Linkin Park
Linkin Park is a six-piece Californian nu metal band like Korn, Skid Row, Limp Bizkit, Staind and Orgy.The band saw its beginnings in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda's small bedroom studio, where he and Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Delson shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. The final piece of the puzzle was singer Chester Bennington, a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when he was 16. "When I was two, I used to run around singing Foreigner songs--there's tapes of me doing that...Since I learned how to talk I've been telling everybody I was gonna grow up to be a singer." laughs Bennington.
After being signed to Warner Brothers in 1999 their first album, Hybrid Theory, was released in 2000. It was the top-selling album in the United States and New Zealand in 2001, with the hit singles "One Step Closer" and "In the End". The album is notable for its absence of profanity, in contrast to many other nu metal bands' songs.
Linkin Park were part of the Ozzfest in 2001, touring along side
Linkin Park have created their own tour - Projekt: Revolution, and on it have toured with Cyprus Hill, Adema, DJ Z-Trip Xzibit, Mudvayne and Blindside.
In 2003 Linkin Park joined forces with fellow nu-metal band Limp Bizkit and Metallica for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003.
Linkin Park has released the name of it's upcoming record, Live in Texas, a live album containing tracks from Hybrid Theory and Meteora.
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