''Inside Living Things'' is a documentary short film by

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 dr ...

, released on June 19, 2012 through

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and Machine Shop Records. The video was released a week before the band's fifth studio album, '' Living Things''. The release documented the band while recording their fifth studio album, '' Living Things''. Unlike other "

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" documentaries, this documentary was not included as a special edition DVD, but instead of that it was released as a video first for

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gaming consoles and later on the

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channel of the band. The video includes various footages from various videos from the "LPTV". The album was also previewed on

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. The cover art of the album was the same which was used for the vinyl version of the album.

Missing Chapters

The video consists of many chapters but it had some missing chapters. The missing chapters included "Piledriver" (Making of Lies Greed Misery), "Apaches" (Making of Until it Breaks), "360 Body Scan", "Making of the Album Cover" and "The Story". All of these videos were uploaded by the band on their YouTube channel.

Chapter listing

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, ...

– lead vocals *

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 ...

– drums, backing vocals *

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, 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's ...

– DJ, sampling, backing vocals * Dave "Phoenix" Farrell – bass, backing vocals *

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 vocali ...

– MC, vocals, beats, sampling, guitar

Production

* Produced by: Mike Shinoda * Edited by: Andrew Hayes * Technical director: Linkin Park * Art direction and design: Mike Shinoda

References

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