Music - Linkin Park #21 ~ "With his voice, he turned pain into catharsis, authenticity into art, and passion into connection." - Page 7

Slayerette89 · 12-02-2018, 12:23 PM

Indeed.

If you haven't read this interview with Mike, you should. It's fun.

Mike Shinoda Listens to 'Reign In Blood': "I'm Going to Piss Off Slayer Fans"

My favorite part is:

Quote:

Do you remember the first time you heard this one?
I definitely heard it when I was in high school. Funny story about this song though. When Linkin Park were playing Ozzfest, we were mid-to-early main stage. At the time, we had just put out our first album and we hadn’t played in front of many metal fans yet. We were on the bill with Crazy Town and Papa Roach who, Sharon Osbourne admitted in an interview before the tour even started that she put all those bands on the bill, including us, for girls. That was her statement, not mine. And we were like, "what the **** Sharon? You screwed us!" We started the tour the first week and we played immediately after Crazy Town.

So the fans were booing unforgivably before we even got to the stage. So the beginning of our set was a like an understated electronic intro with Massive Attack. We thought that this would let the Ozzfest fans know that we weren't Crazy Town. But the metal fans didn't know the difference between Massive Attack and Crazy Town so they were booing from the start. We had a 40 minute set and it took most of it to win the fans back.

The next week, we were in Philly and our DJ Joe Hahn found this album in a record store and said, "Instead of our intro, I'm going to play "Raining Blood" at the beginning of our set." We thought that it couldn’t be any worse than what we’ve been dealing with. Why the **** not? He played the first 60 seconds of that song and the crowd was booing before but when it started happening they went ape**** and cheered the whole set. It changed the whole tour. All we needed to do was extend an olive branch and say, “We get you.”

**Violent Delights** · 12-04-2018, 01:20 PM

got to play to the crowd, especially after Crazy Town.

quin0611 · 12-06-2018, 08:28 PM

**Violent Delights** · 12-07-2018, 12:14 PM

quin0611 · 12-09-2018, 09:55 PM

Awesome that so many fans are still supporting them!

**Violent Delights** · 12-10-2018, 12:43 PM

the music will always be there.

☆♥~Buffyverse_Lover16~♥☆ · 12-25-2018, 02:28 AM

Yes.

**Violent Delights** · 02-21-2019, 12:11 PM

I love this!

when I first heard it, I was really happy to have new Chester vocals, but also a little gutted that there won't be any more, you know?

**Violent Delights** · 02-27-2019, 03:01 PM

ing because it's probably my favourite song of the year so far.

edit - and still no-one cares.

Slayerette89 · 03-08-2019, 05:45 AM

That video made me sad all over again.

**Violent Delights** · 03-08-2019, 12:41 PM

They made the right choice with the empty mic though.

lost lullaby · 03-10-2019, 10:56 AM

I do need to find this album! I'm happy to hear Chester's voice one last time on that track. So good

**Violent Delights** · 03-10-2019, 10:58 AM

It's really good overall, Alissa's on there too.

lost lullaby · 03-10-2019, 11:03 AM

Yep, that's how I found out about the project! I was so stoked that Alissa and Randy were on the same song

My heart jumped out of my chest when I saw there was a song with Chester too!

**Violent Delights** · 03-10-2019, 11:59 AM

I should have known.

See, I still remember things.

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