Head Lice Front Line France

The Linkin Park is a nu metal band, formed in 1996 in Agoura Hills (California).

are regarded as the most commercially successful exponents of their genre, already launched by other bands such as Korn, Deftones and Limp Bizkit in the late nineties. They have sold over 35 million albums, of which almost half in the U.S. alone.

Early

In 1996, the rapper and MC Mike Shinoda and guitarist Brad Delson they graduated to the Agoura High School together, with friend and drummer Rob Bourdon formed "SuperXero. Previously, Delson and Bourdon had played for a year in the Relative Degree. The first was also a member of The Pricks.

SuperXero Shortly after they began to play their music forms sketched. After high school Delson attended the University of California, while Shinoda went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Delson university became friends with the bassist Dave Farrell. The two were roommates and played together often. Farrell was part of the Tasty Snax - then "The Snax" - along with Mark Fiore, the future editor of Linkin Park videography. Art Center College of Design, Shinoda met Joseph Hahn.

Farrell and Hahn later entered into SuperXero, whose name was later shortened to "Xero". They then joined their first lead vocalist Mark Wakefield. Together they recorded a demo in 1997 eponymous with the songs "Fuse", "Reading My Eyes," "Rhinestone" and "Stick N 'Move", but it was not highly regarded by the record companies, and will not signed any contract. Wakefield left the band in 1998 and became manager of Taproot.

Shinoda opened the hearings to seek a replacement. Meanwhile Delson for his studies of communication contacts a representative of Warner Bros. Records, Jeff Blue. The manager advised the two to take Chester Bennington, from Phoenix and already with Grey Daze from 1993 to 1997. The two Xero sent to Bennington a tape with the basics of the instrumental group, and the singer recorded his vocals there. Then he phoned Shinoda and tried the song on the phone. The rapper appreciated its execution and so Bennington joined the band.

Xero At that point they turned in search of a contract. In the meantime changed their name to Hybrid Theory because Xero was already an old moniker of the Australian group, active in the seventies and eighties. After Farrell had left them to dedicate themselves again to Snax, Delson named as his temporary replacement bassist Kyle Christener. Just released in 1999 Hybrid Theory EP , of \u200b\u200bwhich only 1,000 copies were printed. At that time he came down to Scott Koziol, appeared in the video for "One Step Closer."

Thanks to Jeff Blue, and their first EP, Hybrid Theory's signed to Warner. However they were again forced to change its name, for copyright issues with the British electropop band Hybrid. At first they were undecided between Clear, Probing Lagers and Ten PM Stocker (the latter referred to the fact that the band was used to record the material after 10 pm).

Eventually Bennington suggested the moniker Lincoln Park, an area of \u200b\u200bSanta Monica (now Christine Reed Park) where she spent in the car during the recording of the first album. The singer thought there were many "Lincoln Park" in the U.S. and therefore became wherever they played, for their future fans, a local group. For a few months they used the name Lincoln Park, and then, when they decided to record your own Internet domain, found that "lincolnpark.com" already existed. Because they could not afford to buy it, or shorten the spelling from "Lincoln" to "Linkin" and purchased the domain so "Linkinpark.com.

Current

• Chester Bennington - vocals
• Mike Shinoda - vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Brad Delson - guitar
• Dave "Phoenix" Farrell - bass
• Rob Bourdon - drums
• Joseph Hahn - turntables, keyboards

studio album

• 2000 - Hybrid Theory
• 2003 - Meteora
• 2007 - Minutes to Midnight