Friendly Fire (song)

"Friendly Fire" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. Originally recorded during sessions for their seventh studio album, One More Light (2017), it was later officially released on February 23, 2024, as the lead single from the greatest hits album Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000–2023). It appears as the 20th and final track on the album itself.

Background
In June 2020, Linkin Park member and co-founder Mike Shinoda revealed the existence of a song that contained Chester Bennington's vocals made during the recording sessions for the band's seventh studio album, One More Light (2017). The song, titled "Friendly Fire", was composed by Shinoda, the band's guitarist Brad Delson, and musician Jon Green, the latter who also served as co-writer of two other songs on the album, "Nobody Can Save Me" and "Battle Symphony". Shinoda, however, mentioned that it would be years before it would be released.

Composition
Eli Enis of Revolver described "Friendly Fire" as "[fitting] right in" with the electropop sound of One More Light.

Release
On February 19, 2024, Linkin Park released a series of images and videos on their social media channels revealing a 30-second audio clip of "Friendly Fire"; they also made a preview of the song available on their SoundCloud page the next day. "Friendly Fire" was then released digitally on February 23, 2024, as well as in CD single format in Germany. The song is featured as the 20th and final track of Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000–2023), a greatest hits album of the band's career that was released on April 12, 2024.

Music video
The music video for the song was released simultaneously with the song itself. It is made up of footage of the band during the One More Light recording sessions, particularly Bennington singing his parts for the song, backstage footage, as well as live performance clips from the One More Light tour.

Personnel
Linkin Park
 * Chester Bennington – vocals
 * Rob Bourdon – drums
 * Brad Delson – guitar
 * Phoenix – bass guitar
 * Joe Hahn – DJ
 * Mike Shinoda – vocals, keyboards, programming

Additional musicians
 * Jon Green – additional guitar

Technical
 * Brad Delson – producer
 * Mike Shinoda – producer, engineer
 * Corin Roddick – additional production, additional programming
 * Jon Green – additional production
 * Andrew Dawson – additional programming, co-producer
 * Alejandro Baima – assistant engineer
 * Warren Willis – assistant engineer
 * Jerry Johnson – drum techincian
 * Ethan Mates – engineer
 * Josh Newell – engineer
 * Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – masterer
 * Manny Marroquin – mixer
 * Andrew Bolooki – vocal producer