Linkin Park collection

A diamond record for a debut album: that is the mark left by Hybrid Theory, released in 2000, when Linkin Park became essential! Formed in 1996 in Agoura Hills, California, the band holds together nu metal, hip-hop and electronic music, with Chester Bennington's voice on the front line, Mike Shinoda's rapped verses, Joe Hahn's turntables and Brad Delson's riffs. Crawling and then In the End established the formula, which Numb pushed even further on Meteora in 2003. In 2004, Collision Course sealed the meeting with Jay-Z, on mashups such as the inevitable Numb/Encore. Minutes to Midnight and its single What I've Done then expanded the sound to stadium dimensions in 2007. Chester Bennington's passing in 2017 left an immense void, but the legacy still circulates and lives on in t-shirts, books retracing the band's journey and figures that find their place in collections.