Linkin Park is an American band from Los Angeles, California, United States rock. Formed in 1996, the Group was initially composed by Mike Shinoda, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon and Mark Wakefield, the latter as lead vocals. The band started in the same year his first musical works independently and after this they recorded their first material called Xero; However did not have great success in the search for a record label since none showed interest in their work, resulting in the resignation of Mark Wakefield. Soon after, Chester Bennington joined the band as a vocalist; the Group made its first debut in a Los Angeles club being backed by Jeff Blue, at that then Vice President of Warner Bros. Records, managed to sign with the label in 1999. The Group's name is a play on words referring to Lincoln Park in Santa Monica.
The first years of the band go back to a small Studio of vocalist Mike Shinoda where he, along with a friend and schoolmate Agoura High School, Brad Delson recorded the first material from the band in 1995. The two were in the same school, where they met Rob Bourdon, current drummer for the band. Later, when they took up the theme of the band more seriously, Shinoda contacted Joe Hahn while studying at the Art Center College in Pasadena. For his part, Delson shared apartment with bassist David Farrell, who decided to leave the group, because it was committed to its other training. Farrell returned a year later. At that time he joined the band Mark Wakefield, in 1996.
In 1997 there were six members in the Group and they decided to be called SuperXero that subsequently is veria summary only to Xero. They recorded in the bedroom used as a Studio of Shinoda several songs in order to get a contract a record label. Although the Xero Sampler Tape compilations were made with few resources, could not the band get a contract and the project did not prosper. The disappointment was so great within the band that, for the same reason, Mark Wakefield decided to leave the group. Farrell, just decided to leave the group for a time, and that the above project, The Snax band, had to do some touring, by what it they had to accompany. While the band that integrates Kyle Christene, as a temporary bassist.
Wakefield was vocalist of Xero, so his departure provoked that the group got a new singer. Shinoda put an ad in a newspaper in order to hire a new vocalist. Chester Bennington was interested in that ad. Bennington is Arizona State, was in the Grey Daze group and also started to record albums with the group mentioned above since the age of 16. He received demos group, with songs by other vocalist and instrumental versions. Once completed the work of Bennington's record your voice in demos them instrumental, called them warning that it was ready. Those of the band asked him to a recording made by Bennington put it to the phone. The band was impressed by her voice, so they decided to call him immediately.
Following the integration of Bennington in 1999, the band was called Hybrid Theory. Since the band was concerned in making a new material, working on an independent label. But to register the name of the group, had a problem, as there was a group with the name Hybrid, by what the band had to change their name again. After so many names, Bennington proposed that the band be called Lincoln Park, where he spent with his car back from studies, as an homage to Santa Monica's Lincoln Park. Since the band was called Lincoln Park, but there was another problem, since the domain "lincolnpark.com" was more of what the band could afford, they changed the word Lincoln by Linkin and from that moment it was called the band "Linkin Park" until today
Previously they were working on a new material which turned out to be an EP, called Hybrid Theory EP. This EP contained 6 songs: Carousel, Technique, Step Up, And One, High Voltage, and Part of Me. It was released in 1999.Linkin Park followed by the struggle of finding a record label contract, there were many rejections by major record labels. Jeef Blue aided them in this. This then became Vice President of Warner Bros. Records, since Linkin Park signed to this label. Already at the hand of Warner Bros., the band worked for a new study that material was launched a year later. Scott Koziol, temporary bassist of the band is integrated into the realization of this work. This work would be one of the best group: Hybrid Theory.Hybrid Theory (2000-2002)
The first album of Linkin Park called Hybrid Theory was released on October 24, 2000. This album cost Linkin Park half a year of work. Its producer was Don Gilmore. The disc had a good reception by fans. The Group sold more than 4.8 million copies only in its debut year. The album is composed in majority by lyrical themes that deal with the problems affecting Bennington during his adolescence, including drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse and divorce among parents.The album was #2 in the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached very good and important positions in the rest of the world. The band has sold 24 million copies worldwide, and of those, 10 million copies have been sold only in the United States, making it the best selling album in the 21st century.In 2001, Linkin Park was part at the Ozzfest, in which were many artists on tour, such as Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Crazy Town, Papa Roach, and Disturbed. It was a time in which Linkin Park received many invitations to perform high-profile tours such as for example in the recently mentioned Ozzfest, Family Values Tour and KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. The band launched its own tour, Projekt Revolution, which was attended by invited artists such as Cypress Hill, plus, DJ Z-Trip, Xzibit, Mudvayne, Blindside, and Snoop Dogg called. Within a year, Linkin Park had performed over 320 concerts. Also in 2001, bassist Koziol leaves the Group since it turns Farrell
Returning to the topic of the discography, Linkin Park released a special edition of her album Hybrid Theory on March 11, 2002 in Japan. This special edition contains the entire album Hybrid Theory, as well as 3 songs ("Papercut", "Points of Authority" and "A Place for My Head") live from Docklands Arena, London, a new theme "My December" and also a theme of Hybrid Theory EP, except that this version It was remixed, adding a completely different musical background and a bridge which appears Chester Bennington "High Voltage".Later, in that same year, on July 30, Linkin Park released a new album of remixes entitled Reanimation. This album features remixes of songs from Hybrid Theory and Hybrid Theory EP. Reanimation received the collaboration of numerous artists, such as Black Thought, Jonathan Davis, Aaron Lewis, among others. While this album was made of old material from the group, it was Platinum in the United States, selling 1 million copies. Only in its week debut sold nearly 270,000 copies
Many concerts and tours in the world, were made until in own bus tour, the band began work on a new album: Meteora.Meteora (2002-2004) Linkin Park followed in tours and concerts as he had said earlier, and since they would continue to be so for a long time, the band decided to work on their new album on the bus on the tour and use it as a study. The band worked on the new album between saturated and also in his free time schedule.The band announced the production of a new Studio album in December 2001 and reveals his new work inspired by the Rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries on top of the stones have been built. Meteora offered again the Rapcore and Nu metal, as in Hybrid Theory but with the addition of new and innovative instruments, such as a Shakuhashi (a Japanese flute made of bamboo) and new sound effects. Something interesting is that the synchronization of the songs on the album is given in almost the entire album.
