The biggest Linkin Park fans, you’re in luck! The legendary American metal band, who announced the release of a new single, Friendly Fire, about three days ago, have revealed details of their upcoming album. This is an album in which they will bring together all their greatest hits, from the early 2000s until last year, and will include around twenty songs. The name of the album will be Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) and will be released on April 12.
Among the songs that make up this compilation album, the members of Linkin Park have selected some of the group’s most classic and famous songs. Some of these singles charted. This is for example the case of a new song absent from the album Meteora which allowed the Californian group to return to the top 10 of the Billboard.
Singer and co-founder of Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda said: “When I make each album, I want to completely love and believe in each song. I hope that if a song is heard privately in the world, it’s something I can be proud of and something that is ingrained in the listener’s mind. and be part of the energy that connects us.
Regarding the composition and release of Papercuts, Shinoda He also explained that “selecting the songs was a joy. Each song in this collection is both a special moment in our timeline and an evolving story, ours and theirs. From our first release, One Step Closer, to the new Friendly Fire, this playlist covers all of our chapters to date. Thank you for being part of our journey. We hope you enjoy Papercuts.
About “Friendly Fire”
As the group’s lead singer explained, before releasing the compilation album, Linkin Park covered Friendly Fire with a single they recorded in 2017, for which they did all the recording for his latest work in the studio, One More Light. This single was released in a never-before-seen way, showcasing the astonishing vocals of Chester Bennington who passed away in 2017.
Guitarist Brad Delson explains “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 the storytelling, the power of the singing, the soundscape and I think it was closer than maybe we thought at the time.
Complete list 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