"Battle Symphony" is a promotional single by American rock band

Linkin Park Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drumm ...

. The song was recorded by the band for their seventh studio album, titled '' One More Light''. The song appears on the album as the fourth track. The song was written by Linkin Park members

Brad Delson Bradford Phillip Delson (born December 1, 1977) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the rock band Linkin Park.

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Mike Shinoda Michael Kenji Shinoda (; ja, 篠田賢治, Shinoda Kenji; born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 and was the band's collaborative vocal ...

. The song was released on March 16, 2017, but it was leaked some days before.

Background

The title "Battle Symphony" was first seen in a picture posted on Joe Hahn's Instagram story on September 6, 2016 of Brad playing acoustic guitar with the band's song board behind him, he also copyrighted. The band premiered the lyrics on Genius.com.

Music video

On January 12, Melissa Fox, a photographer from

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, ran into Linkin Park and confirmed that they were shooting a music video at the 4th Street Bridge.

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rider Alfredo Mancuso also ran into the band that same day and lent his drone to the band so they could shoot some footage with it. The "Battle Symphony" lyric video was released on March 16, 2017 and received 4.8 million views during its first week on

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. As of 31 December 2021, the lyric video has gained over 87 million views.

Usage in media

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''. This is the second time a song from Linkin Park had featured since All for Nothing with

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. This song is used in the

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Personnel

Linkin Park *

Chester Bennington Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, ...

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Rob Bourdon Robert Gregory Bourdon (born January 20, 1979) is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founding member of the American rock band Linkin Park. Early life Bourdon was born in Calabasas, California. He received classical piano l ...

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Brad Delson Bradford Phillip Delson (born December 1, 1977) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the rock band Linkin Park.

– guitars * Dave "Phoenix" Farrell –

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, backing vocals *

Joe Hahn Joseph Hahn (born March 15, 1977) is an American musician, DJ, director and visual artist best known as the DJ of the American rock band Linkin Park, doing the scratching, turntables, sampling, and programming for all seven of Linkin Park ...

("Mr. Hahn") – programming, samplers *

– keyboards, backing vocals Production personnel * Produced by Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson * Written by Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Jon Green * Vocals by Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda and Dave Farrell * Vocal production by Andrew Bolooki * Engineered by Mike Shinoda, Ethan Mates and Josh Newell * Mixed by Manny Marroquin * Mixing engineered by Chris Galland * Mixing assisted by Robin Florent and Jeff Jackson * Mastered by Chris Gehringer Notes * Credits from streaming website.One More Light- Linkin Park–Download and listen to the album
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Charts

References

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