New Linkin Park track

The mass unit shifting rock machine Linkin Park has released the first single, ‘The Catalyst’ from their forthcoming album A Thousand Suns. The track shows a slight accentuation of the U2-isms of Minutes To Midnight as well as the political and societal undertones. But ‘The Catalyst’ doesn’t sound a thing like, say, ‘What I’ve Done’. It in fact owes a great deal to Chester Bennington’s beat-led side project Dead By Sunrise with the guitar being almost mute, opposed to the heavy radio anthem vibes that permeated the last album. Any hope of the return of Hybrid Theory’s bounce and youthful recklessness is quickly dispelled by this single’s overtly serious demeanour.

Be wary if you are looking around online for this track as several fan remixes have been released with some posing as the original track.