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
Midnight Peacocks & vocals) and form the Midnight Peacocks. The new band immediately flew to Germany to record the group's first album "It's a Brutal Machine". The album was released in 2006, with such songs from the album as: "Brutal Machine", "Indian Sun", "Island of the Sun" and "Ganja to the Chairman". In the end of 2006, Matan decided to leave the group to focus on his work with punk rock band Got No Shame, and the guitarist position was taken over by Ron Bunker (ex-member of Squid). In 2007, the group released its second studio album "Shalosh" (from the Hebrew word