"Typically we'll have a once-a-week meeting to go listen to the songs that they're coming up with and talk about them. The band's co-lead vocalist and rapper, Mike Shinoda, and Rick Rubin served as producers for the album. There aren't a whole lot of noises going on, but there are a lot of good songs." The music is great and we're well ahead of where we're expecting to be. He explained, "We've been working on a new record for the past two months. In June 2011, lead singer Chester Bennington revealed to Kerrang! that Linkin Park had begun working on new material for their fifth album. The recording of Living Things started in March 2011 and ended in April 2012.
The fourth and final single for the album, " Castle of Glass", was released in its physical format on February 1, 2013. The third single " Powerless" was released on October 31, 2012. The second single for the album, " Lost in the Echo", was released on October 5, 2012. Living Things debuted at number one on Billboard 200 with sales of 223,000 copies in the United States in its opening week. The lead single for the album, " Burn It Down", was sent to radio and released to digital music retailers on April 16, 2012.
Living Things was chosen as the album's title because of the numerous personal topics on the album. They stated they finally felt they were in "familiar territory" and "comfortable in own skin" after years of experimentation that resulted in their two previous studio albums, Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns. The band states that Living Things combines elements from their previous four studio albums to create a new sound. Living Things would be their last album to be produced by Rubin & to be recorded at NRG Recording Studios. Production was handled by vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who both co-produced the band's previous two studio albums, Minutes to Midnight (2007) and A Thousand Suns (2010). Records and Machine Shop Recordings on June 26, 2012, in Japan, and throughout the rest of the world during the following week.
Living Things (stylized in all caps) is the fifth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park.
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