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Shadow of the Day
"Shadow of the Day" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was released as the third single from their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight, on October 16, 2007. Lead vocalist Chester Bennington play rhythm guitar on the song. The first public performance of "Shadow of the Day" was during the Projekt Revolution tour in Auburn, Washington, on July 25, 2007. On September 4, 2012, "Shadow of the Day", along with "Breaking the Habit", "New Divide", and "Burn It Down", was released in the "Linkin Park Pack 02" as downloadable content for the music rhythm video game, Rock Band 3.
The band experimented with several different versions of the keyboard loop, before deciding on the one used in the final version. Lead singer Chester Bennington explained that they used over 60 different beats for this song until they found a suitable one. They also used different types of instruments like banjos at first, experimenting with different styles until they came up with something that would fit the track.
The song is based around the Doomsday clock counting down, and the song concludes at the end with the Doomsday clock having reached midnight, which is the time that is perceived that humanity breaks down due to catastrophic failures of peace, existence and life itself.
Like "Breaking the Habit", "Shadow of the Day" uses samples of live string ensemble recordings, played by Mike Shinoda. The song is written in the key of B major, the first major key the band has ever used. The chorus is based on the very common I–V–vi–IV progression (B, F♯, G♯m, E in the key of B major). On the verses, the chord progression is the less common vi–V–IV–IV (G♯m, F♯/A♯, E, E). The end of the album version of the song, which is an instrumental piece, crossfades into the start of "What I've Done". It is the second-longest track on the album. Shinoda joins Bennington on the lines "Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way" and the last three choruses.
It is the band's first song where Bennington played rhythm guitar live (if not including the band's mash-up from Meteora World Tour, named "Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down", where Chester also played rhythm guitar, specifically on "It's Goin' Down", which also was performed fully on the band's Hybrid Theory Tour), due to the requirement of a second guitar in the final chorus, and Shinoda, who typically acts as a second guitarist played keyboards instead. However, this is not the first song on which Bennington plays guitar, since he plays it on the highly-processed intro of "Somewhere I Belong". Later, Bennington would also play rhythm guitar on live performances of "Iridescent". Bennington would also play rhythm guitar on live performances of a few songs from the album One More Light before his death in July 2017.
The song was remastered for iTunes in 2013, with a new arrangement of strings.
The music video was directed by band member Joe Hahn. It takes place during a large scale civil unrest in what appears to be the United States. The video was shot in Los Angeles at 20th Century Fox. The action was set up by stunt coordinator Steven Ho.
The music video was released to the internet on October 15, 2007. The video shows Chester Bennington waking up. His alarm clock reads 11:55, the then Doomsday Clock time, referencing the album title Minutes to Midnight and the song which is the fifth song on the album. The video is over four minutes long, meaning that the time at the end would be 11:59 PM, or one minute to midnight. Bennington then watches the news, washes up, gets dressed, and goes outside. The video takes place in a war-torn world, where mass chaos is ensuing on the streets of the city. There is a lot of violence going on with many police and gunshots. Plumes of smoke can be seen in the sky. Soldiers and riot police can be seen forcefully detaining civilians. Near the end of the video, a car is set on fire and bursts into flames as several people taking place in the riot throw molotov cocktails at police resulting in the Police Riot Control and SWAT teams opening fire and advancing while the mob of people retreat. A man suddenly throws a bottle of alcohol on a car and the car takes fire. Bennington then stands in front of the burning car, while looking at the carnage that surrounds him. He then turns towards the flames, and the video fades to black. The electronic/synth outro of the song is excluded on the video to make it a more appropriate finish. If listened to carefully towards the middle of the video, the mob is shouting 'we want freedom'.
Shadow of the Day
"Shadow of the Day" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was released as the third single from their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight, on October 16, 2007. Lead vocalist Chester Bennington play rhythm guitar on the song. The first public performance of "Shadow of the Day" was during the Projekt Revolution tour in Auburn, Washington, on July 25, 2007. On September 4, 2012, "Shadow of the Day", along with "Breaking the Habit", "New Divide", and "Burn It Down", was released in the "Linkin Park Pack 02" as downloadable content for the music rhythm video game, Rock Band 3.
The band experimented with several different versions of the keyboard loop, before deciding on the one used in the final version. Lead singer Chester Bennington explained that they used over 60 different beats for this song until they found a suitable one. They also used different types of instruments like banjos at first, experimenting with different styles until they came up with something that would fit the track.
The song is based around the Doomsday clock counting down, and the song concludes at the end with the Doomsday clock having reached midnight, which is the time that is perceived that humanity breaks down due to catastrophic failures of peace, existence and life itself.
Like "Breaking the Habit", "Shadow of the Day" uses samples of live string ensemble recordings, played by Mike Shinoda. The song is written in the key of B major, the first major key the band has ever used. The chorus is based on the very common I–V–vi–IV progression (B, F♯, G♯m, E in the key of B major). On the verses, the chord progression is the less common vi–V–IV–IV (G♯m, F♯/A♯, E, E). The end of the album version of the song, which is an instrumental piece, crossfades into the start of "What I've Done". It is the second-longest track on the album. Shinoda joins Bennington on the lines "Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way" and the last three choruses.
It is the band's first song where Bennington played rhythm guitar live (if not including the band's mash-up from Meteora World Tour, named "Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down", where Chester also played rhythm guitar, specifically on "It's Goin' Down", which also was performed fully on the band's Hybrid Theory Tour), due to the requirement of a second guitar in the final chorus, and Shinoda, who typically acts as a second guitarist played keyboards instead. However, this is not the first song on which Bennington plays guitar, since he plays it on the highly-processed intro of "Somewhere I Belong". Later, Bennington would also play rhythm guitar on live performances of "Iridescent". Bennington would also play rhythm guitar on live performances of a few songs from the album One More Light before his death in July 2017.
The song was remastered for iTunes in 2013, with a new arrangement of strings.
The music video was directed by band member Joe Hahn. It takes place during a large scale civil unrest in what appears to be the United States. The video was shot in Los Angeles at 20th Century Fox. The action was set up by stunt coordinator Steven Ho.
The music video was released to the internet on October 15, 2007. The video shows Chester Bennington waking up. His alarm clock reads 11:55, the then Doomsday Clock time, referencing the album title Minutes to Midnight and the song which is the fifth song on the album. The video is over four minutes long, meaning that the time at the end would be 11:59 PM, or one minute to midnight. Bennington then watches the news, washes up, gets dressed, and goes outside. The video takes place in a war-torn world, where mass chaos is ensuing on the streets of the city. There is a lot of violence going on with many police and gunshots. Plumes of smoke can be seen in the sky. Soldiers and riot police can be seen forcefully detaining civilians. Near the end of the video, a car is set on fire and bursts into flames as several people taking place in the riot throw molotov cocktails at police resulting in the Police Riot Control and SWAT teams opening fire and advancing while the mob of people retreat. A man suddenly throws a bottle of alcohol on a car and the car takes fire. Bennington then stands in front of the burning car, while looking at the carnage that surrounds him. He then turns towards the flames, and the video fades to black. The electronic/synth outro of the song is excluded on the video to make it a more appropriate finish. If listened to carefully towards the middle of the video, the mob is shouting 'we want freedom'.