MTV EMA

Linkin Park has been nominated for a MTV EMA in two categories: Best World Stage Performance and Best Rock. Let's help them get the award! They totally deserve it! :)

You may (and must) vote here: http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote

Sonisphere Photos

I went to see my favorite band, Linkin Park, play live this summer in Pori in a festival called Sonisphere. :) This event circled around Europe with Metallica as its main performer. Linkin Park played a show in Sonisphere also in Britain.

The show was absolutely amazing, at least to me, as this was the first time I saw them. :) The show took place on July 25, but I thought I could post some photos I took during the show. They are not that great due to the fact that I was not allowed to bring a good camera with me... I hope you enjoy them nevertheless! ;)

Above is the main stage of the event. On the left there are Mike Shinoda - the MC, other vocalist, keyboardist etc. of Linkin Park - playing guitar and Joe Hahn - the turntablist - at the back. :)

Chester Bennington - the vocalist. It was really difficult to get good photos as I was on the right-hand side of the stage. Therefore most of the 'better pictures', like this one, are taken from the screen... :)

Chester and Mike... somewhere behind the smoke... ;)

Mike on the screen playing keyboard... :)

And last but not least here is a video of Mike rapping Hands Held High. :) Sorry for the bad quality...

Hope you enjoyed them! :)

My Suffering

Chester Bennington from Linkin Park has been working on his own album with his new band Dead By Sunrise. The album will be out on 13th October and there have already been a few singles released from it.

One of those is brilliant My Suffering. Sounds really good to me at least - very much the kind of music that one might expect to hear from Chester. ;) Based on the few songs that I have heard, besides My Suffering, I'd say that Dead By Sunrise has slightly more rock-ish songs compared to those of Linkin Park... I guess that it is appropriate to compare those two in this case. :) But you make your own judgments. Here is a link for you to download the song My Suffering for f-r-e-e! :)

More info on Dead By Sunrise and also some other sons from their debut album you can find from their MySpace site:

http://www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

It is also worth checking Linkin Park's Homepage for updates on both of these great bands! ;)

Glorious Excess (Dies)

Here is something for the people living in Los Angeles or near-by! Mike Shinoda's art show Glorious Excess (Dies) is open in Japanese-American National Museum until 4th October. Absolutely amazing works! :) If you only have a chance, go and check this one out! More info on the show you may find here! Photos of the making of the art and the opening on 28th August under this link and for those unfortunate human-beings like myself who can't get to the show itself, here are photos of the works of the show. :) One more word of comfort: there has been a book released on the making and the art work of the show. I am definitely going to get the book myself, so I'll tell you more about it here once I manage to get it! ;) Some info of the book here. Hopefully some of you can make it there! :)