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Linkin Park

No other nu-metal band of the rap/rock generation has garnered as much attention and success as southern Cali's Linkin Park, who actually started out in 1996 as the heavy metal outfit Xero. Featuring high school pals Brad Delson (guitar), Mike Shinoda (vocals), Rob Bourdon (drums), and Darren "Phoenix" Farrell (bass), the group's lineup was later completed by a DJ, Joseph Hahn (whom Shinoda met at a Pasadena art school), and a second vocalist, Chester Bennington.

Due to legal reasons, Xero were forced to switch their name to Hybrid Theory, then finally to Linkin Park (a deliberate misspelling of the Santa Monica, California landmark Lincoln Park, thought up by Bennington). Under their new name, Linkin Park soon earned a reputation in L.A.'s local scene, becoming a...
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