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| Genre = | Length = | Label = | Producer = | Chronology = Linkin Park studio album | Last album = ''Living Things'' (2012) | This album = ''The Hunting Party'' (2014) | Next album = | Misc = }} ''The Hunting Party'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. The album, produced by band members Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson, was released by Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop on June 13, 2014. It is the first album since ''Meteora'' (2003) not to be produced with Rick Rubin, after producing the band's previous three studio albums. The title ''The Hunting Party'' is a contextual metaphor: Linkin Park is the party that is hunting to bring back the energy and soul of rock. ''The Hunting Party'' is a departure from the electronic rock sound of the band's previous two studio albums. The album, described by Shinoda as simply "a rock record", serves a statement by the band against contemporary mainstream and active rock bands, accused by him as "trying to be other bands and playing it safe". Packaged by an artwork by Brandon Parvini based on an original drawing by James Jean, the album took under a year to record and produce, with material being improvisationally written by the band. The album also features guest appearances from Page Hamilton of Helmet, Daron Malakian of System of a Down, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, and Rakim, marking the first time Linkin Park has collaborated with other artists on a studio album. 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 embarked on the Carnivores Tour, a double-headline tour with Thirty Seconds to Mars, as well as The Hunting Party Tour, in support of the album. Five singles from ''The Hunting Party'' have been released; "Guilty All the Same" in March 2014, "Until It's Gone" in May 2014, and "Wastelands", "Rebellion" and "Final Masquerade" in June 2014. The album has received generally positive reviews, where it has been praised as bringing back the heavier rock sound resembling their older albums. It debuted at number three on ''Billboard 200'', and has placed at number four on ''Revolvers list of "The 20 Best Albums of 2014". ==Background== In 2010 and 2012 respectively, Linkin Park released their fourth and fifth studio albums ''A Thousand Suns'' and ''Living Things''. The albums, both produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, marked a shift in the band's musical direction from a nu metal-oriented sound, recognized with ''Hybrid Theory'' (2000) and ''Meteora'' (2003), to a more experimental and "cutting edge" sound. The electronica-influenced albums were commercially successful. Production on the band's sixth studio album began as a result of a series of events in which Shinoda decided to drop the electronic and experimental sound of the band's previous two studio albums. Shinoda had originally recorded and produced demos, which continued the sound of ''A Thousand Suns'' and ''Living Things'', for the band's sixth studio album during the band's Living Things World Tour in 2013. He presented the demos to his bandmates, which received positive reception from the rest of the band, and to Rubin, who was also positive towards the demos, though describing them to Shinoda as more "poppy" than he expected. However, Shinoda, after listening to the demos again after the end of the tour, felt a strong negativity towards his material, especially after Rubin's statements. In a Warner Music interview, Shinoda stated that "I don't even believe in this music. This is a mistake; I don't like what I'm making. I kind of went backwards into the process and scrapped all of it and started new stuff." Following ''A Thousand Suns'' and ''Living Things'', albums which were created with leaving behind a sound that was "not new and not cool anymore" in mind,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40252 )〕 the band's sixth studio album was approached as a return to the band's early sound, with the electronic sounds of their previous two studio albums being dropped in favor of the band's traditional rock instrumentation. Using ''Hybrid Theory'' as a template, the band composed and recorded it in context of modern times, in 2014 rather than 2000. Guitarist Brad Delson jokingly stated that the album was an "alternative ''Hybrid Theory''" and "maybe its prequel", with the album being inspired by artists the band listened to before they started their musical career. Shinoda told ''Rolling Stone'' about the ideas surrounding ''The Hunting Party'': "We're not 18-year-old kids making a loud record – we're 37-year-old adults making a loud record. And what makes a 37-year-old angry is different than what made us angry back in the day."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hunting Party (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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