Mike Shinoda and Dave Farrell unveil new details about the return of Linkin Park and the album “From Zero”

In a recent interview with Kevan Kenney of KROQ, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park discussed the feelings and event surrounding the band’s “From Zero” album release.

It’s really complicated. For me, two years ago it was very overwhelming, and I think the best thing that we did was to just basically let things happen in the order and at the timeline that they were gonna happen, let things happen organically and not push too hard. And I feel like what ended up evolving was we just naturally kind of found each other, we found this new lineup, we found Emily and Colin in particular, and the music just kind of came into focus based on what we were having the most fun doing. Mike Shinoda

The host inferred that this record is almost like a return to their roots.

I love that there’s such a strong Linkin Park DNA in the record. It does really feel like Linkin Park, but I think there’s a part of it that’s the old sound and part of that’s every era of the band, to me, on the record. Mike Shinoda

I don’t know if I know well what the Linkin Park DNA is. It’s kind of like when you’re too close to something, you just do it and then other people tell you. They almost interpret it and then you kind of say, ‘Okay, cool. I’m glad that came across.’ But I think in any and all of that creation of an album or working on new music or new stuff or when there’s — I don’t know — interstitials or whatever you might wanna call it, for me those things are just like us doing us and figuring that out and moving forward. And in this process, one of the things that was so fun and rewarding and cool and energizing was just how when we started gradually integrating Emily and Colin, it felt like Linkin Park. It just felt like it fit for me and for us. And those were the coolest moments in the entire process, was just feeling like things were kind of jelling and coming together and we were having a blast doing it the whole time. So at this stage being ready to finally have the album out, having people be excited about it, that feels great. Dave Farrell