Linkin Park share ‘Friendly Fire’ with Chester Bennington & Announce New LP

Linkin Park set up a greatest hits album spanning their entire career in new album, ‘Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023)’

Linkin Park teased their track “Friendly Fire” and a few other previously unreleased songs recorded with the late Chester Bennington during 2017’s ‘One More Light’ sessions. The greatest hits album is a 20-song overview of the band’s best-selling tracks over the past two decades – including ‘Numb’, ‘In The End’ and ‘Burn It Down’.

The album will be out April 12th.

Lead guitarist Brad Delson shares: “‘Friendly Fire’ was always one of our favorite songs from the One More Light sessions. Something about it wasn’t quite right so as close as it got to the finish line, we chose to set it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, the sonic landscape and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time. We got together to work on it and connect some of the missing pieces that for whatever reason hadn’t revealed themselves during the recording of One More Light. I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s such a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaking, hopeful story and it really resonates with me today.”

‘Friendly Fire’ was released along with a music video that was directed and edited by Mark Fiore, featuring never-before-seen studio and live footage: