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First the good news: Linkin Park's fourth album, 'A Thousand Suns,' is refreshingly creative, thematically intriguing and sonically bleak. Instead of returning to the rap metal formula that has proved successful for most of their career, they've gone even further into the introspective alternative zone they explored on 2007's 'Minutes to Midnight,' an album that owed as much to U2 as to Nine Inch

Linkin Park once again teamed with super producer Rick Rubin for their new 'A Thousand Suns' album -- to absolutely dazzling results. Arguably their most mature release, it's a compelling work both sonically and lyrically. How did they achieve these results...

Linkin Park, whose new platter 'A Thousand Suns' hits shelves this Tuesday, performed tonight at MTV's Video Music Awards. Only the band didn't perform at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles like all the other acts. Instead, the California rockers served up a thrilling version of their new single, 'The Catalyst,' at a 'secret' satellite location, which turned out to be the Griffith Observato

Klaus Thymann A new Linkin Park album is always an event in the rock world. The band's new album, 'A Thousand Suns,' hits stores on Sept. 14. It's been three years since 'Minutes to Midnight,' so fans are clamoring for more from the California rockers...

Warner Bros. 'The Catalyst,' the lead track from Linkin Park's forthcoming 'A Thousand Suns' album, might be the most musically sophisticated piece of music the band has done yet -- an intricate, complex wave of emotion that moves through multiple shifts in tempo, from the aggressive beat throughout to the beautiful piano denouement...

Hard rock powerhouse Linkin Park will release their fourth studio album, 'A Thousand Suns,' on Sept. 14. The album was co-produced by vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. The disc will be the follow-up to 2007's 'Minutes to Midnight,' which was also produced by Rubin...

The new Bullet for My Valentine track 'Your Betrayal' is a pretty good microcosm for the rest of the album. The track, which was recently posted on the band's MySpace, exhibits the band downplaying their thrash roots and heading in a more commercial metal direction...

Hollywood Undead are one of the few newer gold-selling -- that's 500,000 copies sold -- bands in today's faltering music industry! They are working on the follow-up to 2008's sleeper hit, 'Swan Song.' If you've not been exposed to Hollywood Undead yet, they Los Angeles based band is like a darker, edgier Linkin Park...

When you're a super huge band like Linkin Park and you go out on huge arena tours, very often, you secure insurance in case something goes awry and the band is forced to cancel a spate of shows. The insurance provides the band with a safety blanket, if you will, enabling them to recover profits lost as a result of the gig cancellations...

For Linkin Park fans, the band simply can not release enough material. The second they get a new studio LP from the Park, they're already asking when they can expect the next one to come out. So to hold fans over until the eventual release of the follow-up to 2007's 'Minutes to Midnight,' Linkin Park are dusting off their archives...