Early formation of Linkin Park is meeting Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson (Linkin Park guitarist) in grade 7. Then they formed a band called Xero. Brad also played for the band Relative Degree, one of the personnel that is Rob Bourdon (drummer for Linkin Park). Mike met Rob through Brad and Rob joined Xero. At college, he became acquainted with Dave "Phoenix" Farrell (Linkin Park's bassist), which is a roommate Brad. Mike, who majored in illustration at the Pasadena Art University, met with Joe Hahn (Linkin Park turntablis). Later, Dave Farrell and Joe Hahn joined Xero. Dave had left the Xero to join back to the old band, Tasty Snax.
Initially, they recruited Mark Wakefield the vocalist, then taken over by Chester Bennington (vocalist former Grey Daze) until now, while Mike and so rapper. Unfortunately, because the name of Xero has used another group, they were forced to change its name to Hybrid Theory. Then after a rejected 3 times, Hybrid Theory successfully received by a company called Warner Bros. recordings. Records after successfully launches Hybrid Theory EP titled EP in 1999 as many as a thousand pieces. However, at that time Mike had a problem with Jeff Blue, manahaernya. Jeff Blue said that Mike did not have to rapping, just play the keyboard alone. This incident inspired Mike to write the song Get Me Gone (Fort Minor)
Once again, they were forced to change the name because a name similar to the name Hybrid Theory Hybrid band originating from Wales. Rather than be the same band, they chose to change the name again became Linkin Park. However, before the name Linkin Park, they had changed his name to 0818. This name also became known in mid 2009, when Brad Delson spoke at the graduation ceremony at UCLA, Los Angeles, mid-2009. Linkin Park Chester The name is taken from the name of a park in Los Angeles, Lincoln Park. In order to manage their own web sites, Chester change the spelling to Linkin Park. After that, they managed to buy a web site LinkinPark.com
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park released his first album, Hybrid Theory, on October 24, 2000 with the first single One Step Closer. However, the more famous is the single Crawling and In the End. This song has made Linkin Park became popular. Album sales exceeding 15 million pieces of it. Linkin Park and then release a special edition from Hybrid Theory, with 2 new song High Voltage (Reprise) and My December (song).
Linkin Park and then re-released the album arrangement of Hybrid Theory, Reanimation. This album also achieved success with sales of approximately 10 million copies. The single, Pts.Of.Athrty, not as popular as singles in Hybrid Theory, but it is quite famous. Linkin Park, by Mike Shinoda and Joseph Hahn, also worked together with the band The X-ecutioners in the manufacture of single It's Goin 'Down. Linkin Park also formed a group called Linkin their fans
Park Underground, and began his own tour called Projekt Revolution, after often invited to music festivals.
Meteora
March 25, 2003, Linkin Park released their second album titled Meteora. The name was taken from a place of worship in the ruins in Greece. This album also achieved success with sales of approximately 11 million copies. Is the single Somewhere I Belong, Faint, Numb, From the Inside, Lying from You, and Breaking the Habit.
Meteora won many awards. Among other MTV Award category "Best Rock Video" for the song "Somewhere I Belong" and "Audience Choice Award" (Breaking The Habit). Linkin Park also won another award that is "Radio Music Awards 2004", "Artist of the Year Award" and "Song of the Year Award" by the song "Numb". How-ever album was not as successful as Hybrid Theory Meteora album sales this make 3 great albums in the United States in 2003.
Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution Tour also held the 2nd and busy part concert. On the sidelines of the time, Linkin Park successfully completed recording their live album, "Live In Texas", which contains the songs at concerts in Texas Linkin Park.
Side Project
At the request of MTV, Linkin Park collaborated with Jay Z on the album "Collision Course". The material of this album is a remix of some Linkin Park songs in the album "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora" and Jay-Z's songs in the album "Blueprint" and "The Black Album". The album was released in 2004 and produced 2 singles, namely Numb / Encore which received a Grammy award category "Best Rap Song" and "Best Collaboration".
In 2005, Linkin Park more major charity concert. They help victims of the tsunami in December 2004 in a concert titled Music For Relief. Linkin Park also helped raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2004. Meanwhile, Mike Shinoda joined with Fort Minor on the album "The Rising Tied". Chester Bennington also had a solo project called Snow White Tan which then popularly known as Dead By Sunrise.
On October 13, 2009, Dead By Sunrise launched her first album, entitled Out Of Ashes. But before they launch the album, their first release a single, namely Crawl Back In.
Linkin Park and Life Inc. Artifical. also plans to release a game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Linkin Park: 8-Bit Rebellion, in January 2010.
Minutes to Midnight
In 2006, they began recording material for Linkin Park's latest album, namely "Minutes To Midnight". Many who criticize Linkin Park because it is often delayed its release. However, Linkin Park ensures that the album on May 14, 2007 is appropriate for their collection. According to Linkin Park, they named her new album "Minutes To Midnight" (the minutes toward the middle of the night) because of the nuclear issue on this earth that can destroy the world at midnight.
A total of 100 songs demo has been created but only 12 are included in the album. No wonder this album was recorded during 14 months. In the album Minutes To Midnight, elements of nu metal music is less viscous. Nevertheless, this album is still popular. The proof is the album sold nearly as many as 625 thousand copies in its first week (a record in the year 2007). This third studio album produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, the former personnel Beastie Boys. His first singles, "What I've Done", has started playing on the radio on April 2, 2007. Minutes To Midnight also occupy the top Billboard. On August 20, 2007, Linkin Park released their second single, namely "Bleed It Out". And, in October, Linkin Park released the single "Shadow of the Day". Then followed by Given Up (March 2008), and the last single from "Minutes To Midnight," Leave Out All The Rest (July 2008).
The song "No Roads Left" can be obtained by booking through iTunes. While the song "Qwerty" can be found in EP entitled Linkin Park Underground v6.0.
They also released the song "New Divide" that is used for the soundtrack of the latest movie Transformers Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.Lagu It also has reached position 6 in the United States, in the UK reached the position 20, and received an award in the category "Best Song of Scream the Year "on Spike TV.
Fourth Studio Album
Lately, some say that Linkin Park has been "dead". They are not. They're even working on their fourth studio album. Again, the producer Rick Rubin. Until November 2009, they were focused on 5 songs, after previously there were 60 song demo, and then filtered into 20. Duration would be longer than the Linkin Park songs in general (about 4-5 minutes). And, for the future, after the fourth album was released, Linkin Park promised to try out his new album sooner.
