It was just a momentary whim as I walked by the new CD releases and thought, hmmm, I really liked Minutes to Midnight. So, having heard exactly zero songs off A Thousand Suns, I just bought it.
How to describe the impact of this collection of music/art? It is transcendent, lyrical, raw, devastated, mythic, atonal, grinding, pervasive, inward, screaming, absolute, discrete...I love it more than I…