It was amazing hearing Chester’s vocals again when Linkin Park released the song “Lost” last year. A song they found in the archives and put out as part of the 20th anniversary celebration for their second album Meteora. Today Linkin Park has put another previously unheard song featuring Chester’s vocals. It’s called “Friendly Fire” and it’s leftover from Linkin Park’s last album, the very pop-leaning One More Light. The song will be featured on a new singles collection called Papercuts. More on that below.
About “Friendly Fire” Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson said, “‘Friendly Fire’ was always one of our favorite songs from the One More Light sessions. Something about it wasn’t quite right so as close as it got to the finish line, we chose to set it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, and the sonic landscape and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time.
We got together to work on it and connect some of the missing pieces that for whatever reason hadn’t revealed themselves during the recording of One More Light. I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s such a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaking, hopeful story and it really resonates with me today.”
Assembling an essential collection of generational anthems, LINKIN PARK will present their first-ever career-spanning greatest hits album entitled Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) on April 12th via Warner Records.
The fan enthusiasm and fervor for both Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition) in 2020 and Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) last year ultimately inspired the band to curate and carefully piece together what would become Papercuts. It offers a comprehensive retrospective of their journey so far in the span of one album highlighted by everything from “Crawling” and “Somewhere I Belong” to the sought-after rarity “QWERTY.”
Papercuts will arrive on April 12th!
PAPERCUTS (Singles Collection 2000-2023) Tracklisting:
1. Crawling
2. Faint
3. Numb/Encore
4. Papercut
5. Breaking The Habit
6. In The End
7. Bleed It Out
8. Somewhere I Belong
9. Waiting For The End
10. Castle Of Glass
11. One More Light
12. Burn It Down
13. What I’ve Done
14. QWERTY
15. One Step Closer
16. New Divide
17. Leave Out All The Rest
18. Lost
19. Numb
20. Friendly Fire
