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 Influences: U2, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Metallica, Korn, (həd) p.e., Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Aphex Twin, Deftones, Helmet, System of a Down, Depeche Mode, Led Zeppelin, Stone Temple Pilots, The Prodigy, Radiohead, The Roots, Run–D.M.C., tool, 311, The BeatlesRelated Acts: Fort Minor (Shinoda) Dead by Sunrise (Bennington) Grey Daze (Bennington) Stone Temple Pilots (Bennington) Tasty Snax (Phoenix)Linkin Park is a rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Since their formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards.The band was originated by members Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon and Brad Delson, all high school friends. After graduating, the three then recruited the other current members of the band with the exception of their lead vocalist, who was originally Mark Wakefield. Wakefield eventually left in the wake of tension among the band from their lack of success; Chester Bennington was chosen as his replacement, and his vocal chemistry with Shinoda revitalized the band.The band's name upon formation was Xero, but it was changed to Hybrid Theory after Bennington joined. Upon signing with Warner Bros. Records in 1999, the label advised them to change their name to avoid confusion with the British electronic group Hybrid. The inspiration for the name they switched to, the one you know today, was Santa Monica's Lincoln Parknote now called Christine Emerson Reed Park; while they originally wanted to use the park's name as was, they tweaked the spelling to secure the domain "linkinpark.com".Linkin Park achieved mainstream success come the Turn of the Millennium as one of the most popular bands in Nu Metal, with their debut album Hybrid Theory and its follow-up Meteora receiving some of the biggest success the genre has ever seen. Nearing the end of the decade, as the genre started falling out of public favor, the band shifted sights to an Alternative Rock sound with electronic influences from Minutes to Midnight onward (though they did return to their metal roots with 2014's The Hunting Party). Their fanbase was continuously split as a result of this, but it never deterred the band from continuing to do what they wanted with their music, leading to reactions that were more predictable in their hysteria than whatever the band chose to put out next.While their music has been featured in dozens of films, shows and video games, Linkin Park has a particularly strong association with the Transformers series. In addition to providing singles for the first three movies and the video game Rise of the Dark Sparknote "What I've Done" for the first film, "New Divide" for Revenge of the Fallen, "Iridescent" for Dark of the Moon, and "Until It's Gone" for the game, they collaborated with Steve Jablonsky and Hans Zimmer on the score for Revenge of the Fallen. They are also a popular music source for anime music videos, inevitably featuring shonen series like Dragon Ball Z (and occasionally not-so-shonen series, namely Neon Genesis Evangelion).While they were immensely popular, a sizable group grew that wasn't keen on all the screaming and sadness, leading to the common stereotype and endless amount of memes regarding Linkin Park being the band du jour of "whiny, angsty teenagers with no good reason to be" the world over.Or, at least, they were.On July 20, 2017, Chester Bennington died from suicide shortly before the band was to start the North American leg of the tour promoting their then-latest album One More Light, leading to the tour being cancelled. The remaining members of Linkin Park did their first performance without him at a tribute concert for him on October 27, with guest performances and guest vocals from members of Yellowcard, blink-182, One Ok Rock, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down, Echosmith, Bush, No Doubt, A Day to Remember, Bring Me the Horizon and Sum 41, as well as Kiiara, Julia Michaels, Zedd, Alanis Morissette, Machine Gun Kelly, Steve Aoki, Bebe Rexha... and, of course, the fans.By Mike Shinoda's own confession, he has intentions on continuing with Linkin Park, though he also noted that it will take time. He has leaned into solo music in the interim, with an EP-turned-albumnote Originally released as a 3-song EP in January 2018, with those 3 songs then becoming the first 3 of an equivalently named album in June of that year named Post Traumatic and several instrumental hip hop albums under his belt thus far. According to him, he released Post Traumatic, his first main solo project, under his own name because of the personal subject matter of the album, since it dealt with his grief and coping with the death of Chester.In April 2020, Dave Farrell confirmed that the band had reunited and were working on new music; however, in 2022, Mike stated that they are not in fact working on anything and are still on hiatus. That said, whether they will find a new member or stay the way they are now is still unknown.
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