Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

My problems: Tom Morello and Rakim's pointless guest spots, stale production, some cringeworthy lyrics, Chester Bennington's vocals aren't exactly up to par, and the replay value just isn't there anymore.



Still, I enjoy this a lot and I'm excited for their next album.

Album Rating: 3.0

I guess its raw for linkin park standards but that says nothing

Actual criticisms:

nothing lyrically here worth hearing I FUCK UPEVERTHING I SAYAUYAAY

"raw" is not raw it's just them turning up the gain knob a bit on their guitar

vocal effect in the beginning of keys to the kingdom is stupid

boring song arrangement

all for nothing sounds like a shitty nofx sum 41 song with raps

"this is take a shot time" what

chorus on this thing is fucking horrendous

i like how in every intro they put a dissonant drum line in because it's a SUPER EEPIC BUILDUP

chester benningfuck is still wrst sounding vocalist ever

guilty all the same sounds like a shitty a7x bside performed by some middle school band

Album Rating: 4.5

They recorded/produced solely by Mike and Brad but it's brick walled even harder than any of their albums produced by Rick Rubin which is fuckin strange.



While the album is still really good, they really should have went all the way through with this change and completely ditch their roots because they genuinely could have put out something more radical than what they were aiming for (although now that I think about it more, it's probably the record label who forced them to keep some semblance accessibility). I really hope they go further with this sound on the new album or I'm still going to be bitter about Rob not recording a blast beat for a LP song because as he shows on this album he's perfectly capable of doing one now that he's grown so much as a drummer

summoning is probably the best song on this thing

SUPER PUNK SONG CALLED WAR WWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW

1 2 3 4 FIGHT GFIGHT FIGHT FIGHT OIOI WAAAAR

Album Rating: 3.0

""raw" is not raw it's just them turning up the gain knob a bit on their guitar" [2]



Tho I'll give them credit where credit is due I'd rather hear them with the gain slightly up than whatever the fuck living things is

Album Rating: 3.0

I mean it's obviously been processed but not to the extreme of their other albums

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

^ you're not wrong

Album Rating: 3.0

*Their 5 albums before



Like, giving credit where credit is due. The bassist is audible on this album in places so

chill dude it's a joke lmao

but i mean it is a legitimate point that if you aren't that used to raw sounds you call things that aren't raw "raw" as an exaggeration or misunderstanding.

Album Rating: 3.0

I mean ala did it so it's pretty clearly a joke



Not a funny one but still

read the edit at t he bottom

and yes it's a joke i don't really give a shit about what you think of a meh band tbh. i just think you're exaggerating with the "raw" statement and honestly your music experience may or may not have to do with that. Most of the albums you've 5'd are "raw" from a pop standpoint but not much else. When you see a correlation like that you point it out. So it was a joke but also a point. No trolling.