--- product_id: 3760875 title: "A Thousand Suns" price: "£10.86" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/3760875-a-thousand-suns store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # A Thousand Suns **Price:** £10.86 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Thousand Suns - **How much does it cost?** £10.86 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/3760875-a-thousand-suns) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A Thousand Suns We were not making an album. For months, we'd been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination. We didn't know if any of those unorthodox ideas could be incorporated into a traditional album, but we knew we didn't want our next album to be predictable. Sitting together in the same studio where we made our first album, all six of us voiced a commitment to going out on a limb, to making something truly daring. We asked ourselves: were we all earnestly willing, more than ever before, to abandon the precepts of commercial ambition in pursuit of what we believe to be honest art? The inclination to begin writing conventional songs for a conventional album came and went. The temptation to adjust our creative vision to fulfill expectations beyond our studio walls yielded to the audacious ambition of what he hoped to achieve as a band. The two years of making A Thousand Suns marked our exhilarating, surrealistic, and often challenging journey into the creative unknown. On the eve of its completion, this body of work, assembled through unconscious inspiration and unmitigated exertion, has revealed to us notions both stirring and surprising. The album's personified imagery is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story. A Thousand Suns grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments. Enjoy the music. Linkin Park Review: LP releases a Classic LP! - Before I review "A Thousand Suns", let me ask all of the Linkin Park fans one question. Are you the same person you were 10 years ago? Evolution is a natural part of life. Everything changes. I just want to give you a little of my back story with Linkin Park. "Hybrid Theory" - The first time I heard "One Step Closer" in all honesty I wrote LP off as "just another overrated rap/rock group that was nothing special", and "very gimmicky". That all changed when I strolled into a record store that had "In The End" playing over the loud speakers. Mind you this was before "Crawling" was released as a single. I was hooked. Needless to say I left the store with "Hybrid Theory" in addition to my other purchases. After listening to HT in it's entirety, I took back everything I said about LP. "Reanimation" - I don't have too much to say about this since it's pretty much a remix album. The re-arrangements are nice. Aaron Lewis' vocals layered over Chester Bennington's on "KRWLNG" made a great song sound even better. "Meteora" - I snagged this on it's release date. I even caught their show when they came to town with P.O.D. and Hoobastank. IMHO, the album was too short. It was more or less "Hybrid Theory II", which wasn't a bad thing as it's a great album. "Numb", "Somewhere I Belong", and "Breaking The Habit" were pretty much anthems for me back then. They still get play in my iPod. I knew that the guys were capable of pushing the envelope, or evolving. "My December" was early proof that LP could evoke other emotions besides angst, fear and anger. "Minutes To Midnight" - This was the envelope pushing that I was alluding to earlier. It was a necessary shift for LP. If "MTM" sounded like "Hybrid Theory III" they would've been written off as a one-trick pony. There are only so many times you can go to the well...just ask Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Staind. Your sound will grow stale on listener's ears. "Bleed It Out" was the closest thing that sounded like the LP of old. They were slowly but surely shedding their skin. "Leave Out All the Rest", "What I've Done", "Hands Held High", these were all great songs. "The Little Things Give You Away" however, was their magnum opus. A very heartfelt song about a terrible disaster. If someone told me back then that LP would be do a song of that caliber I would've said they were crazy. This leads us too... "A Thousand Suns" - Epic. That was the first word that came to mind after I finished listening to "ATS" in it's entirety. It's a concept album but also a statement album. That statement is "No Fear". They weren't afraid to be creative or go outside of the boundaries of what fans expect of them, or what they expected of themselves. I chose to listen to "The Full Experience" to avoid rewinding or fast forwarding to another track. "When They Come For Me" blew me away. Mike's raps, the chants and the middle eastern style track blends nicely. "The Catalyst", "Waiting For The End", "Burning In The Skies" just to name a few, are all incredible songs. The tracks segue to create one awesome listening experience. I appreciate the fact that LP had the courage to be radically different on this album. I hope this review helps someone who's still on the fence about getting it. To the fans who've decided to drop LP like a bad habit because of this album, I quote Jay-Z's "On To The Next One" /"LP on that new sh--/ People like how come? / People want my old sh-- / Buy my old album / Review: Applause - First, I would just like to clarify my opinion on this album. While I believe that A Thousand Suns is not Linkin Park's best album, I do believe that it is something more. I believe that this album is art in its purest form. For years, I have been listening to Linkin Park, I have all their CDs, and I listen to them quite religiously, but I have never heard a sound from them that is quite like this, and frankly, I applaud them. Over the years, this band has strived for more than just chart-topping singles or record sales. They strive for art. This band did what other bands do not have the stomach to do: They went out on a limb, risked it all, and produced something that is new, groundbreaking, and most of all artful. They do not repeat themselves to appease what others perceive as their sound, write vainly, or walk the easy path by playing it safely. Every one of their albums tells a different story, inherently their own, and conveys that story with an enriching, fresh, and thoughtful sound, and one can always tell that that story, those emotions came from the band's own blood, sweat, and tears; being a musician myself, I appreciate that with the utmost respect and passion. So I recommend that you prepare to shatter your perceived mold of Linkin Park, and with an open mind, experience the art that is this wonderful album. Once again, Linkin Park's newest volume of art has changed my perspective of them, of music, and of the expression of emotions. I highly recommend that any fan of Linkin Park or music, or art, purchase this album, and really, really listen to it. ## Images ![A Thousand Suns - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Z8E8G1OEL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LP releases a Classic LP! *by J***E on September 20, 2010* Before I review "A Thousand Suns", let me ask all of the Linkin Park fans one question. Are you the same person you were 10 years ago? Evolution is a natural part of life. Everything changes. I just want to give you a little of my back story with Linkin Park. "Hybrid Theory" - The first time I heard "One Step Closer" in all honesty I wrote LP off as "just another overrated rap/rock group that was nothing special", and "very gimmicky". That all changed when I strolled into a record store that had "In The End" playing over the loud speakers. Mind you this was before "Crawling" was released as a single. I was hooked. Needless to say I left the store with "Hybrid Theory" in addition to my other purchases. After listening to HT in it's entirety, I took back everything I said about LP. "Reanimation" - I don't have too much to say about this since it's pretty much a remix album. The re-arrangements are nice. Aaron Lewis' vocals layered over Chester Bennington's on "KRWLNG" made a great song sound even better. "Meteora" - I snagged this on it's release date. I even caught their show when they came to town with P.O.D. and Hoobastank. IMHO, the album was too short. It was more or less "Hybrid Theory II", which wasn't a bad thing as it's a great album. "Numb", "Somewhere I Belong", and "Breaking The Habit" were pretty much anthems for me back then. They still get play in my iPod. I knew that the guys were capable of pushing the envelope, or evolving. "My December" was early proof that LP could evoke other emotions besides angst, fear and anger. "Minutes To Midnight" - This was the envelope pushing that I was alluding to earlier. It was a necessary shift for LP. If "MTM" sounded like "Hybrid Theory III" they would've been written off as a one-trick pony. There are only so many times you can go to the well...just ask Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Staind. Your sound will grow stale on listener's ears. "Bleed It Out" was the closest thing that sounded like the LP of old. They were slowly but surely shedding their skin. "Leave Out All the Rest", "What I've Done", "Hands Held High", these were all great songs. "The Little Things Give You Away" however, was their magnum opus. A very heartfelt song about a terrible disaster. If someone told me back then that LP would be do a song of that caliber I would've said they were crazy. This leads us too... "A Thousand Suns" - Epic. That was the first word that came to mind after I finished listening to "ATS" in it's entirety. It's a concept album but also a statement album. That statement is "No Fear". They weren't afraid to be creative or go outside of the boundaries of what fans expect of them, or what they expected of themselves. I chose to listen to "The Full Experience" to avoid rewinding or fast forwarding to another track. "When They Come For Me" blew me away. Mike's raps, the chants and the middle eastern style track blends nicely. "The Catalyst", "Waiting For The End", "Burning In The Skies" just to name a few, are all incredible songs. The tracks segue to create one awesome listening experience. I appreciate the fact that LP had the courage to be radically different on this album. I hope this review helps someone who's still on the fence about getting it. To the fans who've decided to drop LP like a bad habit because of this album, I quote Jay-Z's "On To The Next One" /"LP on that new sh--/ People like how come? / People want my old sh-- / Buy my old album / ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Applause *by N***S on October 1, 2010* First, I would just like to clarify my opinion on this album. While I believe that A Thousand Suns is not Linkin Park's best album, I do believe that it is something more. I believe that this album is art in its purest form. For years, I have been listening to Linkin Park, I have all their CDs, and I listen to them quite religiously, but I have never heard a sound from them that is quite like this, and frankly, I applaud them. Over the years, this band has strived for more than just chart-topping singles or record sales. They strive for art. This band did what other bands do not have the stomach to do: They went out on a limb, risked it all, and produced something that is new, groundbreaking, and most of all artful. They do not repeat themselves to appease what others perceive as their sound, write vainly, or walk the easy path by playing it safely. Every one of their albums tells a different story, inherently their own, and conveys that story with an enriching, fresh, and thoughtful sound, and one can always tell that that story, those emotions came from the band's own blood, sweat, and tears; being a musician myself, I appreciate that with the utmost respect and passion. So I recommend that you prepare to shatter your perceived mold of Linkin Park, and with an open mind, experience the art that is this wonderful album. Once again, Linkin Park's newest volume of art has changed my perspective of them, of music, and of the expression of emotions. I highly recommend that any fan of Linkin Park or music, or art, purchase this album, and really, really listen to it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Masterful Narrative Showcasing Lyrical Talent *by T***Y on August 4, 2017* I found this album awe-inspiring; a lyrical masterpiece that got me caught up in the narrative that Linkin Park was trying get across to their listener. I found the choices of the speeches that were selected for various songs just further added substance to what I deemed to be an incredible album. It is an absolute pleasure to listen to each time, hearing the words of Martin Luther King Jr., J. Robert Oppenheimer and Mario Savio. This album speaks volumes considering the nature of the world and the political climates we presently occupy. It is quite a departure in some respects from their debut album Hybrid Theory and I know some of the hardcore fans may not like it. Personally I feel it's worth taking a deeper look at and truly listening to the lyrics more intently. I had heard several of the songs on their own previously and loved them, but when listened to in the context of the full album and the meaning it was trying to get across speaks even more deeply. I would highly recommend taking the time and re-examining this album as it evokes a feeling of storytelling like listening to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" or Green Day's "American Idiot". I hope we may in time hear more from the group, but only time will tell where they go from here without the co-captain of their magnificent ship. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/3760875-a-thousand-suns](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/3760875-a-thousand-suns) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-26*