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27 February 2024

Californian veteran rockers LINKIN PARK launch a career-spanning best-of collection, named PAPERCUTS (Singles Collection 2000-2023) on April 12 via Warner Records.

It’ll feature FRIENDLY FIRE. A mid-tempo power ballad that was
recorded in 2017 during the sessions of their One More Light LP,
but so far not officially released.

It’s one of the last songs sung by the late, charismatic frontman
Chester Bennington, who took his own life the same year.

Brad Delson (guitarist) “Friendly Fire” was always one of the band’s 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.”

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