A Thousand Suns A Thousand Suns A Thousand Suns is the fourth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released on September 8, 2010, by Warner Bros. Records. The album was written by the band and was produced by Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who worked together to produce the band's previous studio album "Minutes to Midnight" (2007). Recording sessions for "A Thousand Suns" took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California from 2008 until early 2010. "A Thousand Suns" is a concept album dealing with human fears such as nuclear warfare. The band has
Minutes to Midnight (song) some 12 minutes in the preceding decade. This was the closest to midnight the clock had reached since the overt testing of H-Bombs by the US and Soviet Union in 1953. This setting was surpassed only recently, after the inauguration of American president Donald Trump in January 2017, when the clock was set at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. The lyrics warn of escalation in the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union (""ICBMs, SS-20s / they lie so dormant, they got so many""), and allude to both H.G. Wells and heralded Australian racehorse Phar Lap. Minutes to