Linkin Park - Road to Revolution [CD/DVD]

Warner Bros

November 27, 2008, 07:35 PM

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Linkin Park release their second official live album 'Road to Revolution' after their recent gig at Project Revolution in Milton Keynes. The CD/DVD combo features 17 of Linkin Park's biggest hits recorded live in concert. However, this review is based on a sample CD that contains only 10 tracks, 5 of which have already been released on other albums. The other 5 being the live versions of those tracks. Therefore this review is based on those 5 tracks only.

The first of these live tracks is 'Leave Out All The Rest', one of Linkin Parks most popular songs from their 2007 album 'Minutes to Midnight'. The track begins with a cheer and the crowd begin clapping the rhythm throughout the first verse. 'Leave Out All The Rest' is performed well live with Chester Bennington's vocals being almost tuned to perfection throughout the entire track, which is something difficult to do live. Although, after seeing Linkin Park live at Download in 2007, I know just how outstanding they are.

The second Live song on the CD of ' Road to Revolution' is Numb/Encore, which is performed live with Jay-Z. The crowd sounded very much like they were enjoying this; after all it is very rare that Linkin Park and Jay-Z actually perform together. The negative thing about this track though, is that they finish it as Jay-Z stops rapping just before Chester begins singing 'Numb', which is arguably the best bit about the song.

The third live track on 'Road to Revolution' is One Step Closer, one of Linkin Parks early tracks off their first album 'Hybrid Theory'. This song sounds really meaty live and was possibly the heaviest song Linkin Park perfomed at Project Revolution. It is certainly the heaviest of the 5 on this sample CD. By the improvisation and the crowd reaction, I would think this was Linkin Parks opening track of the Project Revolution gig.

'Breaking the Habit' is the next live song on 'Road to Revolution'. This is one of Linkin Parks best tracks, and so simply Linkin Park did nothing special with this track live, except to play it through from start to finish, with a small breakdown for the crowd at the end and frankly I can't blame them for it.

'Shadow of the Day' is the final of the 5 tracks of the sample CD for 'Road to Revolution'. It is simply performed again, and similarly to 'Breaking the Habit' it is performed from start to finish without much live crowd pleasing! Chester Benningotns vocals again stand out as being sublime in 'Shadow of the Day', one of the songs where he seems to strain his vocal chords the most.

Overall 'Road to Revolution' is exactly what I would expect from Linkin Park, who, when I saw them, provided one of the best live gigs I have ever been to, and I am sure that other people would agree with that.