Linkin Park Moving On From Style Of 'Transformers' Track

'Over the next year or so, you're going to get a lot of different LP music,' Mike Shinoda says. By James Montgomery Linkin Park at the premiere of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Photo: Kevin Winter/Staff Say what you will about "New Divide," the brand-new Linkin Park track featured in the upcoming "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," but you can't accuse the guys of departing from their time-tested formula. The big, rocket-launcher guitars, the electronic fireworks, the vocal gymnastics — it's very much classic Linkin Park, the kind of tune that's helped move millions of albums and pack arenas around the globe. And if you're an LP fan, you should probably savor it, because from the sound of things, Linkin Park might be leaving songs like "Divide" behind for good. "We've got this song for 'Transformers,' and then sometime soon after this, Chester's going to be releasing a solo record called Dead by Sunrise, and that will be out towards the end of this ... (link)