The Brief

Linkin Park and Warner Bros Records are giving you the chance to make a music video for Burn it Down, the first single from their new album LIVING THINGS. Watch Mike Shinoda's intro!

We're providing you with the full performance video that's been made for the song. You can download it here and use as little or as much of it in your video as you like. We're not looking for different re-edits of the video - shoot some of your own footage or make your own animation, be original and get creative!  

Create your full length music video and upload it before July 6, 23:59 GMT.

Awards & Judging

The winner will receive $5,000 and have their video premiered on MTV globally. There will be huge global exposure for the winner and their video!

The winner and finalists will be chosen by Linkin Park, Warner Bros Records and Genero.  

Linkin Park

Ever since the early-aughts super-combo of Hybrid Theory and Meteora, Linkin Park has been doing something popular artists just don’t do: going off-menu. Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell, Joe Hahn and Mike Shinoda collectively came to the hard decision to deviate from the foundation of their success in search of fresh new sounds and ideas. On the records that followed, Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns, LP made the courageous leap into the unknown.

The learning curve was arduous, but a necessary and welcome challenge for the band. "Hybrid Theory" isn't just the title of the first album, but a career mission statement. From day one, Linkin Park built the band upon the premise of fusing all of their favorite styles of music—as disparate as they might be—into one signature sound. Fast-forward 12 years to LIVING THINGS and the same six players have not only developed new tools to make that philosophy a reality, but they’re finally comfortable embracing—and coalescing—every aspect of their career.

OK, maybe not the XXL work shirts and neon hair dye of the early days. But in their music, the band has spent the past year reinventing how to tastefully bridge the gap between all the musical destinations they've visited, and how to marry all the ideas they’ve accumulated. And as LIVING THINGS began taking shape, for the first time Linkin Park was eager to use every tool in their toolbox. With each song, they flexed their expertise with both cutting-edge and classic gear, and they infused their vocals with an honest, thrilling enthusiasm; they picked apart their own ideas of what defines a song, and what defines Linkin Park.

LIVING THINGS is a personal album, centered on human emotions and relationships implied by the title. It is informed by and built upon all previous Linkin Park albums, while still pushing the band’s sound into new territory. It's spirited, energetic, daring and unafraid to hybridize the past, present and future. It’s absolute proof to a radical theory six musicians have devoted their lives to testing.