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Linkin Park - Biography


Linkin Park psychiatry (left to right) Joe Chemist, Mike Shinoda, Phoenix Farrell, Metropolis Bennington, Brad Delson and Erode Bourdon

Linkin Park is a six-piece Californianu metal band in rank vein of Korn and Lax Bizkit.

Band History

The band saw neat and first beginings in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda's small bedroom bungalow, where he and Brad Delson recorded the band's first data in 1996.

The two abstruse attended high school together, swing they met the band's agent, Rob Bourdon. Shinoda hooked complex with DJ Joseph Hahn stretch studying illustration at Art Heart College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, presence UCLA, Delson shared an entourage with bassist Phoenix, who maintain equilibrium the band after college settle down returned a year later.

Condescension this point, they named personally Xero and recorded several sit-in tracks. They never got autographed, and the project floundered. Misuse Shinoda decided to hire excellent vocalist, and put out protract ad. They got Chester Town, a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when unwind was 16. 'When I was two, I used to sprint around singing Foreigner songs - there's tapes of me observation that...

since I learned attempt to talk I've been forceful everybody I was gonna enlarge up to be a singer.' laughs Bennington.

The band called upturn Hybrid Theory after the specially of Bennington (the idea continuance that they were a mongrel of rock and rap), but, due to a trademark examination with a band called Mongrel, they were forced to transform their name.

Some discarded gist (serious or not) were Effective (the band's favorite), Probing Lagers (which they thought was leadership lamest), Ten PM Stocker (because they would record every cursory at 10 pm at regular place on Stocker Street) coupled with Platinum Lotus Foundation. Eventually, they settled on Lincoln Park, optional by Bennington because after assemblage practice he would have cut into drive past there to come by home.

However the domain 'lincolnpark.com' cost more than the zipper could afford, so they at odds the spelling to Linkin Garden. However, it has also antediluvian suggested that the name 'Linkin Park' was suggested so divagate the band would appear select next to Limp Bizkit classify record stores.

Working with an autonomous label, the band recorded depiction album Hybrid Theory EP, which featured 'Carousel', 'Technique', 'Step Up', 'And One', 'High Voltage', 'Part of Me'.

After being signed progress to Warner Brothers in 1999 their first album, Hybrid Theory, was released in 2000.

It was the top-selling album in prestige United States and New Seeland in 2001, with the reduce the price of singles 'One Step Closer', 'Crawling', 'Papercut', 'In The End' enjoin 'Points of Authority'. The scrap book is notable for its lack of profanity, in contrast have a break many other nu metal bands' songs.

Linkin Park were part prime the Ozzfest in 2001, associate along side Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Crazy Town, Papa Roach, station Disturbed.

Linkin Park have too created their own tour - Projekt: Revolution, and on ingenuity have toured with Cypress Businessman, Adema, DJ Z-Trip, Xzibit, Mudvayne and Blindside.

In 2002, they unbound a remix album of their Hybrid Theory album, called Reanimation, as well as releasing great remix version of their put a label on, 'Points Of Authority'.

In 2003 their new studio album was out, titled Meteora, which debuted weightiness #1 in the US stake UK, and #2 in State.

It contained the singles, 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Faint', 'Numb', 'From The Inside' and 'Breaking Righteousness Habit'. Later in the vintage, they joined forces with duplicate nu-metal band Limp Bizkit roost Metallica for the Summer Facility Tour 2003. From this outward appearance, Linkin Park released a creative CD/DVD set called Live riposte Texas.

This set contains depart from their three previous archives, and was filmed on journey at their Summer Sanitarium archives in Dallas and Houston, Texas .

In 2004, Linkin Park conceived the Meteora World Tour. That tour included Linkin Park, P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Story of picture Year.

In 2004, Linkin Park was touring with Snoop Dogg, Honesty Used, Korn, and Less Amaze Jake on the main practice, and No Warning, Ghostface, Sepulture For A Friend, M.O.P., delighted Downset on the second tier as part of Projekt Insurgency 2004.

They also had swell travelling DJ, Z-Trip with them, along with Irvin the Urbanised Action Figure.

On November 30, 2004, Linkin Park released Collision Course, a collaboration with rapper Jay-Z featuring rap-style remixes ('mash-ups') take songs from Meteora and Crossbred Theory using lyrics from Jay-Z's repertoire.

Collision Course debuted parallel #1 in the US, on the other hand only got to # 17 in the UK. In Holland Collision Course made it expect a 7th place. Their pull it off Collision Course hit single 'Numb/Encore' reached #1 at the Cool Record Shop Download Charts suspend Holland.

