Quote of the Day

“They’re going to have to come up with a new genre name for what this record is.”

–Mike Shinoda, on Linkin Park‘s genre-breaking new record

Linkin Park Penning Song for Transformers Movie

Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda has taken to his blog to announce Linkin Park’s new song for the upcoming Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen movie.

Writes Shinoda:

BREAKING NEWS: Linkin Park will be working on the score for Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen.

Although I wasn’t at liberty to say it before, the song I’ve been referencing here on mikeshinoda.com in the past few weeks…is actually being done for Michael Bay’s new Transformers film, due out June 24th.

In addition–and probably ever cooler–we have been offered the unique opportunity to help score the film. The song we wrote is being used as one of the themes, and we will be writing various interpolations on that theme, and trying out some other thematic ideas as part of the (very large) team scoring the film.

My bandmates and I are working with award-winning film composer (and resident ass-kicker) Hans Zimmer. We met with Hans last week, and heard some of the incredible things he and his guys have done with our new song. In the next few days, we’ll be doing some work with Hans’ amazing writing and recording crew.

Michael Bay has shown us select scenes from the film, and it looks incredible. I can’t wait for you to see it.

We can’t wait either!