2010Released
4:39

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Interesting facts and trivia about Blackout. By Songfacts®.

This is a track from Linkin Park's fourth studio album, A Thousand Suns. The song finds Chester Bennington spitting lyrics about acid rain and anarchy.

A Thousand Suns was produced by vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. Shinoda told NME that the legendary producer urged the band to indulge in "automatic writing". "We were having a ton of trouble with the vocal and lyrics on the song 'Blackout', so we asked Rick for his advice," Shinoda explained. The singer added: "He suggested this technique he used with Johnny Cash and Neil Young, which basically means you get up on the mic and let the words flow. Going in there and actually doing it was terrifying at first but then the words just started coming out of nowhere, it was really surreal. It added a certain soul to the record and without that, I think it would have been really rigid and digital."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Blackout.
AKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
135BPM

Album

The album Blackout is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Blackout.
Warner Records
© 2010 Warner Records Inc.
℗ 2010 Warner Records Inc.

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