Linkin Park today have hinted at working on new material for the first time since the release of The Hunting Party in 2014. The Band posted a picture of lead singer Chester Bennington onto Instagram with the caption ‘back to work this week':

back to work this week https://t.co/OVmhONliUG

— LINKIN PARK (@linkinpark) January 5, 2016

And if that wasn’t a big enough hint, when visiting the Official Linkin Park website you are met with the message of ‘We’re just getting started in the studio on a new album’, see here.

Any fan of early 2000s alternative rock will have Linkin Park’s debut album ‘Hybrid Theory’ on their list of top albums. Linkin Park exploded onto the scene with the hugely successful and critically acclaimed rap metal album; containing such hits as ‘Crawling’ and ‘In the End’. Hybrid Theory has since sold over 27 million copies.

Linkin Park then followed up their debut album with ‘Meteora’ in 2003; which again was met with similar critical acclaim and cult following. Even more so when Jay-Z released a collaborative EP ‘Collision Course’ which contained numerous remixes of Linkin Park’s original tracks.

Linking Park will no doubt be hoping that their new album is as successful as their earliest stuff, but as a band which has continuously developed different sounds there is no guessing whether we’ll get a more rap based album like Hybrid Theory, or a more rock based album like Minutes to Midnight.