Indeed, as their original band name and debut album title suggested, they were a hybrid of forces, relying as much on the vocal interplay between singer Chester Bennington and rapper Mike Shinoda as on the band's muscled instrumentation, which layered DJ Hahn 's effects atop heavy, processed guitars and pounding percussion. No matter their direction, pain and catharsis remained at their core.
From the commercial peak of their hip-hop-influenced, multi-platinum breakthrough albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora , into a brief electronic phase 's A Thousand Suns , and ultimately to their final pop moment 's One More Light , they stayed ahead of the curve without sacrificing heaviness or chart success.
Months after the release of their seventh and final album as the founding lineup, frontman Chester Bennington passed away, closing the book on a nearly two-decade run that included five chart-topping albums and tens of millions of records sold across the globe. Few companies expressed interest in Xero 's self-titled demo tape, however, prompting Wakefield to leave the lineup he would later resurface as the manager for Taproot.
When replacement singer Chester Bennington climbed aboard in -- sharing vocal duties with Shinoda in what would become a crucial part of their signature sound -- they rebranded as Hybrid Theory and issued an eponymous EP. Still struggling to find an audience, they finally caught the attention of Warner Bros. With support from Warner Bros.
Linkin Park titled their debut album Hybrid Theory , a tribute to the band's past, and released the record during the fall of Modern Rock chart while peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot , an example of the band's crossover appeal.
Linkin Park joined the Family Values Tour and played shows with Cypress Hill , leading the group to log over shows in alone. Come January , Hybrid Theory had received three Grammy nominations and sold over seven million copies. Sales later topped ten million, earning the album "diamond status" and making Hybrid Theory one of the most successful debuts ever. Despite their meteoric rise, however, Linkin Park spent the remainder of the year holed up in the recording studio, again working with producer Don Gilmore on a follow-up album.
Meanwhile, the timely summer release of the platinum Reanimation helped appease the band's eager audience, offering remixed versions of Hybrid Theory 's tracks by famous faces from bands such as Korn , Deftones , Orgy, Jurassic 5 , the Roots , Taproot , Marilyn Manson , Staind , and Dilated Peoples. Facing overwhelming expectations, their official sophomore effort, Meteora , arrived in March The chart-topping record spawned several modern rock hits, including "Numb," "Somewhere I Belong," and "Breaking the Habit," which furthered the band's crossover appeal by simultaneously charting on the Hot Linkin Park once again supported the album with ample touring, including performances with the second annual Projekt Revolution Tour the band's own traveling festival, which originally launched in and additional shows with the likes of Metallica and Limp Bizkit.
Live in Texas was released to document the band's strength as a touring act, and the bandmates tackled various personal projects before beginning work on a second remix project.
Released in , Collision Course found the band collaborating with rapper Jay-Z , resulting in a number of mashups that sampled from both artists' catalogs. Collision Course topped the charts upon its release, the first EP to do so since Alice in Chains ' Jar of Flies , and Jay-Z furthered his association with the band by asking co-founder Mike Shinoda to explore the possibility of a solo hip-hop project.
Linkin Park then reconvened in to begin work on a third studio album, which saw Shinoda sharing production credits with Rick Rubin. The song is also used in soundtrack for the action film, Transformers.
The band completed touring on its fourth Projekt Revolution tour before taking up an Arena tour around the United Kingdom, visiting Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, before finishing on a double night at the O2 arena in London. Bennington stated that Linkin Park plans to release a follow-up album to Minutes to Midnight. However, he stated the band will first embark on a United States tour to gather inspiration for the album. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Bennington said that the band had already begun writing new material for the album, and Shinoda too stated that the album could well be released in late In October Shinoda revealed on his blog that he, Phoenix and Hahn had begun working on two song ideas at Hahn's home, with studio recording to begin in earnest soon.
In , Bennington announced that Linkin Park's fourth studio release will be a concept album. The band has not released many specific details about the album. In an interview with MTV in November , Bennington stated, "It sounds a little daunting to me, so, I think my confidence level will drop, but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours, we liked the idea.
It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to". He also added that the band planned to begin recording in December for a six-week session. The album was expected in mid , but in late March, Mike Shinoda wrote on his blog saying "We're hoping to have Chester's Dead By Sunrise album out this fall, and the new LP album out early next year. In December , Digidesign gave the band the opportunity to preview the new Pro Tools 8 software.
The experiment resulted in an instrumental song performed by Shinoda and Bourdon. The song, entitled "Lockjaw", was made available to the band's fan club as a free download. On May 7th, it was further confirmed that the song recorded for the film is titled "New Divide," and was released as a single on May 18th.
A clip from the song can be heard 14 seconds into the new trailer. In May , Linkin Park announced that they are working on their fourth album which will be released in , with the aim for it to be "genre-busting. Rubin and Shinoda previously worked together on Minutes To Midnight. The first single, " The Catalyst " is the first song in 14 months on the Rock Songs chart to hit number one.
A Thousand Suns deals with themes of nuclear warfare, social injustice and technology. The idea for the name of the album comes from a quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer , "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. A Thousand Suns has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide and , were sold in its first week. In July , Bennington told Rolling Stone that Linkin Park aims to produce a new album every eighteen months, and that he would be shocked if a new album did not come out in He later revealed in another interview in September that the band was still in the beginning phases of the next album, saying "We just kind of began.
We like to keep the creative juices flowing, so we try to keep that going all the time Joe Hahn directed the video. Shinoda spoke to Co. Create about the album's art, saying that it will "blow them [the fans] away So there's going to be that. Shinoda stated that they chose the title Living Things because the album is more about people, personal interactions, and it is far more personal than their previous albums. The band promoted the album on the edition of the Honda Civic Tour, with co-headliners Incubus.
Living Things sold over , copies during its debut week, ranking No. The band also performed at the award ceremony on December 7, but lost the award to "Cities" by Beck.
Linkin Park also played at the Soundwave music festival in Australia, where they shared the stage with Metallica, Paramore, Slayer and Sum The band announced that they were working on the soundtrack for an upcoming film called Mall, directed by Joe Hahn. In an interview with Fuse, Mike Shinoda stated they have began working on their sixth album. On May 19, , Bennington confirmed that he would begin recording material with Stone Temple Pilots.
He still plans on remaining part of Linkin Park. The new and upcoming EP has been announced on August 29 via their official website and Facebook, titled High Rise, which features the current single "Out of Time" released on May 19, A live recording of a video can be found on YouTube. On the day of the game's release, Linkin Park made a post on their Facebook explaining that the song used to promote the game will be included on a new remix album, entitled Recharged, which was released for October 29, in CD, vinyl, and digital download.
Linkin Park announced that they had begun working on new material for a seventh studio album in November Mike Shinoda stated the band was following a new process when producing the album. Brad Delson elaborated: "We've made so many records and we clearly know how to make a record and we definitely didn't take the easy way out this time.
The first single from the new album was revealed to be titled "Heavy" and features pop singer Kiiara, the first time the band has featured a female vocalist on an original song for a studio album. The single was released for download on February Select personalised content.
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