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Linkin Park are back back, back - and to celebrate MTV are bringing you the very first chance to see the video for their new single The Catalyst right here before anybody else.

The Catalyst is the first single to be taken from Linkin Park’s forthcoming new album A Thousand Suns, and features a video directed by the band's Joe Hahn.

"When coming up with the idea of the visual piece to accompany the song, I thought of the end," Hahn has said about the video.

“What would it look like and feel like if someone pushed the button to decide our fate? What would it feel like if we accepted our fate in the moment of devastation?

"If we had a final moment to celebrate our final living moments, how would that feel?

"When J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb described the first test detonation of the atomic bomb, he famously recalled the Bhagavad Ghita, which says, ‘If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one.’”