5 Mediocre Albums By Great Bands

5. Linkin Park - One More Light

Linkin Park had an interesting artistic trajectory in the 2010's. After ushering in electronics on A Thousand Suns and Living Things, their aggression came back with a vengeance on 2014's The Hunting Party. Fans were psyched that Linkin Park was getting back into rock again.

Once One More Light came out though, those same fans were especially heartbroken. Instead of continuing down the more aggro direction, Linkin Park decided to make a pop crossover that alienated a core portion of their fanbase. On songs like "Heavy" and "Battle Symphony," the keyboards and synths tend to drown out the rock instrumentation almost entirely.

Unfortunately, the One More Light tour cycle was also met with a tragic end as Chester Bennington committed suicide shortly thereafter. This album was not the band's greatest, but it will remain the band's unintended epitaph until further notice. Those circumstances help show the album in a different light, so to speak. Given the lyric sheet, fans can listen to the struggles that Bennington had with depression and how he was still diligently trying to face his demons. While this album is far from the band's finest hour, it doesn't diminish the great music that Bennington gave us throughout his lifetime.