![]() “We didn’t want to write about, ‘Punch you in the face and I’m so mad’,” says Mike. The band channelled that pain and buckets of teenage angst into their songwriting. 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. ![]() ![]() In sharp contrast the likes of Limp Bizkit – who lived out every hedonistic heavy metal cliché, including a release party for their third album Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water at the Playboy mansion – Linkin Park sang about anger, anxiety and depression. The song was a far cry from the rest of nu metal’s fratboy posturing. ![]()
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