A Thousand Suns

The “hybrid theory” Linkin Park introduced back in 2000 has evolved. Songs like \"The Catalyst\" showcase something more majestic, less tied to hip-hop, and exponentially more symphonic. The components that make Linkin Park one of the new millennium\'s biggest rock bands — the piano-based heartbeat, the chainsaw-guitar roar, the synth and drum machine pyrotechnics, the Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington throat-shredding interplay — are magnified on this album co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda.

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Continuing their slow crawl toward middle age, Linkin Park opt for moody over metallic on A Thousand Suns, their fifth album.

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Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns review: An extremely well-crafted rock album from a band whose (self-directed) anger is, for once, well placed.