Linkin Park's third album, "Minutes To Midnight" shows the maturity of the rock group that brought the musical flow of this nu-metal. Without leaving a characteristic of his music that loud but still 'connect' in the ears, Linkin Park, again strikes the rock music world with his first single "What I've Done" which is the soundtrack of Hollywood movie became a box office success, "The Transformers".The second single, Linkin Park are still trying to hit the fans with loud music with a progressive release of the single "Bleed It Out" on August 20, 2007. However, our ears as if invited to a short break to hear the soft strains of "Shadow of the Day". Strong lyrics about the future expectations of this offering in a slow tempo, but still reflects the typical Linkin Park music. This California band's songs are always tucked in the middle of slow-beat music cadasnya in each album.Minutes To Midnight "is actually planned for release in 2006, but because the front-man Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda feel just finished half the album, release an album finally postponed until 2007. After spending 14 months, finally managed to release the third album on May 15, 2007, under the Warner Bros. label. Records. Only a week after the release of his third album, band member Mike Shinoda (vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, piano), Chester Bennington (lead vocals), Joe Hahn (turntables, programming, samples, beats), Dave Farrell (bass guitar, backing vocals ), Rob Bourdon (drums) and Brad Delson (lead guitar) this album has sold 600,000 copies, and ranked first in the Billboard Charts.
This success is not the first time achieved by Linkin Park. The band whose name is taken from a park called Lincoln Park, this had already scooped up successfully in the first and second albums.he Debut Album: Hybrid TheoryLinkin Park including unique music band. They mix elements of nu-metal and rap rock given a touch of hip-hop, alternative rock and electronica. Their debut album was released on October 24, 2000 and immediately kicked off with his first single, "Crawling" which became a top request at many radio stations and became the song 'compulsory' among rock music lovers. Both singles "One Step Closer" is not less successful, and bring the "Hybrid Theory" dominate many albums chart with sales results and steal the tape as many predicates 4.8juta best-selling album in 2001.Linkin Park had tested the stage with Grammy Award-nominated as many as three categories: best new artist, best rock album and best hard rock performance. Although it does not get a Grammy trophy, Linkin Park was awarded the MTV Award for Best Rock Video and Best Direction (for the video "In The End").
In addition, this album managed to bring Linkin Park received several prestigious awards. MTV Awards, the band was awarded as the Best Rock Video ("Somewhere I Belong") and the Viewer's Choice Award ("Breaking The Habit"). In 2004, for the same album, Linkin Park returned to receive an award as Artist of the Year and Song of the Year at the Radio Music Awards event. "Meteora" came to be The Third Best-Selling Album in 2004.
Linkin Park is a band that is very rarely mutually replace personnel. From the beginning formed in 1996 under the name of the band Xero until now, Linkin Park is only a one-time change of personnel, namely Mark Wakefield, who was replaced on vocals Chester Bennington.