The producer of the album Meteora was once again Don Gilmore. The band worked almost all the year 2002 on the album, until December of the same year.Linkin Park's second album was released worldwide on March 25, 2003. On the day of his debut he won worldwide recognition, since it was #1 in the United States and United Kingdom and #2 in Australia. The band sold more than 800,000 copies in the first week. In October of 2003, nearly 3 million copies were sold. It was a bestseller this album, clear that the band received strong criticisms. According to Allmusic.com, he says that "Is nothing more nor nothing less than Hybrid Theory part 2" and Blender qualifies it as "harder, denser, uglier".The album allowed Linkin Park to make a new tour, Projekt Revolution, inviting artists such as Mudvayne, Blindside, and Xzibit. Also in 2003 Metallica invited him along with Limp Bizkit, Mudvayne and Deftones to participate in the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003. Linkin Park released in the same year an album containing a CD and a DVD, these had title Live In Texas that collected performances that took Linkin Park in Texas. In 2004 the band toured again throughout the world called Meteora World Tour. On 29 June of that same year the band released a new album called Meteora Tour Edition, which contains the songs from Meteora in versions which occurred all over the world on the Meteora World Tour live.Minutes to Midnight (2007) Linkin Park took part in Japan on 12 and 13 August 2006 "Summer Sonic Festival". On 6 March 2007, published on his MySpace and Linkin Park Mike Shinoda a post about the new album called Minutes to Midnight, which was launched on 15 may (2007) in the United States and on 14 may in other countries.The first simple What I've Done was released on 2 April 2007. The album shows alternative Rock more "soft" (in comparison to the previous albums) with that much of his audience felt disappointed and some not so much, claiming an evolution in their sound. Its producer is Rick Rubin who has worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Audioslave, Metallica, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Satanic, U2, and many others. To date have been simple four more. The last of these Leave Out All The Rest one of so many melodic ballads along with Shadow Of The Day, included in this album. Minutes To Midnight has won more than 20 gold albums and some Platinum, surpassing the record of Madonna. They are currently touring with this new work, presumably until the beginning of 2009.A Thousand Suns (2010)
In 2008, Chester announced in an interview to MTV that the fourth work of study would be a 'concept album'. The band returned to the recording studios in 2009, since then and as proof of this, they began to publish regularly information as a riddle in a not very clear in which revealed something about the new album of the band. Shinoda told the magazine IGN that the new album would be a «genre busting", also mentioned that it would be more experimental and avant-garde. July 7, 2009, Chester confirmed that Rick Rubin would return as a producer on the new album. In the Festival MTV Ululame, MTV interviewed Chester and commented that Linkin Park's new album would possibly be in the market for June 2010.A Thousand Suns was confirmed on July 8, it was announced that he would be on September 14, 2010 in United States in the official website of the band, whose first single was "The Catalyst", which was officially launched to the market on August 2 of the same year. In July 2010, the developer of video games Electronic Arts announced that this single would be part of the soundtrack of the game Medal of Honor.156 157 to the already available on the market, be A Thousand Suns topped the charts in several countries, including the Billboard 200, since sold more than 241 000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at number two in the United Kingdom having sold 46 711, copies being overcome by the Science & Faith album from the band The Script.For the promotion of the album, the band began a concert tour which began in Los Angeles on 7 September. On October 5, 2010 was published on iTunes the second single, "Waiting for the End".165 in addition, a documentary called A Thousand Suns: the full experience about the publication of the album, which was available on the MySpace of the band. In France, the album became the fourth position, which is nevertheless lower than the two previous albums. The third single from the album, "Burning in the Skies", was released on February 24, 2011. The music video premiered on MTV on March 21, 2011 and was directed by Joe Hahn.April 13, 2011, Shinoda confirmed the fourth single from the album, 'Iridescent'. Also said that there would be another slightly more short version of the song for the soundtrack of the film Transformers: the dark side of the luna.168 music video was also directed by Joe Hahn and premiered on June 3, 2011 on the MTV website and little later on YouTube. Linkin Park reached number eight on the Billboard Social 50, a list of the most active artists in major social networks in the world. End of year charts, the band arrived to number ninety-two on the list of major artists, so how also reached number fifty-three on the Billboard 200 list and number seven on the list of albums of rock However, 'The Catalyst' obtained the position number forty in the list of songs from rock, all belonging to the Billboard magazine.In 2010, they began their A Thousand Suns Tour tour, starting concerts for the first time in South America, where he visited Argentina and