Not much needs to be said about Linkin Park. As one of the biggest rock bands around today, the Californian sextet took the world by storm with their debut album Hybrid Theory in 2000 and continued their raging success with Meteora in 2003. Along the way, there was a remixed album titled Collision Course with Jay Z and Mike Shinoda formed his side project Fort Minor.
Despite the distractions, the band took it back to the studio and spent over 14 months to work on their latest album Minutes To Midnight, a 12-track record produced by Rick Rubin and Shinoda.
"We're straying away from a lot of the predictable sounds we've had in the past, but there's no question in your mind when you hear it that it's Linkin Park," said frontman Chester Bennington in an MTV interview. "We've always said we write the music we write so that we can spread our wings as far as we want and try new things and go anywhere. I think we're really going to prove that with this new record."
New sound in tow, the band once again delivered another chart-topping album, with its lead single “What I’ve Done” debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock Tracks. The nu-metal sound might be long gone, but Linkin Park is definitely reinventing its wheel for longevity in the music scene.
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