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Generally favorable reviews- based on 511 Ratings
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Mixed: 68 out of 511
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Negative: 63 out of 511
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Sep 14, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 14, 2010They taked a big step with this album, actually their changed a lot, but, they changed for good, really, i like the new style, i think this album is better than minutes to midnight :P
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Sep 14, 2010A thousand suns is awesome. I think the band has done a great job in redefining their music. If we don't compare this album with the previous ones, and listen to it, then we can find it enjoyable and meaningful.
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Sep 15, 2010
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Sep 14, 2010Linkin park has proved yet again why it is considered one of the best rock bands in the world with this latest offering. A thousand suns is unreal. Extremely impressed. This album has created a sort of thirst in me which can only be quenched by their next album. LP never ceases to amaze me . MY VERDICT
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Sep 15, 2010After Linkin Park produce their best record, an unfortunate situation is unfolding - it's a record that many LP fans may not adhere to, and arguably the people who will like it will be deterred by the fact that, well, it's a Linkin Park album. The band have always had a particular aesthetic, but somehow I'm left with the feeling this is the record they have always been trying to make.
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Sep 17, 2010
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Sep 17, 2010This album is different from the other but also is way more good and power full lyrically i think this album is unique as they created their own genre with hard work congratulations guys.
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Sep 21, 2010
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Sep 24, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 2, 2010
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Oct 10, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 19, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 24, 2010
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Nov 4, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Dec 12, 2010Best album of this year in my opinion , meaningful lyrics with a completely new sound which i never heared before. Rick Rubin showed again that can be a genius at what he does
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Dec 25, 2010Well since this an LP album I would probably be giving infinity out of 10 however 40% of the album is full of fillers. Some of them are bearable but Empty Spaces just ticks me off. When they Come for Me would have been awesome, MINUS the SWEARING. LP, You have fans who are KIDS!!!!!! Don't scare the crap out of them. Leaving all the things mentioned above I loved the album
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Mar 2, 2011
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Apr 12, 2011It is definately a creative album if you listen to it from start to finish youll see that the 9 full length tracks along with the 6 intros tell a story sum up a great album
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Jul 11, 2011This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Mar 10, 2012
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Sep 4, 2011
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Oct 24, 2011
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Feb 29, 2012this album is so emotional the song songs on this album are just so **** good its just amazing. linkin park is so god damn good its just amazing. my favorite song on this album has to be iridecent
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Jun 25, 2012
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Sep 24, 2015This is the experimentation that Linkin Park should have done instead of Minutes of Midnight. A Thousand Suns pushes the boundaries for the band, and it's made them stronger than ever.
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Oct 11, 2014
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Mar 3, 2017
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Mar 1, 2017since meteora, a thousands suns is the best linkin park album. is not nu metal but is sooooooooooooo great. viva Waiting for the end, blackout, when they come from me,the catalyst,irisdecent,the mesenger, etc,etc
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May 20, 2017This album made me almost cry.
Linkin Park confirms to be one of the most interesting band of our times with this masterpiece, i loved songs like Burning In The skies, Waiting For The End, Robot Boy and Iridescent.
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May 18, 2019One of the best album by Linkin Park. The band finally found their own sound and created a truly great album.
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May 22, 2019A masterpiece! Linkin Park experienced with electronic sounds and it payed off.
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Nov 18, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Dec 28, 2022A great album with a great concept definitely one of there best and most misunderstood masterpieces
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Jun 21, 2023
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May 26, 2023
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Sep 15, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 15, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 20, 2010
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Oct 6, 2010Linkin Park is my favorite band, and by hearing thousand suns i could see that they are really trying hard to create their new identity (new kinda music) in music industry. A thousands suns is quite good album. But it do not stand as it has to be. Overall album is fine but not epic, what everyone except from band like Linkin Park.
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Oct 10, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 21, 2010
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Jun 21, 201293/100
The best album to date(as in before Living Things). Linkin Park outdid themselves and the album is very good. You can't do Nu Metal forever and I very much enjoyed the album, its almost perfect, although The Catalyst will break your ears if your listening through headphones at a loud volume. -
Jan 18, 2012Quite a different sound from Linkin Park, more electronic I'd say. In general "A Thousand Suns" it's a very good album, the lyrics are meaningful, the music is different in a good way, so what else may we ask for?
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Sep 29, 2013
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Jan 11, 2016A Thousand Suns é o álbum mais aclamado da crítica e o que tem um maior conceito do linkin Park, o conceito da guerra nuclear. Ele é maravilhoso, com músicas ótimas. É um dos meus três favoritos da banda. Só há uma coisa que ele peca: excesso de faixas curtas.
Pontos Altos: Robot Boy, Blackout, The Catalyst
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Sep 16, 2010You may hate it at the beginning , but when you actually care about everything in the album and how this is something that you didn't expected and you hate to like it.
