Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda teases animated video for World’s On Fire

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Mike Shinoda teams up with Crunchyroll to share teaser video for his Post Traumatic track World’s On Fire - featuring a giant evil space centipede

A still from the World's On Fire video (Image credit: Mike Shinoda)

Mike Shinoda (opens in new tab) has released an animated video teaser for his new single World’s On Fire.

The track features on the Linkin Park (opens in new tab) man’s 2018 solo album Post Traumatic (opens in new tab), with Shinoda teaming up with video streaming service Crunchyroll to premiere the clip at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Check out the teaser, which features an angry space centipede creating havoc, below.

Shinoda began working on the songs for Post Traumatic following the death of his Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington, with Shinoda saying it was “a journey out of grief and darkness, not into grief and darkness.”

He added: “If people have been through something similar, I hope they feel less alone. If they haven’t been through this, I hope they feel grateful.”

Shinoda will head back out on the road in support of the record across the Far East from next month (opens in new tab).

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.