Rock N Roll

According to the band’s frontman, Chester Bennington, it was a friend’s idea to make a concept album. Though he wouldn’t discuss the concept in detail, he said he was looking forward to the challenge. Linkin Park plan to enter a recording studio before December to track the as-yet-untitled effort and that it will take six weeks to record the new album. Chester Bennington also wouldn’t share what Linkin Park’s upcoming material sounds like. Chester explains,

“Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.. It’s almost impossible. I can tell you that it’s our first stab — and perhaps our only stab, depending on how good we do — at creating a concept record … In terms of describing what it sounds like … it sounds like peanut butter and jelly. It’s sounding delicious.“

Anyway, Chester Bennington relates their concept album saying, “For me, you say the words ‘concept record,’ and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something. There’s a story, and everything has to relate to that story … It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to. It couldn’t have come strictly from us — an outside source brought it to us in a way that was exciting.”