Living Things is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Linkin Park. It is scheduled for release starting on June 20, 2012. Production was handled by vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who both co-produced the band’s previous studio albums Minutes to Midnight (2007) and A Thousand Suns (2010).
The band states that Living Things combines elements from their previous four studio albums to create a new sound. They stated they finally felt they were in “familiar territory” and “comfortable in their own skin” after years of experimentation that resulted in their two previous studio albums, Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns. Living Things was chosen as the album’s title because of the numerous personal topics about people implemented on the album.
The lead single for the album, “Burn It Down”, was sent to radio and released to digital music retailers on April 16, 2012.
Shinoda spoke to Co.Create about the album’s art, saying that it will “blow them [the fans] away…the average person is not going to be able to look at it and go, I understand that that