

Once we delivered it and they came back with a positive response, it felt we had won a race." įor the song, according to the LPTV episode about making "New Divide", Mike wrote four separate demos when trying to find a track that worked. We were constantly under the time pressure to show Michael Bay and his team that our song would be the best one.
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To be honest, the movie people had other bands they were considering in the beginning all were successful bands worthy of having a song teamed with this movie. "“New Divide” was tough because, being a song for a big summer movie, it had a tight deadline. Mike stated that, because the band don't usually write a song to fit with a story, it was a challenge to keep the song true to the spirit of the movie, but true to the band's intentions as well. Finally, Mike revealed the name of the song on as "New Divide." It turned out that parts of the piece "Nest" would include samples of "New Divide". The song was mastered in early May by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Not only that, he also revealed that the band was taking part in the actual score of the film, and that certain themes in "New Divide" would be included in the score. Bass and guitar are next, meanwhile Chester and I are emailing lyric notes back and forth." A month later, he officially announced the song would be included in the upcoming movie, Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen. it creates a nice interplay between the organic feel of the rhythm track and the more robotic feel of the keyboards. We're keeping the drums a little looser on this track, not doing too much studio trickery. The backdrop for the song is built on layered, heavy synths and a sharp performance by Mr.

On March 28, 2009, he posted on his blog, "We've been working on a new song in the past couple of weeks that has been a lot of fun.

Mike Shinoda was rather mysterious when first discussing the song on his blog. It's that 'I don't know what I'm listening to." That appearance versus reality is interesting to me sonically, where things you think are one thing are actually handcrafted, and it's something completely different. Brad Delson described it as " a heavy song, a high-energy song, and you don't know what's a keyboard and what's a guitar. "New Divide" was recorded specifically for inclusion in Michael Bay's action movie, Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen. "New Divide" is a single by Linkin Park from the Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen soundtrack.
