Linkin Park have announced their new career-spanning greatest hits album, Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023), available April 12 via Warner Records. Before its release, they shared “Friendly Fire,” an unreleased song featuring the vocals of the late Chester Bennington.
The song list for paper cuttings It ranges from early hits like “In the End” and “Somewhere I Belong” to later songs like “Castle of Glass” and “One More Light” and rarities like “QWERTY.” The album will be available on all digital platforms and on CD, cassette and several vinyl variants, including a Zoetrope picture disc and limited edition colours. Pre-orders are in progress.
Earlier this week, Linkin Park previewed “Friendly Fire,” a synth-driven track recorded during 2017. one more light sessions. “We're falling apart for no reason/We're pulling the trigger on a useless war,” Bennington sings. “If we come back and find ourselves in the black, why will we fight?” Watch the music video, directed and edited by collaborator Mark Fiore, below.
Speaking about the song, guitarist Brad Delson said: “Friendly Fire” was always one of our favorite songs of the year. one more light sessions. Something wasn't quite right, so so close to the finish line we decided to put it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased song to include in our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the voice, the soundscape, and in fact, I thought it was more near. which perhaps we had realized at that time.”
Delson continued: “We got together to work on it and connect some of the missing pieces that for some reason hadn't been revealed during the filming of one more light. I can't wait for people to hear it. It is such a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaking and hopeful story that really resonates with me today.”
paper cuttings follow Linkin Park's 2020 Hybrid theory 20th Anniversary and Last Year Box. Meteora 20th anniversary box. The last collection included the unreleased songs “Lost” and “Fighting Myself.”
Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) Artwork:
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Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) Songs list:
01. Crawling
02. Fainting
03. Numb/Encore
04. Paper cutting
05. Breaking the habit
06. In the end
07. Bleed it
08. Somewhere I belong
09. Waiting for the end
10. Crystal Castle
11. One more light
12. Burn it
13. What I have done
14.QWERTY
15. One step closer
16. New division
17. Leave everything else aside
18. Lost
19. numb
20. Friendly fire
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