Home News Metal Hammer (Image credit: Mick Hutson / Getty Images) Linkin Parkâs debut album, Hybrid Theory, is the best-selling rock album of the 21st century, so you can understand why the Los Angeles band might be pulling out all the stops to mark its 20th bandâs forthcoming Super Deluxe box set edition of Hybrid Theory, set for release on October 9 via Warners, features five CDs containing the original album, the Reanimation remix album, B-Side Rarities containing 12 tracks from the album era, LPU Rarities with 18 tracks that were only previously available through the Linkin Park Underground fan club, and Forgotten Demos which will bring together 12 previously unreleased Californian band have now released one of those demo tracks, an early version of In The End, as a taster of what to expect from the box set. While Chester Benningtonâs soaring chorus vocal is already in place on the demo, Mike Shinodaâs lyrics on the verses are noticeably different to those which appeared on the final version of the 2016, Chester Bennington told Metal Hammer that the vocals for Hybrid Theory were recorded at the very end of the bandâs âintenseâ studio sessions with producer Don Gilmore at North Hollywoodâs NRG Recording.âWe would rewrite lyrics, like, 75 times,â Bennington revealed. âIt was crazy. But because we didnât take the short cuts, it ended up meaning more. We believed in what we were doing so much, and we were like, âFuck, why canât anybody else see this?â But when the album came out, I guess they saw itâŠâSpeaking to Matt Pinfield in an online press conference on September 29, Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson revealed that hearing Chester Benningtonâs voice for the first time, on a demo of LP rarity Pictureboard, almost made him cry with joy. âI think Pictureboard was the first thing I heard Chesterâs voice on,â the guitarist recalled. âI remember getting that, and being like, âHey, what do you think of this guy? He just sent us this recordingâŠâ and being like, not crying with joy, but like, almost crying, just like, Wow! I donât even know what that is. Heâs tiny and vulnerable on the verse and you could hear all these timbres and harmonics, like overtones, in his voice on the heavy part. It just blew my hat off my head, and weâre like, âWe gotta meet this guy!ââThe Hybrid Theory 20th Anniversary Edition will be released on a variety of formats on October 9, including Super Deluxe Box Set, Vinyl Box Set, Deluxe CD, and on digital and streaming platforms. Founded in 1983, Metal Hammer is the global home of all things heavy. We have breaking news, exclusive interviews with the biggest bands and names in metal, rock, hardcore, grunge and beyond, expert reviews of the lastest releases and unrivalled insider access to metal's most exciting new scenes and movements. No matter what you're into â be it heavy metal, punk, hardcore, grunge, alternative, goth, industrial, djent or the stuff so bizarre it defies classification â you'll find it all here, backed by the best writers in our game.
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Home Features Metal Hammer âAt the time of you asked somebody what they were listening to theyâd say, âRock. I listen to hip hop. I listen to jazzâ. It wasnât until five years later theyâd say, âEverythingâ.Mike Shinoda is considering the legacy of Linkin Parkâs debut album, Hybrid Theory. âIt did some of that work,â says the bandâs rapper and songwriter proudly of that 20-million selling juggernaut. âIt was part of the progression towards breaking down boundaries between styles of music.âThese days, genre-hopping is standard practice for the average band. But when Linkin Park dropped the album on 24 October 2000, their sound was genuinely fresh and innovative, blending neck snapping metal, sharp rap, electronics and bouncing pop choruses into an unabashed commercial proposition that captured both the zeitgeist and the future. âWe chose [Good Charlotte producer] Don Gilmore to produce because he had proven through his recent releases in the last couple of years at that time that he could make a really polished-sounding alternative record,â says Bennington: The Voice Of A Generation (opens in new tab)Metal was too white until nu metal came along, says Linkin Parkâs Mike Shinoda (opens in new tab)The Top 20 best metal albums of 2000 (opens in new tab)10 best songs by the 10 worst nu metal bands (opens in new tab)You donât have to look far to see that influence alive and kicking in the music of some of our sceneâs biggest bands, from Bring Me The Horizon to Architects. Linkin Parkâs take on metal and melody is still being used as a baseline today and thereâs no song in the bandâs back catalogue that does a better job of ticking all those boxes than Hybrid Theoryâs anthemic fourth single, In The to Mike, the song was written in a âreally horrible rehearsal space in West Hollywoodâ that the band had rented out on the junction of Hollywood and Vine. âToday thereâs fancy restaurants there, but back then it was prostitutes and drug dealers,â he says. Having hit a groove one day, Mike decided to lock himself in the windowless room alone overnight and continue writing. By the following morning, heâd come out with In The End and when he played it for the rest of the band, they were blown away. âFrom the moment that demo arrived, everyone knew it was special,â he says.