Mike Shinoda has shared how Linkin Park turned the primary band to prank Metallica.
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Again in summer season of 2003, Linkin Park opened for Metallica on their North American ‘Summer time Sanitarium’ tour – together with Mudvayne, Deftones and Limp Bizkit – in assist of the steel band’s ‘St. Anger‘ album which got here out the identical yr.
Showing on a current episode of SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Present, singer, rapper and guitarist Shinoda defined how Linkin Park had been in a position to convey a lighter contact to Metallica’s famously raucous exhibits.
“No one had ever pranked them on stage,” Shinoda recalled.
“By the way in which, it was like 4 of us I believe. The gag was that we needed to do one thing that, properly their present was all the time so robust and darkish, and so we had been like, ‘What can be the least robust, least darkish factor to do?’”
“We ended up going out with a picnic basket and like little sandwiches and drinks and Chester [Bennington] had a skateboard so he skated out onstage. After which we walked out on to their stage, and so they had been enjoying, I believe ‘Grasp Of Puppets,’ and we arrange a picnic proper above Lars [Ulrich],” he stated.
Shinoda additionally added that they’d deliberate the gag with Metallica’s head of safety who “promised he wouldn’t take us out”.
“However the guys had been laughing. They had been enjoying ‘Grasp Of Puppets’ like, turning round laughing at us.”
The musician added that at that time they knew Metallica “simply properly sufficient to know that James [Hetfield] wasn’t gonna knock my tooth out”.
Earlier this month, Linkin Park introduced the discharge of a brand new tune titled ‘Misplaced’ – a never-before-heard observe from the Meteora archives – for the twentieth anniversary.
‘Misplaced’ is now on observe to be the band’s highest charting tune since 2008’s ‘What I’ve Achieved’.
In a press launch, Shinoda defined that discovering ‘Misplaced’ within the band’s archives “was like discovering a favorite picture you had forgotten you’d taken, prefer it was ready for the proper second to disclose itself”.
He added: “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 in a position to make that occur in such a particular method.”
Elsewhere, Shinoda has a brand new solo tune within the upcoming Scream VI movie. The musician additionally just lately hinted at the potential of new music from Linkin Park.