Living Things (Linkin Park album) Living Things (Linkin Park album) Living Things (stylised in all caps) is the fifth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released under Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings on June 20, 2012, in Japan, and throughout the rest of the world during the following week. Production was handled by vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who both co-produced the band's previous two studio albums "Minutes to Midnight" (2007) and "A Thousand Suns" (2010). "Living Things" would be their last album to be produced by Rubin. The band states that "Living Things" combines elements from their
Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) studio album to contain a Parental Advisory (the first overall being their collaborative EP with Jay-Z, "Collision Course") and politically charged lyrics. The songs that contain profanity are "Given Up", "Bleed It Out" and "Hands Held High". The front and back cover were recorded around the ruins of North Shore Beach and Yacht Club in North Shore, California. A year after the release of "Minutes to Midnight", the band released ten different covers that were originally used as consideration for the final cover for the album prior to its release. The band made all ten of these covers available for