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Good news, Linkin Park fans - the band have announced that they have a ‘mountain of material’ for their next album. Could a tour be coming soon too?
The band are due to release their follow-up to 2014’s The Hunting Party in the latter stages of 2016. The band confirmed the release in January of this year. The band’s DJ, Joe Hahn said: "We have a mountain of material".
The band's guitarist, Brad Delson, added, “It's been a real just organic flow and I'm really excited about the music that's being created.” In a conversation the band had with Billboard.
Talking at a charity poker tournament, Mike Shinoda admitted, “Usually the music comes first and the words come second, even if it's 30 minutes apart, that's usually what happens - the music inspires the words," he said. "And in this case it's mostly the words and melodies first, no track." He then added that their music writing process has been 'backwards' compared to usual.
The band have been focusing more on words and melodies this time as opposed to genre according to Delson, who said: "We've focused almost exclusively on songwriting, not on sound, not on genre, not on arrangement, on words and melodies,"
The band announced their return to the studio earlier this year. Linkin Park posted a picture of vocalist, Chester Bennington, in a vocal booth with the caption, 'back to work this week'.
