Mike Shinoda couldn't find what he was looking for.
He had a handful of demo recordings, but none of them pointed in the direction that Shinoda wanted to take Linkin Park on its sixth studio album.
"I wanted something more aggressive and heavy and energetic," said Shinoda, Linkin Park's resident rapper and primary songwriter.
So he turned his back on the kind of electronic rock found on Linkin Park's recent Rick Rubin-produced offerings, 2010's "A Thousand Suns" and 2012's "Living Things," and went back to the drawing board. What Shinoda and his bandmates wound up with was one of the heaviest Linkin Park records to date -- this year's "The Hunting Party." It's a work that recalls the band's blockbuster debut -- 2000's "Hybrid Theory" -- but in a way that doesn't feel repetitive. Instead, it comes across like a very modern and progressive take on the alt-metal genre.
"It's a statement album," says Shinoda. "(It's) an album that should be taken to the stage, and that's exactly what we're planning to do right now."
Shinoda was speaking during a press teleconference just prior to the launch of the Carnivores Tour, Linkin Park's co-headlining jaunt with Thirty Seconds to Mars. The trek, which also features Bay Area band AFI, visits the Concord Pavilion on Friday. Show time is 6:30 p.m., and tickets are $39.50-$108.50, www.livenation.com.
The band, which has sold more than 60 million albums during its 15-year recording career, has another hit on its hands with "The Hunting Party." It debuted at No. 1 on the charts in 67 countries in June and climbed as high as No. 3 in the U.S., where it's already sold more than 200,000 copies.
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