Linkin Park Get Eclectic on Album (18. Oktober 2006)

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At the Fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards over the weekend, Linkin Park's Phoenix and Mike Shinoda said the band's long-awaited next album is taking form. "As of maybe a week and a half, two weeks ago, we went from 30 down to 17-ish, song-wise, and that's an exciting point for us," Phoenix tells AOL Music. "The album is starting to take a little bit more of a shape." The band credits its experimentalism on this album in large part to producer Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Beastie Boys). "Rick is one of those guys where you can go through any door you want to go through," Shinoda says. "We're trying everything, just messing around with it until it sounds good." Phoenix says that's created an album that will confound expectations of the band. "The thing for me with Rick is that he's open to whatever happens, and I think for us it's created a very different album than what we were expecting." And good luck trying to imagine what that new direction might sound like: "Even different than your new expectations that you just made -- that's how different," Phoenix says.