Linkin Park is a rock band from Agoura Hills, California. They achieved mainstream success in 2000 with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which has since sold fifteen million copies.  The band’s following studio album, Meteora also garnered success, topping the Billboard 200’s album charts in 2003.  The band’s latest album, Minutes to Midnight, is slated to be released internationally on May 14, 2007 and on May 15, 2007 in the United States. 

On March 6, 2007, Warner Brothers announced that Linkin Park’s third album (not including the Remix albums Reanimation and Collision Course or the live album Live In Texas), titled Minutes to Midnight, would be released Monday May 14 in all countries except the United States, which would receive the album on Tuesday May 15. The first single was released April 2, and is titled “What I've Done”.  “We have put more into the new album than anything we have ever done before”, says bassist Dave “Phoenix“ Farrell. The band spent over 14 months in the studio and wrote more than 101 song demos in the making of Minutes to Midnight, an album which vocalist Mike Shinoda sees as, “a breakthrough in the development of the band's sound”.  "This was a year-and-a-half long process of really hard work and experimentation in the studio that yielded about 150 rough songs", guitarist Brad Delson told Billboard.com. The band recorded 17 tracks and is now whittling down which ones will make the final cut. “Not only is this album incredibly diverse, but the depth of the material is really strong”, Delson says.  The title is a reference to the Doomsday Clock,  and lead singer Chester Bennington said that the band is writing about "things they wouldn't have touched a few years back."  Mike Shinoda explained that Minutes to Midnight is composed of sounds made by a practically Arcade Fire-esque array of instruments including banjos, marimbas and vintage guitars and amps. “People have always tried to lump us in with the whole rap/rock stereotype, but we don’t intentionally want to be part of that scene. We’ve always had our own personality and I think it really shows on this record.”    See Linkin Park LIVE!  Purchase your Linkin Park tickets today!