Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda has confirmed that he has a model new tune within the upcoming Scream VI film.
Shinoda shared the information in an interview with KROQ, the place he was largely discussing the upcoming celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of Linkin Park’s landmark second album ‘Meteora’. The brand new tune will likely be Shinoda’s first new solo materials for the reason that standalone single ‘Blissful Endings’, which was launched in 2021.
“Up till this yr, I’ve been doing a number of writing and producing for different folks. And I lately form of bought the bug to do it for myself once more,” he mentioned (transcribed by Kerrang!). “I do have a brand new tune that’s gonna be within the film Scream. What occurred is they’d reached out about: ‘Will you assist us with music for the film?’ And within the dialog I performed them one thing they usually have been like, ‘Oh my god, can we use that?’
He continued: “I didn’t plan it – I might by no means have been like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna put out this huge Linkin Park factor and I wanna put my tune out proper on prime of it!’ That’s not good planning for me.
“However it’s nice planning for Linkin Park followers, as a result of there’s simply extra music – so I’ve bought stuff I’ve produced which are different folks’s songs, I’ve bought my very own tune, after which we’ve bought the Linkin Park stuff. And that’s not even every thing we’re gonna be doing round this for Linkin Park followers. So it’s a good time to be a Linkin Park fan!”
Scream VI will arrive in cinemas on March 10.
The nu metallic band formally introduced the twentieth anniversary version of their second album, 2003’s ‘Meteora’, in the present day, alongside the discharge of a beforehand unheard monitor known as ‘Misplaced’.
In a press launch, Shinoda defined that discovering ‘Misplaced’ within the band’s archives “was like discovering a favourite photograph you had forgotten you’d taken, prefer it was ready for the fitting second to disclose itself”. He added of its significance: “For years, followers have been asking us to launch one thing with [late frontman Chester Bennington’s] voice, and I’m thrilled we’ve been capable of make that occur in such a particular method.”
Shinoda went on to tease that followers are “going to be floored after they hear and see all of the unimaginable unreleased songs and video footage in [the 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Meteora’]”.
The band have been on hiatus since Bennington died in 2017 however lately mentioned they deliberate to speak with their followers “slightly extra usually” sooner or later.
