Chester reflects on Linkin Park's The Hunting Party, talks work on a new album

One of the biggest rocks bands around today dropped their latest album last June in the form of The Hunting Party. That was the first album Linkin Park released since their 2012 record Living Things. Their most recent album is perhaps one of Chester Bennington's favorites.

The Hunting Party was the most raw, aggressive album Linkin Park has made in years. The band's desire was to create a more in your face rock album and they succeeded. Songs such as A Line In The Sand, Guilty All The Same and Rebellion are a few of the tracks that personify the vision of The Hunting Party.

Chester has been working with Stone Temple Pilots as of late, but during a recent interview , Chester provided some thoughts on The Hunting Party and where it stacks up against other records Linkin Park has made.
"We really enjoyed making The Hunting Party and everybody seemed to respond well to the rawness of it. I think The Hunting Party was a great record for us and I think it’s definitely one of my favorite records that we’ve made. I think A Thousand Suns and The Hunting Party are our best records," Bennington said.

A Thousand Suns was originally released back in September 2010, but the band's sound has evolved in a fascinating way since then. For fans who enjoyed the Linkin Park's first two records, The Hunting Party was the closest resembling album simply due to the level of aggression that was audible.

As has been the recent pattern of Linkin Park since they released A Thousand Suns in 2010, it's safe to assume their next record will land in stores sometime during 2016, but that has yet to be confirmed. Linkin Park is in the studio beginning work on their next album, but Bennington said they are still working on mapping out the creative vision for what will come next.

"We’re starting to get into [the creative] phase right now. I know we want to make music that is fun to play live, that’s pretty much our goal in life right now (laughs). I don’t know exactly what the nature of the next record will be or what the mentality of it will look like.I think we want to keep carrying [the rawness] forward, but we also want to move in a different direction like we always have. When we go into the studio, we just want to go in and make music that’s super fun to play live. I imagine [our next album] is going to be a fun record," Bennington said.