The song that maybe will remind you more of the old LP is "Wretches and Kings" and other great song in the CD is "The Catalyst" -
Jun 7, 2012A Thousand Suns is a completely original and creative album, but not without flaws. I really wish the interludes and bridges were combined with other tracks rather than standing alone. I also wish there was a couple more heavier songs. Overall, it's an excellent album. The best tracks are When They Come For Me, Blackout, Wretches and Kings, and Waiting For The End.
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Sep 18, 2010
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Oct 13, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 16, 2011
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Jul 17, 2012This is definitely the most organic of Linkin Park's albums. Highly experimental and fully of politically and socially charged lyrics, A Thousand Suns holds up well, but it seems to be lacking much of the heart of the albums before it. It's a good album, but not a very strong one.
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Mar 15, 2013
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Apr 16, 2016It's an artistic album, I enjoyed and found it creative. There are a lot of overcoming songs which are great and catchy, "Waiting For The End" for example, is one of them.
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Mar 10, 2018Most of my criticisms of this album are of the unnecessary filler instrumentals which have no point to them. Empty Spaces? Come on, that track may as well be called "20 seconds of filler". But the full length tracks are pretty consistently good. Tracks like Wretches & Kings, Blackout, The Catalyst and Waiting for the End show us why Linkin Park is such a great band
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Aug 7, 2021Great underrated album. I liked the experimentation on this one.
Best songs: Waiting for the End
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Apr 11, 2012
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May 11, 2013For now, Linkin Park is quite crap. Not for this album. Though quite far away from maintaing its experimental themes of apocalypse (which they are trying to talk about in the album), Linkin Park's shift has gone unnoticed. And by far this is their best album. Not fantastic but not so bad.
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Apr 25, 2021Хороший альбом, мне больше всего запомнились "The Catalyst" и "Burning In The Skies"
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Aug 20, 2021
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Aug 1, 2023Very unique and interesting, I didn't appreciate it much at first but it definitely grew on me more and more over time.
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Apr 11, 2011If your looking for a good Linkin Park album, you're gonna have to wait awhile, I would only recommend this album if you can get it cheap like I did. I say this because out of the 15 tracks there are only 6 full length songs, the rest are lame filler tracks.
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Oct 9, 2010......................................................................................the ten i gave it was a mistake.....................................................................................................................................................
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Oct 16, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 22, 2010Linkin Parks has shown maturity and some brilliance in their latest studio album, but fans be warned, their songs have become more pop driven than rock and with Rick Rubin producing, it soon feels too overproduced and too distant from their comforting sounds and variety on "Minutes to Midnight".
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Jan 4, 2011
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Jan 12, 2012
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Jan 13, 2012What killed this album was that it consisted a few poor instrumentals and even though it did feature a few good songs (that I liked a lot more then the songs on their previous album), They simply didnt pull through with this album.
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Mar 11, 2012This album could have been much better, but instead it was filled with lots of ambient an random electronic sounds between the real songs. I give a 6 to the album because I still have faith in them.
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Mar 9, 2013I wonder WTF do these guys think before writing their songs. There are wonderful songs on this album (Waiting for the End, Iridescent) but other songs are awful. Some of them aren't songs. Why don't you write an album made only by good songs?
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Sep 14, 2010
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Sep 24, 2010
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Oct 6, 2015The band is trying to expand their sound but overall it just does not work, it seems like there is no direction. I enjoy a few songs here but the majority of the songs on this album are boring. Unlike their previous stuff this is not a rock album, there is not much guitar work here.
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Sep 16, 2011
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Aug 10, 2014I wanted to enjoy it like the other Linkin Park albums. I played it many times but it could not win me over. There was no track I can remember or that I started to whistle / sing along. On the other hand there was also no track that I can hate. Overall that means an average score of 5/10.
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Sep 17, 2010I could personally only state that 2 songs out of the 16 on the album is good enough to listen too. They seem to go in a different direction, In my honest option it was a wrong direction, nothing better than a 4/10. I can only hope they change back.
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Sep 19, 2010
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Oct 17, 2010
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Sep 15, 2010Soy un fan de Linkin Park desde hace dos años, y siempre me gustó, incluso cuando cambiaron tanto su estilo en 2007, sin embargo en este disco, me estoy arrepintiendo de haberlo comprado un poco.
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Sep 14, 2010
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Nov 14, 2011Wouldnt have been so bad if it wasnt filled with instrumentals. The actual "songs" of the album were actually pretty good and I enjoyed them a lot more then the previous album.
Awards & Rankings
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With Rick Rubin co-producing, the band embraces not just synth-pop clamor but also dancehall-style chants and U2's grandiosity. It's the sound of Linkin Park feeling their way toward a new identity, but their skill for melody is obvious.
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They didn't want whatever their next album was to be predictable, and while A Thousand Suns might have emerged by accident compared to previous LPs, it's certainly a far from plays-to-perceived-type affair.
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On its latest release, A Thousand Suns, the six-piece rock act truly breaks the habit of everything we've heard from it before.