Linkin Park's long-awaited and much talked-about third studio album, Minutes To Midnight, will arrive in stores sometime past 12:01 a.m. on May 15.
The disc was produced by the band's Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run DMC), who won this year's Grammy Award for best producer for his work with the Dixie Chicks. It was recorded at the Mansion studio in Laurel Canyon, California.
Linkin Park wrote more than 100 song demos and spent more than 14 months in the studio working on Minutes To Midnight.
They think that it was worth the wait and all the work.
"We wrote in new ways, and used instruments and equipment we hadn't experimented with, from vintage guitars and amps to mellotron to Rick's original 808 drum machine he used on the Beastie Boys first record," says Shinoda. "We tried to question every step in our songwriting process.
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Rubin says the band tried to reinvent themselves on the Warner Bros./Machine Shop album.
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