Linkin Park’s much-discussed 1,000 Suns will eventually see the, uh, light on Sep fourteen, bringing to shut an almost 2 year process that saw the band push themselves in ways that they never thought practical. And, as is the case with many grand projects, things continued to be worked out up till the last minute.
Example : The video for the album’s first single, “The Catalyst,” that the band shot back in June. As per custom, the clip was directed by the band’s DJ, Joseph Hahn, but apart from who would be sitting in the director’s chair, there were still masses of details to deal with including just what they were going to call the tune itself. “We are deciding the title as we speak,” LP’s Mike Shinoda told MTV Reports on the set of the video back in June.
“We came in with a title under consideration, and changed our minds, and possibly by the day’s end, we will have a new name for the song.” And while they were still uncertain of the song’s title a couple of months gone, the boys knew precisely the type of feelings they needed to convey in its video. Just like the album itself, they were gunning for giant, often-contradictory themes : power and grace, annihilation and deliverance, hideousness and beauty. “the idea to the video : It sort of comes from the concept of, like, if you might imagine when nuclear fission was invented, or a minute in time when something may be employed for positive or negative,” Shinoda recounted. “Something can be stunning or it can be harmful.
Or, you know, if you have ever seen a dangerous fire from far away, it’s devastating close, but from far away, it can be pretty. Those are the sort of themes that run across the album, and they are also themes that you see in the video.” “The Catalyst” video premieres at midnight Aug twenty-five ( technically, the 26th ) on MTV.com and VH1.com, and then on MTV, VH1, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits, MTV Tr3s and all MTV global territories at eight p.m. ET / PT on Aug 26.