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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicLinkin Park A Thousand SunsA wonderfully crafted concept album that will awaken all your senses and leave you wanting more. A lot of people like to pigeonhole a band based on the success of their most popular album and its sound. Hybrid Theory was a monster of a nu-metal album for Linkin Park and they followed it up with a similar, but more polished album in Meteora. This was the point where things started to change. No longer happy to be just plodding along in the nu-metal bracket, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda made the decision to make the music they wanted to write and the beginning of the rebirth of Linkin Park. Gone were the nu-metal riffs, harshly screamed choruses and snappy raps and in their place were intricately crafted samples, clever and emotional lyrics and heartfelt rapping. Minutes To Midnight was a good album - just not the full evolution of Linkin Park. A Thousand Suns now is that evolution. From the haunting and menacing samples of Oppenheimer, Savio & Luther King speeches to the interlude tracks filled with sounds of gunfire and explosions, A Thousand Suns is the mother of all concept albums and songs like The Catalyst, Burning In The Skies, Iridescent and Blackout are epic tracks worthy of being on any concert setlist. The rock genre was crying out for a band stuck in a creative rut to break down the walls of constraint and finally treat us to an album worthy of their masterful creativity and talent. A Thousand Suns is one of the best albums in the past ten years from the rock genre - quite simply it is the pivotal moment of Linkin Park's career and with the bar set this high it will be interesting to see how they follow this up. BUY THIS ALBUM!!
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