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![]() ![]() Their sophomore album, “Meteora” came out in 2003. Guests included Korn’s Johnathan Davis, Staind’s Aaron Lewis, Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter, Sneaker Pimps’ Kelli Ali, Taproot’s Stephen Richards, and rappers Pharaohe Monch and Black Thought. In 2002, the band released the remix album “Reanimation,” which featured remixed and reworked songs from their debut. It was an eclectic mix of rap & rock, and spawned 4 hit singles “Papercut,” “1 Step Closer,” “Crawling,” and “In The End.” Farrell returned again for the tour that followed. As the band began work on their debut album, Christener left, and Farrell briefly returned before leaving again a few months later. The band then changed their name to Hybrid Theory, then Linkin Park. Wakefield and Farrell both departed 2 years later, replaced by Chester Bennington and Kyle Christener respectively. The band began as Xero in 1996, a post high-school project for rapper Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, and lead guitarist Brad Delson, who soon recruited bassist Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, turntablist Joe Hahn, and lead vocalist Mark Wakefield. Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards. The band's most recent work, the concept album A Thousand Suns, was released on September 8, 2010. ![]() The band has collaborated with several other artists, most notably with rapper Jay-Z in their mashup EP Collision Course, and many others included on Reanimation. The album topped the Billboard charts and had the third best debut week of any album that year. Having adapted the nu metal and rap metal genres to a radio-friendly yet densely layered style in Hybrid Theory and Meteora, the band explored other genres in their next studio album, Minutes to Midnight, which was released in 2007. Billboard ranked Linkin Park #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 behind Oasis and Coldplay. Its 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 around the world. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, 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. ![]()
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