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" Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda has said that the band have already started work on recording their fifth studio album. The band are currently promoting &amp;#039;Iridescent&amp;#039; from their latest album A Thousand Suns as the theme song for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but insist that work on the follow-up is already underway. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re always writing,&amp;quot; Shinoda told MTV News. &amp;quot;We kind of write it and record it at the same time, we can do it on the road at all times.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;But what it takes to go from one of those demos to a finished song, I mean, we really obsess over it,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;It takes a while.&amp;quot; While the band&amp;#039;s as-yet-untitled fifth album has yet to be given a release date, Shinoda says that fans can expect to hear it sooner rather than later. &amp;quot;We do have a really great head start. The creativity has continued to flow for us for the last few years,&amp;quot; he promised. &amp;quot;So we do plan on having this record out much quicker than what we&amp;#039;ve turned out in the past.&amp;quot; Shinoda also revealed that, like their previous albums, Linkin Park will show off a slightly different style on the new record. &amp;amp;gt; Transformers: Dark of the Moon premieres in Moscow Watch Linkin Park perform &amp;#039;Iridescent&amp;#039; at the world premiere for Transformers: Dark of the Moon in Moscow&amp;#039;s Red Square below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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