Chester Bennington died two years ago today. Revisit 12 of Linkin Park's key tracks, from rap-metal smashes to daring pop departures
sums up Linkin Park’s utter disregard for stylistic boundaries, alternating rap-like verses from Mike Shinoda with Chester Bennington’s fist-pumping melodic-rock refrains. “When it finally came together,” Shinoda toldof the song, “I said to the band, ‘I don’t think anyone but us could have made a song like this.
“Burn It Down” opens in a haze, its whirring synths eventually coming together into a heavily processed keyboard line that recalls a gauze-swaddled inversion of the riff powering 2000’s “In the End.” The album it introduced, the Rick Rubin-producedwas, in some ways, a back-to-basics shift from the heady concepts and genre-melding sprawl of its 2010 predecessor “In the past, we’ve consciously steered away from what we’d done before, but here, the energy is clearly similar toin 2012.
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