A Light That Never Comes

"A Light That Never Comes"
Single by Linkin Park and Steve Aoki
from the album Recharged
B-side"Until It Breaks" (Datsik Remix)
ReleasedOctober 11, 2013
Recorded2013
Genre
Length3:49 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Linkin Park
  • Steve Aoki
Producer(s)
Linkin Park singles chronology
"Castle of Glass"
(2012)
"A Light That Never Comes"
(2013)
"Guilty All the Same"
(2014)
Steve Aoki singles chronology
"Flight"
(2013)
"A Light That Never Comes"
(2013)
"Bring You to Life (Transcend)"
(2013)
Music video
"A Light That Never Comes" on YouTube

"A Light That Never Comes" is a song written and recorded by American rock band Linkin Park, and is their first collaboration with American DJ and record producer Steve Aoki. It was included on the band's second remix album, Recharged. It is the twenty-sixth single by the band. The song appears as the opening track on the album while a reboot version produced by Rick Rubin serves as the closing track. In addition to the song being released in advance when Recharged was partially released early on September 16, 2013,[5] "A Light That Never Comes" was released to radio and made available to stream as a promotional single on digital music service Xbox Music on the same day.[6][7] The CD single was released on October 11, 2013.[8]

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  5. ^ "Recharged". iTunes. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  6. ^ "A Light That Never Comes (Feat. Steve Aoki)". Xbox Music. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
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  8. ^ "A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES(2TRACK)". Warner. Retrieved 21 September 2013.