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The legendary American band shared a second new song last Friday

This piece will be part of the special reissue of the album that will be released on April 7th, in celebration of its 20th anniversary.

This second preview, which features the voice of deceased vocalist Chester Benningtonthey posted it along with a music video made by an artist named Jacky Lu through an artificial intelligence. a song that the band recovered after digging through old files.

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meteor it's been two years decades and, therefore, they wanted to launch a limited edition to celebrate. This will contain six new songs, new content, four albums and a book with illustrations. It will be available on April 7th on its official website.

last February released the first preview of this edition, a piece called lost that already It has 31 million views on YouTube. The launch was accompanied by a video also created by artificial intelligence. That collects old images of the band recreated with an anime aesthetic.

This song would belong to tracklist in meteor, although it was ultimately discarded, “because it had the same intensity as other themes like Number", according to Mike Shinoda, the band's lead singer. "Meet lost It was like finding a favorite photo that you forgot you had taken, as if it was waiting for the right moment to reveal itself”, explains Shinoda on his social networks.

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20 years of the band's second work

Last Saturday this album celebrated its birthday: meteor was published on March 25, 2003 and sold in total around 13 million copies around the world. It is a work based entirely on street aesthetics, as well as shown on its cover, with graffiti influences. his name is inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greeceplace where there are countless sanctuaries built on rocks.

After his first album, hybrid theory, the band followed a continual style on what they mix rap metal and nu-metal, what has always characterized Linkin Park. Although this differed by having a more melodic style, taking influences from new styles and cultures such as Japan.

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biggest hits like Numb, weak or somewhere I belong belong to this album along with 10 other songs. This allowed the band to establish itself as one of the great alternative rock bands of the timebecoming a legendary band years later. Chester's death in 2017 made the band stop, but luckily There is still a lot of material that they intend to recoverand little by little they leave us little pearls that fans will appreciate.