LINKIN PARK Singer Writing First Film Score

According to The Pulse Of Radio, LINKIN PARK singer Mike Shinoda has signed on to co-wrote a new score for the U.S. release of "The Raid", a new, no-holds-barred action film that premiered last Thursday (September 8) at the Toronto International Film Festival. Shinoda said in a statement about working on his first score, "The intense visuals and compelling story of 'The Raid' have made this an exciting first venture into scoring for me. I'm thrilled for LINKIN PARK fans to see and hear this film."

Shinoda has worked on movie music before with LINKIN PARK, but never on his own. The singer, who is also a music producer and painter, says that he likes to work on several different projects at once. "I like to focus on a lot of different things, and I tend to wander from one to the next," he said. "You know, I'm always doing a lot of different things. For some people, it's exciting, for me, that's just how I am. It's a lot of fun, and I like to kind of keep, you know, a lot of different things going at once."

"The Raid" is about an elite squad of cops who stage an assault on a 15-story building completely ruled by a drug lord and his army.

Twitchfilm called the film "a bad-ass fusion of 'Die Hard' and 'Assault On Precinct 13' . . . the bullets, blades, sticks, elbows and feet get flying early and never let up."

Sony Pictures has acquired the American distribution rights to the film, although there's no word yet on a release date or whether Shinoda's score will be issued as a soundtrack.

Shinoda and the rest of LINKIN PARK, meanwhile, continue to work on their next album, which will follow up last year's "A Thousand Suns".

A trailer for "The Raid" can be seen below. (Warning: extreme violence)