LINKIN PARK: 'Waiting For The End' Video Released

"Waiting For The End", the new video from LINKIN PARK, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by the band's Joe Hahn, who states about the video, "It was an opportunity to experiment with pushing the digital envelope as it pertains to the visual language created thus far for [the new LINKIN PARK album] 'A Thousand Suns'. It was my attempt to digitally crush us to the point that you feel the soul of the music through what has become the essence of us.

"We become the ghosts in the machine. Some may say that because of technology, we lose a sense of who we are. I counter that by illustrating that we can get closer to who we are if we sift through the noise.

"If this sounds like it's too 'out there,' just ignore what I said and enjoy the pretty pictures."

LINKIN PARK frontman Chester Bennington told MTV News on Monday (October 4) that the days of the band selling 10 million copies of an album, like its 2000 debut "Hybrid Theory", are long gone. The latest LINKIN PARK record, "A Thousand Suns", debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart with sales of 240,000 copies in its first week, lower than the band's previous efforts.

Bennington explained, "Trying to compare anything to 'Hybrid Theory' in terms of sales is an exercise in futility: It's not gonna happen. That's the reality of the situation. (Second album 'Meteora') did huge numbers the first week, it was like 800,000. 'Minutes To Midnight' was in the 600,000 mark, and this one's at the 240,000 mark; that's a sign of the times . . . people get their music in different ways now."

"Meteora" sold 810,000 copies in its first week of release, while 2007's "Minutes To Midnight" moved 623,000.

Thanks to downloading and file sharing, Bennington said, "There's probably 10 million people out there who have the record that we don't know about."