Brad Delson And Mike Shinode Talk About Meteora 20 And Lost Song

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JAKARTA - Brad Delson and Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda spoke to NME about the 20th anniversary of the Meteora album and Lost's missing songs.

Last week, Linkin Park released an expanded version of their 2003 album Meteora - featuring a number of unheard demos with behind-the-scenes footage and live shows.

"We want to make something eternal with Meteora, which is really brave to say or think about by a group of 20-year-old children," guitarist Brad Delson told NME. The hope is that this music has a long life and continues to inspire people."

"This is a very interesting moment for us right now, because we celebrate 20 years of a very special album but Lost is a song we created, liked and forgot and had moments like that," he continued.

Lost with the right title was recorded at the same time as Meteora but failed to find a place in this album.

"Taking up with the album is very important, and we feel Lost has too much energy similar to Numb," said Delson. "The original plan was to release the song moments later, either as a bonus song or on the third album."

"We made an unexpected change with [the 2007 album] Minutes To Midnight and then we made more changes from there, so we never had the habit of asking, 'Oh, what did we do five years ago?' so we really forgot about Lost..

The song was rediscovered when the band brought everything together for Meteora 20 and was released earlier this year. It later became Linkin Park's highest single charactering in the UK since 2009 and topped the Radio Alternative and Radio Rock charts in the US.

"I don't know how people will react to it," said Shinoda, who was worried that the real influence of the Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and the music of the new wave of the 80s might make Lost sound like a setback. I think there is confusion about this youth, which will always be connected.