LINKIN PARK - The Hunting Party (2014) V0

The Hunting Party is the sixth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. The album, self-produced by band members Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson, was released by Warner Bros. Records in Friday-release countries on June 13, 2014 and will be released in North America on June 17, 2014. It is the first album since Meteora not to be produced with Rick Rubin, after producing the band's previous three studio albums.

The Hunting Party is a departure from the band's recent electronic rock sound of their previous two studio albums. The album, described by Mike Shinoda as simply "a rock record", serves a statement by the band against contemporary mainstream and active rock bands, accused by Shinoda as "trying to be other bands and playing it safe". Packaged by an artwork by Brandon Parvini based off an original drawing by James Jean, the album took under a year to record and produce, with material being improvisationally written in the studio by members of the band. The album also features guest appearances from Page Hamilton of Helmet, Rakim, Daron Malakian of System of a Down, and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

The album was promoted by the band and Warner Bros, with multiple promotional teasers and interviews produced and published in the lead-up to the album's release and listening parties of the album being held worldwide on multiple dates. The band are also set to embark on the Carnivores Tour, a double-headline tour with Thirty Seconds to Mars, in support of the album. So far, five tracks from the album have been released as singles in promotion of The Hunting Party; "Guilty All the Same" in March 2014, "Until It's Gone" in May 2014 and a triple-release of "Wastelands", "Rebellion" and "Final Masquerade" in June 2014.

1. "Keys to the Kingdom" 3:38
2. "All for Nothing" (featuring Page Hamilton) 3:33
3. "Guilty All the Same" (featuring Rakim) Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda, Rakim. 5:56
4. "The Summoning" 1:00
5. "War" 2:11
6. "Wastelands" Bennington, Bourdon, Delson, Farrell, Hahn, Shinoda 3:15
7. "Until It's Gone" Bennington, Bourdon, Delson, Farrell, Hahn, Shinoda 3:53
8. "Rebellion" (featuring Daron Malakian) Bennington, Bourdon, Delson, Farrell, Hahn, Shinoda 3:44
9. "Mark the Graves" 5:05
10. "Drawbar" (featuring Tom Morello) 2:46
11. "Final Masquerade" Bennington, Bourdon, Delson, Farrell, Hahn, Shinoda 3:37
12. "A Line in the Sand" 6:35