JAKARTA - Linkin Park has released eight studio albums since debuting 25 years ago. Seven of them are part of work with the late Chester Bennington, while the rest is a new beginning featuring Emily Armstrong.
Regarding these albums, Mike Shinoda mentioned two Linkin Park albums, Hybrid Theory (2000) as his debut album and "Minutes to Midnight" (2007), as the most difficult album in the work.
"I think the 'Hybrid Theory' is difficult to make. 'Minutes to Midnight,' our third album, is also quite difficult to make," Shinoda said during an interview with the Broken Record Podcast some time ago.
Shinoda said that making a debut album was difficult because the process was so short. Even the third album, done in a very long time.
"'Hybrid Theory' because it's short, fast, and everyone likes to fight us in every way," said the rapper and vocalist of Linkin Park.
"And 'Minutes to Midnight' was difficult because it was very slow and long, and like 18 months and 150 demos, and we were heartbroken to try to overhaul our band," he added. "So, because we have those experiences, I think we are able to take advantage of the best point of view."
Despite having a difficult time working on an album, Shinoda said the personnel still enjoyed every moment they had.
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Furthermore, while reflecting on Linkin Park's discography, Shinoda mentioned several important songs, which he felt could summarize his journey to band.
"In general, I would say some songs that I am very proud of and I think really summarize this band. Most fans know that I like 'Wating for the End' from 'A Thousand Suns'," said Shinoda.
Papercut' is the first song on Hybrid Theory for a reason. We know the song is Linkin Park's best characteristic. The song has all the characteristics of everything we do and we will do it for a while."
From the list of songs, Shinode appointed In The End, the fourth single from his debut album, became the most special song for him from many Linkin Park songs.
"There's a reason why people like 'In the End', 'Nump', and 'What I've Done', even when we're not done yet. When we're working on it, I remember creating piano, verse, and chorus melody for 'In the End', and playing it for our drummer, Rob," he said. My story is like this, I basically created a sensory deprivation room. It's a windowless place with a terrible and absolutely disgusting sofa. And I just sat there and wrote until I didn't even know what time now."
"And the most interesting thing I got was 'In the End', and he said, 'This is the most special song.' He said, 'I really dreamed of a song like this for our album.'"
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