(Image credit: James Minchin III)The song was a far cry from the rest of nu metalâs fratboy posturing. In sharp contrast the likes of Limp Bizkit â who lived out every hedonistic heavy metal clichĂ©, including a release party for their third album Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water at the Playboy mansion â Linkin Park sang about anger, anxiety and depression. Vocalist Chester Bennington, who had joined the band in 1999 after auditioning via demo tape, was blessed with the kind of voice that could segue from angelic cleans to glass-gargled scream in the blink of an eye, but he also brought with him a childhood of trauma, having experienced abuse and bullying in his youth. The band channelled that pain and buckets of teenage angst into their songwriting.âWe didnât want to write about, âPunch you in the face and Iâm so madâ,â says Mike. âA lot of that stuff was in the ether, but we counterbalanced it with introspection and other stuff about ourselves.âBy the time the band released the single at the tail end of December 2001, Hybrid Theory had already sold five million copies and Linkin Park were one of the biggest bands in the world. Their previous singles, One Step Closer, Crawling and Europe-only single Papercut, had proved instant hits with angsty teenagers who were being turned onto heavy music, but In The End, was the gamechanger that would make the band truly with a sparse and sombre piano riff, Mikeâs rapped verses were born from a frustration and self-loathing (âOne thing I donât know why/ it doesnât even matter how hard you tryâ), but it was Chesterâs soaring chorus, a sucker punch of cathartic futility, that tapped into the emotional confusion of youth and connected music fans across the board. âI tried so hard and got so far / But in the end, it doesnât even matter.â"Thereâs a weird battle with hopelessness and the ephemeral nature of time and our lives that the song is really about,â Mike told Rock Sound in 2020. âWhatâs so odd about the song is its almost talking about these things and saying âI donât have any answersâ. Because usually a song isnât about having no answers right? It just kind of runs itself around in a circle lyrically. And especially as a young person thatâs just how I felt, thatâs how we all felt, we just didnât know what to make of things. In a sense thatâs still what goes on today, itâs a timeless and universal thing."They knew they had a hit on their hands, but at the same time, the band worried that the track was too much of a departure from their heavier material, leaving it out of their earlier live sets for fear it was too accessible. In particular, Chester publicly voiced his misgivings.âHe was such an entertainer, in an interview he might say something that he felt would get a good reaction out of you,â laughs Mike. âYouâll hear him say everything from, âI like the song but I never wanted it to be a singleâ, to âI hated the songâ. Heâs on record with all those different things. Everyone liked the song but he had reservations about it being a single because it was softer.âThe rest of the band and their label, Warner Music, were more confident. âWe moved about singles to converge,â explains Mike. âWe did One Step Closer and Crawling worldwide, then we added Papercut just in Europe, so we could time it out and we could do In The End as one push at the end of the record.ââWhen weâd play In The End live, when we got to the bridge, it was always so loud that you couldnât hear the band play,â guitarist Brad Delson told Kerrang! in 2020. âNaturally, at some point, we just stopped playing at that moment. Chester and Mike would just hold out the microphones and turn the lights on.âEven now, In The End continues to resonate. In July this year, it passed one billion streams on YouTube, the bandâs second track to do so following, Numb, and is now quite rightly viewed as a classic. Even Chester grew to appreciate the song, commenting to Australian website, Vmusic in 2013, âI don't really participate in picking singles. I learnt that after making Hybrid Theory. I was never a fan of In The End, and I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?â IN THE END von LINKIN PARK AUF DEUTSCH / GERMAN VERSION of IN THE END by LINKIN PARKVOYCE ABONNIEREN: https://goo.gl/Ap4Q1QZweitkanal abonnieren: https://bit