Linkin Park has said that the band's new release, A Thousand Suns, would be a concept album, but only dropped occasional hints of what that concept would be. And the lyrics to the first single, "The Catalyst," sketch a pretty dark picture about what it may be.
"We will burn inside the fires of a thousand suns," sings Chester Bennington over a dense layer of ominous synths and sustained guitars. Joe Hahn, Linkin Park's DJ and sampler, directed the "The Catalyst" video (which will premiere on August 26 on MTV) name-checks Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb, and the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu scripture, when explaining the inspiration for the song and its video.
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