Linkin Park's new album : The Catalyst

In October 2008, Mike Shinoda revealed on his blog that he, Phoenix and Hahn had begun working on two song ideas at Hahn's home, with studio recording to begin in earnest soon.In 2008, Bennington announced that Linkin Park's fourth studio release will be a concept album, though what that concept is has not yet been made apparent.

In an interview with MTV in November 2008, Bennington stated, "It sounds a little daunting to me, so, I think my confidence level will drop, but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours, we liked the idea. It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to." He also added that the band planned to begin recording in December for a six-week session. The album was expected in mid 2009, but in late March, Mike Shinoda wrote on his blog saying "We're hoping to have Chester's Dead by Sunrise album out this fall, and the new Linkin Park album out early next year."

In May 2009, Linkin Park announced that they were working on their fourth album to be released in 2010, with the aim for it to be "genre-busting." Shinoda also stated recently in an interview with IGN that the new album will have in comparison to Minutes to Midnight a bigger "thread of consistency" and will also be more experimental and "hopefully more cutting-edge". Additionally Bennington confirmed that Rick Rubin will return to produce the new album.

On June 6, the band revealed that its new album was nearing completion, and announced the first five dates for their first tour for 2010. The tour will begin in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 7.Six days later, Shinoda revealed that Linkin Park has almost made its decisions for all of the final qualities for the album, which include the track listing, album title, and cover art.

On July 8, Linkin Park officially announced that their new album, A Thousand Suns, is scheduled to be released on September 14. The band also revealed that the album's first single would be called "The Catalyst". It was released on August 2.

From July 9, 2010 until July 25, 2010, Linkin Park held the contest, "Linkin Park, Featuring You." In this contest, fans could download stems from the album's first single, "The Catalyst", remix the stems and/or write their own part for the song on any instrument. The winner of this contest was NoBraiN, whose remix was featured as an additional track on the album.

Here the track list :
1. "The Requiem"
2. "The Radiance"
3. "Burning in the Skies"
4. "Empty Spaces"
5. "When They Come for Me"
6. "Robot Boy"
7. "Jornada del Muerto"
8. "Waiting for the End"
9. "Blackout"
10. "Wretches and Kings"
11. "Wisdom, Justice, and Love"
12. "Iridescent"
13. "Fallout"
14. "The Catalyst"
15. "The Messenger"





Source: Wikipedia.com