Nu-Metal was actually a worse genre than Rap-Metal (I know, you heard me right) Won't the kids just "dig it"?Īnyway I just wanted to say how glad I am that this style of music is dead. So they're either stupid or some corporate jock's wet dream. Jeez I know the internet is a good way to get your band "out there", but that's absurd. However the domain "" hadĪlready been taken, and to buy it from the owners cost more than the bandĬould afford, so they changed the spelling to Linkin Park.- If you want toĪNOTHER THING! plz post this on your online thing, plz and the reason they picked this spelling? Because it got in the way of their marketing plans? Eventually, they settled on Lincoln Park, suggested byīennington because after band practice he would have to drive past Lincoln Someĭiscarded ideas were Clear, Probing Lagers, Ten PM Stocker and Platinum Issue with a band called Hybrid they were forced to change their name. At first theyĬalled themselves 'Hybrid Theory' after the addition of Bennington (the ideaīeing that they were a hybrid of hard rock and rap), but due to a trademark The group Lincoln Park if the website was'nt already taken.
Reader fist off, the do not "mis-spell" Linkin Park. Men who go by the misspelling "Linkin Park." So this week's entry in the rap-metal marathon is a bunch of humorless, stone-faced You monsters use when trying to drive a genius insane - I'm sticking to my buns on this Statement: Rap-metal is not going to go down in history as a good idea.ĭon't have to call me a blind soothsayer or a fool on wings or any of those other That may offend you, but I'm feeling it deep (spelled backwards is "peed"!) inside andįorce of my will is nearly splitting my body into two halves with discord. I'm about to make a crazy-eyed, controversial statement Paragraph! Hybrid Theory In The End: Live & Rare EP Reanimation Meteora Live In Texas Minutes To Midnight Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes A Thousand Suns
Music called "rap metal," the likes of which have never before been imagined even by the In 2014, the band was declared as the Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now by Kerrang! As the best-selling band of the 21st century and one of the world’s best-selling music artists overall, Linkin Park has sold more than 70 million records worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.A heretofore unheard of and amazingly exciting, wild new form of In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium. Their seventh album One More Light, a more electronic and pop-oriented record, was released on May 19, 2017. Their sixth album, The Hunting Party (2014), returned to a heavier rock sound. Their fifth album, Living Things (2012), combines musical elements from all of their previous records. The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types in their fourth album, A Thousand Suns (2010), layering their music with more electronic sounds. The album topped the Billboard charts and had the third-best debut week of any album that year. Having adapted nu metal and rap metal to a radio-friendly yet densely layered style in Hybrid Theory and Meteora, the band explored other genres on their next studio album, Minutes to Midnight (2007). Their following studio album Meteora continued the band’s success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000), which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-Platinum in several other countries. Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.