Linkin Park - New Divide

'New Divide' is a single written by Linkin Park for Michael Bay's film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The song serves as the film's theme, and was released as a digital download single on May 18th 2009. Mike Shinoda stated in March "We've been working on a new song in the past couple of weeks that has been a lot of fun. The backdrop for the song is built on layered, heavy synths and a sharp performance by Rob Bourdon [the band's drummer]". On April 24th, Shinoda revealed that they were working with film score composer Hans Zimmer, writing various interpretations of 'New Divide' to serve as thematic elements for the film. 'New Divide' debuted at No.6 on the Billboard Hot 100. At the time of writing the song has entered the UK Singles Chart at No.20.

The music video was shot on location at Paramount Studios May 13th/14th 2009, is set in an Egyptian cave and was directed by Mr. Hahn, the band's DJ. The video uses a lot of interesting cutting-edge visual techniques, blurring the line between the band's performance and some kind of digital/mechanical reality. Chester Bennington confirmed that the video is related to the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie, saying on his blog, "Honestly, I don't know what's going on in the video. We're in a tomb rocking out and there's a huge dead Transformer". The music video has more Special Effects than any single before. Bassist Phoenix is hardly viewed in the video as he had hurt his wrist during the recording sessions.