Linkin Park and Transformers 3: First Look Video

Linkin Park has released a Transformers 3: First Look Video on their YouTube channel which gives a background look into how the song Iridescent from their latest album A Thousand Suns was selected for the 3rd installment in the transformers movie series, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

The video starts off with Mike Shinoda saying how he was a transformers fan when he was just a kid. He goes on with how the movie mood ties in with the band's direction and how while the band was on tour, they got a call from the Transformers 3 team asking if they got anything for the new movie. Steve Jablonsky, the composer for the movie also appears in the video and mentions that he has been a fan of Linkin Park even before work on the movies. He talks about how the Linkin Parks's songs have always translated well into the big screen and the songs.

The Michael Bay directed movie, Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens in cinemas here 30th June.