Linkin Park

Songwriter: Mark Wakefield Mike Shinoda

[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
A certified chemist with a bachelor in beats
And break a beaker on your brain
And turn your mind to minced meats
Stethoscope is headphones to the heart of CD’s
Hundred three BPM equals ninety degrees
Celsius, adjust your ventilator to ten (Ten)
Inject the fluid flow into the hearts of men
Through IV’s, in search for a sample of hits
And make the Frankenstein of funk out of musical bits

[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
I’m turning off my head
I’m going through these changes
I want you to be here
I’m turning off my hеad
I’m going through these changes
I want you to bе here

[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]
Laboratories storage from the depths of the debt
Test the positive flatline on the opposition you slept
Crept in through the halls of my ICU
Three hundred CCs of [?] right juice
Injected into the body with a thick syringe
Your whack rhyme binge will be stopped due-

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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