Linkin Park

Released: November 22, 2004

Songwriter: Mike Shinoda Chester Bennington Mr. Hahn

Producer: Mr. Hahn

[Intro: Chester Bennington]
You take, you take
Away, away

[Verse: Mike Shinoda]
Why does it feel like night, today?
Something in here's not right, today
Why does it feel like night, today?
Paranoia's all I got left

[Interlude: Chester Bennington]
You take, you take
Away, away

[Outro: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington]
This is so fun
This whole project is, like, fun
Did that sound good?
That's right

Hybrid Theory isn’t just the title of Linkin Park’s chart-topping debut album, but a career mission statement.

From day one, the same six players (lead vocalist Chester Bennington, drummer/percussionist Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell, DJ/Programmer Joe Hahn, and keyboardist, guitarist, and co-lead vocals Mike Shinoda) built the band by fusing all their favorite styles of music into one unmistakable signature sound. With each album, Linkin Park defiantly challenges themselves and their fans by blasting into new musical territory. After setting the template for rock that incorporated hip-hop influences with Hybrid Theory and Meteora, they shifted gears completely and defied expectations with the polychromatic Minutes to Midnight, and again with the esoteric A Thousand Suns, before melding a piece of them all into 2012’s LIVING THINGS. With their 2014 release and heaviest offering in years, The Hunting Party, Linkin Park manage to capture their ever-innovative spirit with a hunger seldom seen in bands on their seventh album. One More Light (2017) is an interesting personal album, filled with a lot of emotion.

Unfortunately, on July 20, 2017, Chester unexpectedly died by suicide, shocking and saddening both fans and his own band members alike.

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