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
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