Finally! I'm not even going to waste my time with an introduction to this. Linkin Park have announced that their new album, A Thousand Suns, will be released on September 14th.
Score!
Now that the nitty-gritty of the news is out of the way, I'm going to discuss. After all of the back and forth and all the waiting, our patience has finally paid off. We need but wait another two(ish) months.
It's interesting to see that Linkin Park is sticking with the "nuclear" theme. If you don't know what I'm talking about, allow me to enlighten thee. The band's last album title, Minutes to Midnight, is in reference to the Doomsday Clock which marks the theological, philosophical, and hypothetical number of minutes until midnight; midnight being representative of mankind's annihilation via nuclear war. The lower the number of "minutes to midnight", the closer humanity is, in theory, to blowing ourselves to smithereens.
In case you were curious, the Doomsday Clock is currently (at the time of writing this blog) at 6 Minutes to Midnight.
The new album title, A Thousand Suns, is a reference to a statement made by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the developer of the Atomic Bomb, after bearing witness to the first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon.
"Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."
At the time of the statement, Oppenheimer was quoting The Bhagavad Gita.
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."
What does any of this have to do with Linkin Park? Probably nothing. I just thought it would be fun to give you a history lesson.
Linkin Park's new album, A Thousand Suns, hits stores September 14th. That's all you probably care about.
Do keep an ear out for their new single "The Catalyst", which will be released August 2nd.
As always, keep it here for updates on this and other New Rock announcements.
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