 2010, Linkin Park announced that they want to release their fourth studio album A Thousand Suns, on 14 September 2010; in Germany it should be on sale just four days earlier. The first single The Catalyst was announced for August 2, 2010. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the single was released on 27 August 2010.
Just one month after the release of The Catalyst Linkin Park turned the titles Wretches and Kings those as MP3 download, who had pre-ordered the album A Thousand Suns on the band's homepage. The second single is the song Waiting for the End, for a demo version for 30 seconds was put online, on 3 September 2010. Finally, the Single Burning The next single was released on 1 October 2010. In the Skies was released on 18 March 2011, in the United States, the single, however, did not appear. As with the predecessors appeared with Iridescent also the third film in the Transformers series, a song by Linkin Park soundtrack single. The single was released two weeks before the soundtrack album on May 27, 2011. On 17 June 2011, the live DVD, A Thousand Suns appeared. It contains a recording of the concert on November 7, 2010 near the Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid both as a DVD as well as in MP3 format. In addition, the studio version of A Thousand Suns is included.
Title list
Criticism
Considered by many critics, it was referred to as a masterpiece, in part, the album was, however, strongly criticized because it removes much from the original nu-metal sound of the band.
In December 2010, the magazine was kulturnews A Thousand Suns "Best plate 2010" with the " Culture News Award". The company Allmusic gave two and a half out of five stars. The site Metacritic calculated on the basis of ten reviews an average rating of 66 out of 100 points, was generated rally Favorable reviews: corresponds to (Eng. mostly positive reviews ).
Laut.de writes: " Compulsive innovation at the expense of their own identity were never successful."
Also Plattentests.de criticized the new style, "It is by no means always the case that the Innovationswilligste is automatically the bravest. "