"We know that Exodus exists, right? So we're not going to say we wrote a 'heavy' record, in comparison." "We know that Slayer exists," seconds Shinoda. You have to put it in the context of Linkin Park, not in the context of heavy music, because then it makes sense." "This isn't the heaviest record in the world," Bennington says, "but this is the heaviest Linkin Park record. If they'd released this album back in 2001, perhaps Linkin Park - who head out on the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds to Mars and AFI on August 8 - wouldn't have had to work so hard to win over the Ozzfest crowds that summer. But now they're ratcheting the kick-ass up another notch: Their new album, The Hunting Party, is not only the hardest and heaviest thing they've ever released, but it's also their first album to pack the sort of guitar firepower that would actually appeal to your average headbanger. Thirteen years after being steeled in the crucible of Ozzfest, and millions of record sales later, Linkin Park have grown into one of America's biggest rock bands. "Even if they didn't like our music," adds Bennington, "we wanted them to go away saying, 'Man, that was a kickass show!'" "We'd have the stage for maybe 30 minutes, and we spent the entire time trying to get them on our side." "I think a lot of those Ozzfest shows were like that," laughs Linkin Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda, as he and Bennington relax and reminisce with Revolver outside their North Hollywood rehearsal space in May 2014. Even the angry fat kid in the front row who doggedly chants "Fuck you! Fuck you!" throughout most of the set proves no match for Linkin Park's steady assault by the time the band leaves the stage, he's slumped exhaustedly over the stage barrier like a doughy rag doll… Though Linkin Park's songs, drawn entirely from their 2000 debut Hybrid Theory, are more pop- and rap-oriented than many of the metalheads in attendance would prefer, the band's high-energy performance - which includes Bennington whirling about the stage while wrapped in a Canadian flag - eventually wins over most of the once-antagonistic audience.
Video of War - Linkin Park (The Hunting Party)Īnd yet the band plays on, feeding off the crowd's energy and blasting it right back.
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