Waiting for the End (Linkin Park song)
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| Single by Linkin Park | |||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album A Thousand Suns | |||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Waiting for the End" (The Glitch Mob Remix) "The Catalyst" ("Guitarmagedon" DIOYY? Remix) |
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| Released | October 1, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2008–2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:51 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Linkin Park | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda | ||||||||||||||||||||
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"Waiting for the End" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park, released on October 1, 2010. It is the second single from their fourth studio album, A Thousand Suns, which was released on September 14, 2010. A music video for the single, directed by Joe Hahn, was released on October 8, 2010 on MTV.
It received mostly positive reviews from professional critics and was a huge success.
"Waiting for the End", along with five other songs from A Thousand Suns, is featured in the "Linkin Park Track Pack" as downloadable content for the rhythm video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The track pack was released on October 19, 2010. It was also released as one of six Linkin Park songs released in a pack for Rock Band 3 on January 11, 2011, though it was the only track from A Thousand Suns to be included in that pack.
"Waiting for the End" was announced as the album's second single at the time of the album's release.
The track features minimal distorted guitar and differs from many previous Linkin Park singles. The song features reggae-style verses by Mike Shinoda followed by both chorus and verses sung by Chester Bennington. The breakdown of the song uses remixed portions of Bennington's vocals. This song was featured in CSI on CBS on October 14, 2010.
The official music video is directed by Joe Hahn. The video was filmed in September 2010, before the release of A Thousand Suns and was released to MTV on Friday October 8, 2010. The video features the entire band performing the song in darkness along with heavily experimental digital effects and distortion applied to them. The video also carries the themes of the artwork for their album, A Thousand Suns, with many shots of abstract artworks featuring animals and digital-themed media.
Joe Hahn wrote a blog post describing the music video:
The clip is an experiment in making the most digital version of ourselves in the spirit of the visual pallette of A Thousand Suns. If you have been following our visuals throughout this album, this is the next step in our journey. I wanted to push ourselves so far down the digital path that it eventually felt spiritual. As we live our lives in the digital noise of today, we can find our center of humanity in the midst of the chaos. This is my illustration of that.
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