On Tuesday, at a press conference announcing Linkin Park's upcoming tour with Thirty Seconds to Mars and AFI, Radio.com got a chance to speak with the band's two frontmen, Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington, who explained why "Guilty All The Same" seemed like the perfect song to reintroduce the band.

"The reason we went with this single first is that we think it's a good look into the DNA of the record that we're putting out this summer," Shinoda said of the guitar-shredding 6-minute track.

"A few months ago I was making some demos and writing this stuff and it sounded like something that you could play on the radio," Shinoda explained. "I listen to a lot of indie music� and I was listening to the demos and thought, I don't want to make any of that music. What is it that's not out there right now that I'm all about, that I'm fired up about that is a void? It ended up being this new material."

He added, "It's louder; it's more visceral than probably anything we've done recently. And we're all really proud of it."

The song features an epic intro, which at first listen could be mistaken for that of labelmate, Avenged Sevenfold. But nearly three minutes into the relentlessly hard rocking song, legendary MC Rakim can be heard spitting a few rhymes.