Mike Shinoda - Why 'Lost' Was Cut From Linkin Park's 'Meteora'

Today was a giant day for Linkin Park. Not solely did they announce an enormous twentieth anniversary field set in commemoration of Meteora, however they launched an outtake from the album referred to as “Lost.” In an interview with Audacy, Mike Shinoda defined why the music was lower from the album’s ultimate observe itemizing.

Shinoda recalled that the Linkin Park camp uncovered “Lost” whereas going by way of all of their Meteora recordsdata, and it had already been blended and mastered as a result of they initially supposed to place it on the album. Therefore, he did not wish to remix or remaster the music previous to releasing it as we speak.

“The philosophy was — don’t really touch it. Present it the way it would have been presented back then. If you don’t have to mix it, if you don’t have to master it, don’t do it,” Shinoda instructed Audacy host Nicole Alvarez. “So we stuck very closely to that.”

The rocker described the emotional nature of the music (try the lyrics right here), and famous that the angle is principally centered on “some not-so-good stuff.” As a outcome, the observe was lower from the album as a result of they already had one with an identical message.

“It was this close to being on the record… At some point, you put [the songs] in kind of an order, like these are the best ones and from there it goes down,” Shinoda acknowledged. “And the one right on the other side of the line was this song ‘Lost.’ And the only reason it didn’t go on is because it sounded — it had the same intensity as ‘Numb.'”

Thus, we get to listen to it as we speak in an entire new gentle, albeit within the absence of Chester Bennington, however his vocals sound as highly effective as ever all through it.

See the complete interview beneath.

The twentieth anniversary version of Meteora is accessible on quite a lot of completely different codecs, and is anticipated on April 7. Pre-order yours right here.