I remember when I was just a kid, 12 years old, and I did not like rock at all. Once in a post I mentioned that I thought that this musical genre was "satanic" and therefore I was afraid, in short, one day in the house of a very good friend of mine, we were playing in an Xbox360, the game in one of the Parts had melody like a rather good song ... "Somewhere I belong" from Linkin Park, the real chorus was something quite sticky, and contained some Mike Shinoda rhymes in the verses. The song stuck in my mind for quite some time, to the point where I told my friend that he had to tell me where he could buy the record where the song came from. It did not happen more than a week so that I could get the CD (Meteora) and be able to listen to Somewhere I belong as many times as I wanted, but behind this song came others that I also liked a lot, and that's how I started to Listen to "satanic" rock.

Linkin Park ended up liking it completely, all the songs they were wearing until then, their last album was Minutes To Midnight and I really did not stop listening to them at any time, they were simply my favorite band, songs like In the end or Lying from You are two songs that nowadays I have not got bored in any moment to listen to them.

But unfortunately nothing is perfect, or nothing lasts forever, and Linkin Park would honor both phrases very soon. In 2010 they began to change their style drastically, they released an album called "A thousand suns" which no longer included the electric guitar with so much distortion as in their previous albums where the rock element was always present, they turned their course towards A more electronic or pop music plane, more commercial, and I understand perfectly that a band to be successful must be commercial since something has to live those people, and the truth Linkin Park has always had that potential to become the Band so commercially successful that they are today, but the abrupt change of style really did not like it very much.

Then they get "Living things", there were a couple of songs that were also sticky but they were still very "pop" so to speak, I did not like it either and finally the last one they got is "The Hunting Party", I admit that Liked a couple of songs because they decided to go back a bit to their original "New Metal" style with distorted guitars and some guttural of Chester Bennington, but it is not even close to being as great as it was in his first three albums (Hybrid Theory , Meteora, Minutes to midnight).

Despite this, I still listen to some of his old songs, I will always love him for being the first rock band I liked, and well, I know all his songs, whether good or bad.

They recently released a new song called "Heavy", in fact the song will not take 7 days of release, the song can not be said that it is rock, there is no guitar, there is no battery, only synthesizer and the voices of Chester Bennington , Which I admit is still very good, and that of "Kiiara" with a bit of autotune. It's not even close, or even a little of the Linkin Park of those old rock songs that they took out when they were starting, but well I'll know.

"Make Linkin Park great again"? 

A couple of songs when Linkin Park used to be truly cool: 

In the end, from Hybrid theory (2000). Many people claim this is their best song.

Numb, from Meteora (2004). A pretty good one.

Somewhere I belong, from Meteora (2004), still one of my favorites.

@Metalman

Images taken from twitter account @Linkinpark