Linkin Park are touring their new album A Thousand Suns and I saw
them perform from well... where you are supposed to, just in front of the mosh-pit of jumping, swirling, sweaty bodies... just in front, being a lady and all!
Linkin Park came to success in the year 2000 with their debut album Hybrid Theory and back then their sound was a combination of nu-metal rap, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda interspersing screaming and heartfelt vocals and rap respectively. The lyics then were centred mostly on personal relationships and the angst associated with them. Over the following three albums the lyrics have become more socially and politically aware, they've grown up!
Fittingly the members of Linkin Park entered with the chilling introduction from the new album The Requiem reverberating around the arena. A robotic (female) voice pleads "God save us everyone, will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?" An environmental or nuclear power message perhaps? This is followed with Wretches and Kings (also from the new album) a heavy and industrial sounding track that asks us to consider a social machine where "the people up top push the people down low, fists start pumping and we're away!
With the tone set, the band moved backwards and forwards through the highlights of 10 years of their music, interweaving the angry more hardcore-sounding tracks with the beautiful ballads that showed off Chester's amazing vocal ability. There wasn't a lot of banter from the two frontmen, a few hello's and thank you's but as their songs were delivered with passion and energy I didn't find myself looking for that extra bit of personality, which I often find myself wanting at a live gig.
This was the second time I have seen Linkin Park and I am pleased to say this performance lived up to my expectations. Linkin Park respect their fans by performing a variety of songs from all of their albums, which seems like a no-brainer - but sadly I have been to more than one gig where the 'talent' seem to forget they are performing for their paying fans and not for themselves.
4.5/5
Set list:
Linkin Park came to success in the year 2000 with their debut album Hybrid Theory and back then their sound was a combination of nu-metal rap, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda interspersing screaming and heartfelt vocals and rap respectively. The lyics then were centred mostly on personal relationships and the angst associated with them. Over the following three albums the lyrics have become more socially and politically aware, they've grown up!
Fittingly the members of Linkin Park entered with the chilling introduction from the new album The Requiem reverberating around the arena. A robotic (female) voice pleads "God save us everyone, will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?" An environmental or nuclear power message perhaps? This is followed with Wretches and Kings (also from the new album) a heavy and industrial sounding track that asks us to consider a social machine where "the people up top push the people down low, fists start pumping and we're away! With the tone set, the band moved backwards and forwards through the highlights of 10 years of their music, interweaving the angry more hardcore-sounding tracks with the beautiful ballads that showed off Chester's amazing vocal ability. There wasn't a lot of banter from the two frontmen, a few hello's and thank you's but as their songs were delivered with passion and energy I didn't find myself looking for that extra bit of personality, which I often find myself wanting at a live gig.
This was the second time I have seen Linkin Park and I am pleased to say this performance lived up to my expectations. Linkin Park respect their fans by performing a variety of songs from all of their albums, which seems like a no-brainer - but sadly I have been to more than one gig where the 'talent' seem to forget they are performing for their paying fans and not for themselves.4.5/5
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- Papercut
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- One Step Closer
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