The most die-hard fans of Linkin Park you are in luck! The legendary American metal group, which already announced the release of its new single about three days ago Friendly Fire, have revealed the details of their next album. It is an album in which they will collect all their greatest hits, from the beginning of the 2000s until last year, and which will be made up of about 20 songs. The album title will be Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) and will see the light next April 12th.
Among the songs that make up this compilation album, the members of Linkin Park They have chosen some of the band’s most classic and famous songs. In fact, some of these singles managed to sneak into the charts. This is the case, for example, of lostunreleased song included on the album Meteoraand that allowed the California group to return to the top 10 of Billboard.
The singer and co-founder of Linkin Park, Mike Shinodahas stated that “when making each album, I want to love and believe in each song completely. I hope that if any song is heard on its own in the world, it is something that I can be proud of and something that takes root within the listener.” and becomes part of the energy that connects us.
About the creation and release of Papercuts, Shinoda He also explained that “selecting the tracks was a pleasure. Each song on this collection is both a singular moment in our timeline and an evolving story that is both ours and theirs. From our first release, One Step Closer, to the new Friendly Fire, this tracklist covers all of our chapters so far. Thank you for being part of our journey. We hope you enjoy Papercuts.”
About ‘Friendly Fire’
As the band’s vocalist explained, before releasing the compilation album, Linkin Park coat Friendly Firea single that they recorded in 2017, at the same time that they did all the recording of their latest studio work, One More Light. This single, which was released in an unprecedented way, highlights the great vocal power of Chester Beningtondied in 2017.
Brad Delsonguitarist, explained that “when we started looking for an unreleased song to include in our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of storytelling, the power of the voice, the soundscape and actually I thought it was closer than perhaps we had realized at the time.”
Complete setlist of ‘Papercuts’
- Crawling
- Faint
- Numb/Encore
- Paper cut
- Breaking The Habit
- In The End
- Bleed It Out
- Somewhere I Belong
- Waiting For The End
- Castle Of Glass
- One More Light
- What I’ve Done
- QWERT
- One Step Closer
- New Divide
- Leave Out All The Rest
- lost
- Number
- Friendly Fire
