After the band's co-frontman Chester Bennington was hospitalized after a viral infection, Linkin Park regrouped and went on tour with The Prodigy. The boys made some time for the fans who can't afford to come at their shows and bring a huge explosion in a newly released music video for their latest single "Burning in the Skies," which is the official third single taken from their latest chart-topping fourth album "A Thousand Suns."Keeping the ball rolling with new material, Linkin Park followed up with the cool, calm and collected "Burning In The Skies." The Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda produced track features Linkin Park's trademark industrial programming and ethereal soundscapes, but trades in the distorted guitars and fire-throated screams for latin rhythms and a restrained, though emotional vocal delivery. The lyrics are awash with references of ruin and appears to be a self-chastising lament for mistakes of the past. Plaintive as the songs lyrics are, Linkin Park has delivered an upbeat track that could play just as easily on any pop radio station.
The final night of some people before huge explosion hits their cities is the main focus in this Joe Hahn-directed music video, which has a unique scenario, it depicts the final activities of various groups of people, before being caught in the blast radius of what appears to be a nuclear explosion, that changes the lives of people. The video follows the lives of different persons until they all reach a common 'tragic' end, we can see people in their daily routine: A family, husband and wife, watching television, a group of young people at a party, a girl reading in her room, a child who doesn't want to sleep, playing with a flashlight and two lovers in a car looking at a city, Everything stopped in the sky... but suddenly!
With fifteen years and over 50 million albums sold worldwide, the California rap-rock evolutionists are now trying "to do something different from our other albums, with a focus on making some stuff that's more experimental, and hopefully more cutting-edge," Shinoda said of "A Thousand Suns." Bennington knows the Grammy Award-winning band's challenging mix of rock, hip-hop and electronic sounds has plenty of critics. Rap-metal is, by and large, a pretty stale bizkit. Yet Linkin Park have outlasted the genre's brief '90s boom, consistently pulling digestible melodies from staticky storm clouds of sound. Bennington says his mellower vocals on "Burning in the Skies" reflect his hunger to grow as a singer.
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