My favorite Band - Linkin Park

This one is a tribute to my all time favorite band - Linkin Park.

Linkin Park are the modern guitar-swinging, lyric-dropping scratch wizards to simultaneously glorify the big riff while bowing down at the altar of hip-hop. A tightly controlled montage of hooks, riffs, dodgy rapping, roaring, sweet singing, noisy scratching, ruthlessly edited into classic songs. This nu-metal progressive rock band combines old school hip-hop, traditional classic rock and spooling of electronic vibes and includes MC/vocalist Mike Shinoda, vocalist Chester Bennington, guitarists Brad Delson, Phoenix, DJ Joe Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon.

In the course of a single song they let their guitars run amok, push plodding rhythms and growl like angry dogs roused from sleep - all while dexterously zipping back and forth along record grooves. Their discography includes Hybrid Theory (2000), Reanimation (2002), Meteora (2003), Live in Texas (2003) and Collision Course ft. Jay-Z (2005). My favorites are ‘In the End’, ‘With You’, ‘One Step Closer’ and ‘From the Inside’. I am eagerly awaiting their new album release in May, 2006.

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