Korn’s Jonathan Davis lends his manic aggression to a gauzy, stretched-out “1stp Klosr.” Stephen Richards of Taproot offers a new vocal melody to “P5hing Me Aw*y,” which came to replace its namesake on future Linkin Park tours. Aaron Lewis brings the syrupy “Crawling” rearrangement to its emotional climax. And while it certainly celebrates hip-hop, the nu-metal heavyweights that complete the guest roster are not to be overlooked. However - and this is important! - Reanimation is likely the only album in existence to feature members of both Jurassic 5 and Staind. “Wth>You,” oppositely, doesn’t feel different enough from its source material. “By Myself,” a brutal, assaulting Hybrid Theory cut, does not require an update, and yet we get “By_Myslf,” which dulls its sharpest tool (Bennington’s scream) for more stodgy guitar noise courtesy of Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter. The same goes for some of the set’s rock tunes - which it does have, by the way. If meticulous editing yielded Reanimation, these songs deserved prompt deletion. “Kyur4 th Ich” suffers the same fate and ends up a stale remix of an already inessential track. Remember the scratch-tastic X-Ecutioners, who collaborated with Linkin Park on the quintessential rap-rock time capsule “It’s Goin’ Down”? They’re here, though all they do is mash up Hybrid Theory riffs explored more creatively elsewhere on the album. The album is marred by its inescapable 2002-ness. Of course, not everything on it sounds like a gift today. Indeed, Reanimation is the sound of Linkin Park giving back to the genre they lifted from, as Dan Weiss wrote in a recent Stereogum remembrance. Its interlude-laden tracklist most resembles the big-scale hip-hop releases of that era, like The Eminem Show and Stankonia. Keep listening to experience Shinoda flex and talk s–it over the crackling, vinyl crate-born backbeat of “H! Vltg3.” By the time Chali 2na enters “Frgt/10,” it’s easy to forget this is a Linkin Park album at all. Hear how Motion Man’s rhymes nearly make Bennington’s essential hook an afterthought. Hear KutMasta Kurt’s reworked stuttering beat on “Enth E Nd” (for this album, even track titles get remixed). Then listen to how it’s transformed on Reanimation. Behind the boards, Shinoda immediately proved himself a mechanic who understood and respected hip-hop: Listen to “In the End” for proof. He opted for pensive menace (“Things aren’t the way they were before/ You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore”) instead of Fred Durst-style misanthropic party-starting. They inspired Shinoda this is how he paid tribute.įrom the beginning, Shinoda’s cerebral rhymes separated Linkin Park from their nu-metal peers. Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na, Pharoahe Monch, and The Roots’ Black Thought all feature on beats crafted by guest producers like Alchemist, Evidence, and DJ Babu. And not just from Shinoda, the group’s emcee, but via a cadre of underground rappers, the kind not likely on the radar of the prototypical Linkin Park fan in 2002. Notably, it splices the band’s trademark broiling screams from Chester Bennington – who died on July 20 and whose raw vocals defined early hits “In the End” and “Crawling” - for more rhymes. Reanimation plays like an alternate-reality Hybrid Theory, headphones music for staring out the bus window. From 'In the End' to 'Talking to Myself,' Linkin Park Storms Hot Rock Songs Chart
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