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Linkin Park like to "challenge" themselves when they hit the studio to make a new album.

The rockers are currently working on their first LP in three years (the follow-on disc from 2007's "Minutes To Midnight"), but recording is taking longer than planned.

Frontman Mike Shinoda says of the band's next album: "We make records as a challenge to ourselves. And the challenge this time is: 'Nobody else is making a record that sounds like this, only we can do it.'

"It's been going great, I feel like it's an entirely different process and an entirely different style of music than anything we've done before."

Shinoda told MTV: "It's hard to place. People keep asking me, 'What does it sound like?' and it's hard to describe. When people hear it, they're going to have a tough time saying that it falls into a category.

"The album is going really well - we decided to go with Rick Rubin again, he's been in the studio with us." Added the Linkin Parksinger.

"And we've been working in a different studio than we did the last record in, we decided to go back to the studio we did 'Hybrid Theory' and 'Meteora' in."

Thanks for the report to Angryape.com.