So, LINKIN PARK just released their seventh studio album One More Light, which according to the fans – f**king sucks. But I mean, all their material pretty much sucks to me.
Anyway, In a recent interview with Kerrang! Radio, band singer Chester Bennington says he’s willing to fight with anyone who thinks ‘they made a marketing decision to make this kind of record to make money’ or if you call the band a ‘sell outs’ – then Chester would like to fight you.
He says: “Either you like the song or you don’t and if you don’t like the song because you hear it and on a kneejerk reaction it’s like ‘oh it doesn’t have metal in it so I don’t like it’, that’s fine, like whatever.
“But if you’re gonna be the person who says like ‘they made a marketing decision to make this kind of record to make money’ you can f—ing meet me outside and I will punch you in your f—ing mouth because that is the wrong f—king answer.”
“Because guess what, calling us a sell out for that purpose is… selling out on your f—king excuse as to why you don’t like it. You’re a f—king pussy. For any band to take musical risks because you like what you’re doing in spite of what you know some people will say they don’t like, it doesn’t matter if they like it or not – what matters is that you took the chance to do something that you felt was important to you and that’s what being an artist is all about.”
“When we did Minutes To Midnight (their third studio album, which saw them abandon nu-metal), this was a conversation we literally had, ‘this could end our career’. We all had that real honest conversation like ‘look I know we’re doing this because this is what we love and we really really… this is important to us. This could honestly be like the worst decision we’ve ever made professionally. Creatively probably the best thing, professionally it might be the worst.’ We were like ‘we’re good with that. We can live with that.’”
“When you make it personal, like a personal attack against who we are as people, like dude shut up. That means that I can actually have feelings about it and most of the time my feelings are I want to kill you.”
Now let’s wait and see what Corey Taylor has to say about this.
