Linkin Park has released a highly-stylized artsy video for their latest single, "Until It's Gone," which is chock full of symbolism relating to how the band feels about the music industry and the current state of rock. The melodic track is the second single from American rock band's upcoming sixth studio album, "The Hunting Party," due out next Tuesday (June 17), and will feature a heavier rock sound than normal direction compared to their recent ventures as a response to what band describes as the "passive" nature of new bands.
"Until It's Gone" kicks off with the sort of warbling synth effect that was the group's calling card on their 2000 breakthrough debut, "Hybrid Theory," but builds into a brooding, textured gloom rocker that reminds listeners, via lead singer Chester Bennington, that "[you] don't know what you've got until it's gone." The song is a more mid-tempo track with softer lyrics provided by Bennington, who really shows his vocal versatility. The dreamy and atmospheric sounds are enough to whisk you away but Bennington brings you back down to earth as he belts out their take on a familiar chorus. "As for the video, I think the monochromatic beauty and eeriness compliments the song well in one sense, it allows the music to fill in the color," bandmate Mike Shinoda said.
For the first video from "The Hunting Party" album, directed by the band's own DJ/programmer Joe Hahn, Linkin Park chose to get a little deep with the rock six-piece at an interesting crossroads. The clip finds the band members frequently performing the song silhouetted with images projected onto their faces. Often the images are smoke filled or featuring dilapidated structures, with the occasional shots of people in despair. Add that in with the post-apocalyptic, haunting keyboard sounds laid down by Hahn in the song, and the video has a very ominous feel to it.
"The Hunting Party" marks Linkin Park's attempt to inject some edge back into rock, a manifesto exemplified by the "Until It's Gone" video, according to Hahn in an interview: "The visuals have an aggressive edge to it that is the representation of the band as 'The Hunting Party.' We are the same guys you always knew but, a little older, weathered and experienced. The video has an undertone of the world going to shit. There is a black ooze that crystallizes the world. It is an infection. This black ooze is representing other music out there. We are merely here to fill in that sliver with the music that we bring. I guess you can say that we are filling a void."
"Until It's Gone" kicks off with the sort of warbling synth effect that was the group's calling card on their 2000 breakthrough debut, "Hybrid Theory," but builds into a brooding, textured gloom rocker that reminds listeners, via lead singer Chester Bennington, that "[you] don't know what you've got until it's gone." The song is a more mid-tempo track with softer lyrics provided by Bennington, who really shows his vocal versatility. The dreamy and atmospheric sounds are enough to whisk you away but Bennington brings you back down to earth as he belts out their take on a familiar chorus. "As for the video, I think the monochromatic beauty and eeriness compliments the song well in one sense, it allows the music to fill in the color," bandmate Mike Shinoda said.
For the first video from "The Hunting Party" album, directed by the band's own DJ/programmer Joe Hahn, Linkin Park chose to get a little deep with the rock six-piece at an interesting crossroads. The clip finds the band members frequently performing the song silhouetted with images projected onto their faces. Often the images are smoke filled or featuring dilapidated structures, with the occasional shots of people in despair. Add that in with the post-apocalyptic, haunting keyboard sounds laid down by Hahn in the song, and the video has a very ominous feel to it.
"The Hunting Party" marks Linkin Park's attempt to inject some edge back into rock, a manifesto exemplified by the "Until It's Gone" video, according to Hahn in an interview: "The visuals have an aggressive edge to it that is the representation of the band as 'The Hunting Party.' We are the same guys you always knew but, a little older, weathered and experienced. The video has an undertone of the world going to shit. There is a black ooze that crystallizes the world. It is an infection. This black ooze is representing other music out there. We are merely here to fill in that sliver with the music that we bring. I guess you can say that we are filling a void."
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