The only problems i found with the album:
- Track Arrangement : Skin to Bone right after Roads Untraveled and Victimized after Castle of Glass was just a bad choice of order. But its only my opinion.
- First Listen Impact : Songs like Until It Breaks and Skin To Bone left little impact on me at first. Even overall, compared to all of their previous albums, the impact of this album was lesser than i expected. It was only after the second and third listens that I got blown away.
But come on dude, Mike is a good singer. Just because he was MC on their first 2-3 albums, doesn’t mean he can’t extend his repertoire. I always found it awkward when he just bobbed on stage during songs like runaway and one step closer. Now he plays keyboard for the former and guitar for the latter. There’s nothing wrong in that. Its only absurd that a fan advises/ instructs the band what to do. Linkin Park cares about their fans opinions, but doesn’t take orders from them.
Apart from that, I feel your opinion is honest and not even remotely rude, just blatantly absurd in comparing their albums and calling LT emo. If that’s the case, then my chemical romance should be classified under the “go jump off a frikkin cliff” rock music.