This week on Broken Records Remfry and Steve continue their search for the very worst record in history by looking at one of the most commercially successful metal (or ‘metal’ if you want to be a dick about it) bands … well … ever! Must be said though that One More Light, the band in questions seventh full-length studio album, is not the greatest moment from the career of nu-metal turned boring plod electro rockers Linkin Park.

Released on 19th May 2017, it was the last Linkin Park album to feature lead vocalist Chester Bennington before his death on July 20, 2017. Whilst the record was savaged by critics upon its release, shortly after Bennington’s death there was a re-appraisal of sorts from some critics, who decreed that One More Light’s ambiguous, vaguely melancholy lyrics were in fact an unequivocally lucid document of the tortured vocalist’s final days. Whether One More Light is this generation’s In Utero or not (spoiler alert … it isn’t) it’s difficult, nigh on impossible to defend the dreary, uninspired, one-note electro-pop dross.

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