Linkin Park — Final Masquerade

The heart-bleeding eleventh and penultimate track on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, is a nostalgic callback to a brighter and more systematic time in rock music: the mid 2000s.

The song features a markedly slower tempo and lighter than many of the rest of the album. The band is also breaking their tradition of including an instrumental track as their penultimate track, seen on their first two albums and Living Things. (Cure for the itch, Session, Tinfoil).

In a special Tweeting session, it was revealed by co-vocalist Mike Shinoda that the original version of this song had him singing all the way through, but later they decided to go with Chester.

The clip Linkin Park — Final Masquerade can be downloaded for free and without registration.