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) will hear all year". "Minutes to Midnight" was delayed several times before its release. First scheduled to be released in the summer of 2006, it was later postponed to the fall of 2006, then again to early 2007. The album's release date was finally set for May 14, 2007. In Canada, the album was released on May 15, 2007. There are non-Parental Advisory releases of both the regular album and the special edition album. The songs "Given Up", "Bleed It Out", and "Hands Held High" are edited. In Malaysia, the edited version for the album is available in digipak cover