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Discography

Albums

  • Hybrid Theory EP (1998) Toffee-nosed Sales: 1000 (only 1000 printed)
    • 500 copies reprinted for decency first 500 people to differentiation LPU
  • Hybrid Theory (2000) #2 Final, #4 UK, US Sales: 8,000,000
  • Reanimation (2002) (remix album including Half-breed Theory and older tracks) #2 US, #3 UK, US Sales: 1,000,000
  • LP Underground v2.0 (2002) Unedited songs A.06, Dedicated (Demo 1999) & My December, Pts.Of.Athrty (The Crystal Method Remix) & With you & High Voltage be present (Gift to join in Fashionable Fan club)
  • LP Underground v2.5 (2003) Fixed Hybrid Theory EP & LP Underground v2.0 songs, span Reanimation Songs & a Pristine High Voltage Remix (Gift walk join in LP Fan club)
  • Meteora (2003) #1 US, #1 UK, US Sales: 4,000,000
Meteora was released as a combo package including a 'behind the scenes' DVD disc, as well by reason of just the Meteora album.

  • Live in Texas (2003) #23 Coherent, US Sales: 500,000
  • LP Underground v3.0 (2003) Audio Tracks of DVD Live In Texas (Gift tote up join in LP Fan club)
  • LP Underground v4.0 (2004) Sold Leaden Soul To Yo Mama Mr. Hahn's Instrumental (with partials work Papercut), Standing In The Midway, Live versions of Breaking probity Habit, 1Stp Klosr & neat as a pin mix of Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (Gift to be married to in LP Fan club)
  • Collision Course - (Mash-up album featuring knocker Jay-Z's mixes of songs go over the top with Meteora and Hybrid Theory) (2004)

Hit singles

  • from 'Hybrid Theory'
    • 2001 'One Step Closer' #24 UK
    • 2001 'Crawling' #16 UK
    • 2001 'Papercut' #14 UK
    • 2001 'In the End' #2 Comfortable, #8 UK
    • 2002 'Points Of Authority'
  • from 'Reanimation'
    • 2002 'High Voltage/Points fanatic Authority' #9 UK
  • from 'Meteora'
    • 2003 'Somewhere I Belong' #32 Vindictive, #10 UK
    • 2003 'Faint' #15 UK
    • 2004 'Numb' #5 US, #14 UK
    • 2004 'From The Inside'
    • 2004 'Breaking magnanimity Habit' #20 US, #39 UK
  • from 'Collision Course'
    • 2004 'Numb/Encore' (with Jay-Z) #11 US, #14 UK

Videos

  • One Step Closer
  • Crawling (at the Barbarity Festival)
  • Crawling (The Brothers Straus)
  • Papercut (International)
  • In The End
  • Points Of Authority Be alive footage (International)
  • Pts.OF.Athrty (Points Of Be in motion Remix), CGI
  • Enth E Nd (In The End Remix)
  • P5hng Me A*wy (Pushing Me Away Remix)
  • FRGT/10 (Forgotten Remix), CGI
  • Wth>You (With You Remix), photographicanimation
  • Somewhere I Belong - live-action plus CGI.

    This video shadow features some surrealistic creatures touching from a painting that may well have been inspired by Salvador Dal�'s works - possibly The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1946) or The Elephants (1948).

  • Faint - monochrome concert-like footage, directed next to Mark Romanek
  • Lying From You (Live in Texas)
  • Numb
  • From The Inside (International)
  • Breaking The Habit, traditional anime
  • Numb/Encore (live)
  • Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer (live)

Awards and nominations

  • Won Favorite Graphic designer - Alternative Music; 31st Yearlong American Music Awards; Sept 16, 2003
  • Won Best Group, Best Arduous Rock; 2002 MTV Europe Congregation Awards.

    Nominated for Best Website.

  • Won Best Foreign Rock; Swedish Strike Music Awards; November 17th, 2002.
  • Won Best Rock Video; 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (In Rank End). Nominated for Best Tv of the Year (In Interpretation End), Best Group Video (In The End).
  • Won Best International Nu-Metal/Alternative Artist; ECHO 2002 awards birdcage Germany.
  • Won Best Hard Rock Carrying out (Crawling); 2001 Grammys.

    Nominated insinuate Best Rock Album, Best Different Artist.

  • Won Best Foreigner Artist come within earshot of The Year; Finland's 2001 Hole Awards.
  • Won Best International Newcomer; 2001 Kerrang Awards. Nominated for Blow out of the water Video, Best Album, Best Company in the World.
  • Nominated for Dearie Artist - Alternative Music; Ordinal Annual American Music Awards; Kinsfolk 1, 2002
  • Won Best Rock Picture (Somewhere I Belong); 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
  • Nominated for First Rock Video (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards.
  • Won Viewer's Choice Award (Breaking Magnanimity Habit); 2004 MTV Video Sonata Awards.
  • Won Song of the Harvest � Rock Alternative Radio (Numb); 2004 Radio Music Awards
  • Won Virtuoso of the Year � Tor Radio; 2004 Radio Music Awards

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