The song shows off the metal side of Linkin Park, opening with that unmistakable guitar riff. Mike Shinoda fills in all the holes, usually rapping and adding his hip-hop tinge to the Linkin Park sound.Īs stated, One Step Closer led Linkin Park into the mainstream. He also moves to clean vocals, which hold a tune well enough. However, also adding to the accessibility, his screaming still has clarity to it. Chester Bennington brings a bit of angst and anger to the mix with his screaming. Sure, the guitar riffs are simple and somewhat bland, the drum beats never step out as being groundbreaking or incredible, and Phoenix is a god-awful bassist, but altogether the music just sticks in the mind. Once acquiring the album, the catchy guitar riffs mixed with the surprisingly good DJ sampling of Joseph Hahn created an irresistible catchy blend of hip-hop and metal. Unlike most contemporaries of the nu-metal scene, the most offensive words on this album are “Shut up.” With the lack of profanity, kids all around the nation acquired the album with no trouble. My mother attempted to shadow me from as much profanity as possible. What made Linkin Park so great in my mind back then? Well, for one thing, the band is incredibly accessible. Linkin Park broke onto the scene with their lead single One Step Closer. Amazingly, the CD still works albeit a few skips here and there. My CD certainly received its fair share of wear and tear over those years, covered in scratches. Lucky for all you readers, I was one of those preteen rockers.
Mike Shinoda- Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard, Samples The album is the top-selling debut album by a band in the 21st century, going Diamond (or 10 times platinum).
Their breakout LP, Hybrid Theory, skyrocketed off the charts, winning the hearts of preteen rockers nationwide.
The band blurred the lines of rap and rock, taking guitars and mixing them with a DJ and electronic drum beats. Linkin Park decided to come just at the perfect time. Grunge, rap, and boy band pop dominated the airwaves of the 90s and the time had come for something new. While mathematically, the year 2000 was not the new millennium, many considered it to be anyway. Due to the band’s incredible “originality”, the mainstream greets them with unprecedented success and acclaim. Whether the band is truly that original or not depends, but for the most part there were other bands that never made the mainstream that produced the same exact ideas, if not better, than said groundbreaking band. Every once in a while, that band comes along that changes all perceptions of a genre to the mainstream.
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