Chile 7 and 9 October respectively. They were also on October 11 in Brazil, where already had played only once in 2004, during the tour of Meteora. They also conducted performances in Europe, Asia and Oceania. In 2011, the Group was nominated in six categories at the Billboard Awards, which were: top duo/group, rock, artist album rock, alternative artist, alternative song by "Waiting for the End ' and alternative album, but did not win any prize.Living Things and heaven (2011-2013) in June 2011, Chester revealed to the magazine Kerrang! Linkin Park had begun working on new material for their next album. He explained: "we have been working on a new album. The music is great and we are much more advanced than we expected to be. There are many noises, but there are many good songs. Probably generate a polarized reaction. I am so pleased. As an artist I hope a reaction'. The singer added that what they wanted on the disc was to deal with controversial issues, rather than personal matters that were played in their first studio albums. "We have learned how to write songs and serious lyrics, have learned to deal with politics, faith and other things".Rick Rubin was once again the producer of the material. He said: "once a week we will meet to hear all the material we have and discuss about it, this to avoid some errors that were committed in the process of recording of the last two albums". In July 2011, Chester told Rolling Stone that Linkin Park was aimed to produce a new album every eighteen months, and that he would be surprised if the new album is not ready for 2012. The band continued recording and producing the material even while they were on tour, something similar to what happened in the process of recording their album Meteora. In March 2012 the vocalist of the band spoke to the magazine Kerrang! about the new album saying: «we went crazy in our previous album, A Thousand Suns, it was an experimental album that long polarized fans of Linkin Park, but the group is aware of his actions ". This production did not have those musical elements characteristic of the band, which led to a series of disappointments for some. On the new album we will incorporate much work with guitars, many choirs and a heavier electronic sound.The band revealed on March 28 on his official website, that the first single from the album would be called "Burn It Down"; which was released on April 16, 2012. Mike Shinoda confirmed April 15 on its official blog that the fifth album would be called Living Things, which was the result of the mixture of all the sounds and tastes of each of the members of the group, referring to that is the return to the «authentic Hybrid Theory ', referring to the taste of the band when it comes to mixing sounds. This album was released on 26 June 2012.The first video from the album was the single "Burn It Down". The second video was the second single, "Lost in the Echo», which premiered on August 29, 2012, while the third was the «Castle of Glass» in conjunction with the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter, premiered on October 10.In may 2013 Bennington confirmed his collaboration with the band Stone Temple Pilots on a series of presentations, as well as recording the High Rise EP serving as a new Member of the same; However he assured that Linkin Park 'remains its priority», 185 186 the album was released on 8 October 2013 under the name of «Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington», 187 this album contains the singles "Out of Time" and "Black Heart".188 on October 29 of that same year Linkin Park released their second album remix which includes versions of its predecessor Living Things, this material was released in various formats; compact disc, disc vinyl and digital download.The Hunting Party (2014) the band is currently working on the soundtrack for the film "Mall", directed by Joe Hahn. In an interview with Fuse, Mike Shinoda stated that he began to work on their sixth album.Shinoda recently insinuated in his blog entry that the sixth album will be released in 2014. In March 2014, Linkin Park released a new single entitled "Guilty All the Same", the subject has count with the collaboration of Rakim, being the first single from the sixth album. Later it was revealed that is call "THe Hunting Party" and was released on June 17, 2014.Style of music both Hybrid Theory as Meteora had Nu Metal sound with influences and elements of Industrial Rock, Synth rock, Electronica, drums and bass, using synthesizers and developers.On the album Minutes to Midnight, the band experimented with their established sound more influences from various genres of music and styles. The Los Angeles Times compares them to the work of U2. In this same album in only two songs are RAPs. It is also the first album featuring only guitar and Mike Shinoda singing rather than rapping.The use of the two types of song Linkin Park has made much of his music. Chester Bennington is best known for their cries nu metal although also used melodic singing and has the 46th place in the list of singers in heavy metal magazine Hit Parader "Heavy Metal completo all-time Top 100 Vocalists". Mike Shinoda is the rapper of the band. Also does backing vocals on some songs, but on the new album has sung three songs; He has been on the list of "Heavy Metal completo all-time Top 100 Vocalists" at 72nd place.In his latest work, Living Things, can notice a change to Experimental Rock. On this album all participate in choirs and it is the first time that Brad Delson is heard singing in one of his songs (Until it Breaks).
R.I.P. Chester Bennington