It doesn’t look like we will hear a metal or even a rock tune from Linkin Park anytime soon. For instance, look at their brand new song “Good Goodbye,” another collaboration piece, this time with Pusha T and Stormzy. As we get closer to the forthcoming album One More Light out May 19th, the band continues to support their new pop direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8j3w1ywGEc
Recently All Things Loud interviewed Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and he managed to warn fans expecting any, y’know, rock on their forthcoming album:
“I think it’s silly that people are already posting reviews on an album that they haven’t even heard. They can’t review a single song, only an album, so they go to the whole album and give a review based off of one song. They haven’t heard the album, so that’s really funny. Once the album comes out and people see it live I think that they’ll be provided with so much more context. Just hearing any song, like Heavy, is just one piece of the whole. That said, though, if the only thing you want to listen to is ESP guitars through a rectifier amp then this is not the album for you. Come to a show, though, because there are songs in the set which are for you! This is not your album, though.”
ESP guitars noticed this entire interview and their brilliant response will leave you laughing for a good amount of time.
They shared the following response on their website:
“ We’re pretty mellow people at ESP, but we were a little taken aback, at first, when the online magazine All Things Loud published an interview this week with Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. The all-caps headline of the interview, which you can see for yourself here, screams, “LINKIN PARK’S MIKE SHINODA: “IF YOU’RE EXPECTING ESP GUITARS, THEN THIS ALBUM IS NOT FOR YOU””.
We all thought, “Wow, that’s a really bizarre thing to say! What does that even mean?” But then we looked at the context of the interview itself, where Shinoda was explaining the differences between Linkin Park’s new lighter, poppier sound and the expectations of their fans who enjoyed their previously guitar-driven music. He stated, “Just hearing any song, like Heavy, is just one piece of the whole. That said, though, if the only thing you want to listen to is ESP guitars through a rectifier amp then this is not the album for you. Come to a show, though, because there are songs in the set which are for you! This is not your album, though.”
Okay, fair enough. Once we realized what was being said, which was that ESP Guitars is the iconic representation of the powerful sound of heavy music, and that was exactly what people shouldn’t expect from the new Linkin Park album, we got it. And then we checked out one of the songs from this album, and… yes. Yes indeed. Mike is correct; that is not the sound of ESP Guitars. Most definitely not.
So, in short, ESP is pleased to announce we won’t be on the new Linkin Park album, though of course we wish them the best in their ongoing endeavors.”
[Via Rockfeed]
