Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda seems to have prompt that he could also be on the point of launch new music.
The singer, rapper, producer and solo artist posted a 23-second video on social media yesterday (31 August) of him shaving his head – alongside the caption “quickly”.
It could be the primary new music from Shinoda since 2020’s ‘Dropped Frames’ trilogy of albums, which in turned adopted on from his 2018 solo debut document, ‘Put up Traumatic’.
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— Mike Shinoda (@mikeshinoda) August 31, 2023
Chatting with NME earlier this yr about the potential for making extra solo music, Shinoda mentioned: “It’s bizarre to make songs with out an concept of what they’ll find yourself being. Proper now, I’m simply making the stuff I wish to make. I don’t know what it’ll find yourself being and at this level, I don’t care about defining that. I simply wish to make songs.”
Earlier this yr, Shinoda launched the heavy electro-pop track ‘In My Head’, that includes vocals from American singer-songwriter Kailee Morgue. The track was included on the soundtrack to the movie Scream VI, as was the Demi Lovato track ‘Nonetheless Alive’, which Shinoda additionally produced and co-wrote.
Shinoda informed NME in April how these two songs have been partly impressed by the work he did on the twentieth anniversary re-release of Linkin Park’s album ‘Meteora’. “I positively bought reminded of the enjoyable of taking part in stay devices,” he mentioned. “It’s been some time since I used to be within the studio with Linkin Park making something and I used to be like, ‘Oh yeah, there’s a component of experimentation with stay devices that I simply haven’t executed shortly.’”
The expanded model ‘Meteora’ got here out in April, together with a number of beforehand unheard demos and stay performances. Linkin Park’s most up-to-date album was 2017’s ‘One Extra Mild’, launched two months earlier than the passing of lead vocalist Chester Bennington.
Shinoda went on document earlier this yr that the band wouldn’t contemplate performing with a hologram model of Bennington. “For me, that’s a transparent no. I’m not into that,” he informed 94.5 The Buzz.
