Linkin Park

Linkin Park is a popular American rock band. Their debut album Hybrid Theory was released on October 24, 2000, and sold over 15 million copies. Three albums followed over the next decade, including a 2010 release titled A Thousand Suns.

Some of Linkin Park's biggest hits include "One Step Closer," "Crawling," "In the End," "Somewhere I Belong," "Faint," "Numb," "Breaking the Habit" and "Leave Out All the Rest."

In 2010, Linkin Park was named a performer at the MTV Video Music Awards. The 2010 VMAs take place on September 12, 2010, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California. The band will reportedly sing "The Catalyst," the first single from A Thousand Suns. Linkin Park previously performed on the MTV Video Music Awards in 2001 and 2007.http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1646869/20100831/linkin_park.jhtml

Hybrid Style

What sets Linkin Park apart from other bands out there is their use of two lead vocalists. Chester Bennington is known for using growling and screaming vocals, while intertwining them with melodic singing. Mike Shinoda, the group's resident MC, provides all the rap vocals used in their songs. Between the two of them they create a sound that makes them unique and recognizable.

Their trademark sound was featured in their first two albums, Hybrid Theory and Meteora, but since that time, the sounds has evolved and changed. Their third album, Minutes to Midnight, was released on May 15, 2007 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard music charts. In 2009, Linkin Park released a new song "New Divide" which was written for the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen movie. They also contributed to the score for the film.

After the first single, "The Catalyst," from their fourth album, A Thousand Suns, debuted in August 2010, fans had mixed feelings on the evolution. Some were open to the new sound, noting their "creativity and uniqueness, things that some 'great' bands sometimes lack because they are afraid to lose fans," while others disliked the change, saying "I just hate the direction they went with their sound with Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns... [The] new song doesn't even sound like them at all."http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1646665/20100827/linkin_park.jhtml

Studio Albums

2000: Hybrid Theory
2003: Meteora
2007: Minutes to Midnight
2010: A Thousand Suns

Linkin Park: "The Catalyst"

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As the first single released from their 2010 album A Thousand Suns, Linkin Park debuted the official video for "The Catalyst" less than a month before the album hit stores. Fans had mixed feelings towards the change in sound of the band, with some missing the hybrid rock-rap trademark feel of their early work. Others welcomed the change, praising the band for having the courage to evolve and grow.