Linkin Park has returned to the scene with their third major label album (second original album), Meteora. This album has everything one has come to expect from this “Nu-Metal” band from heavy drop-tuned guitars to piercing vocals and angry lyrics. In an age when the genre of rap-metal is disappearing as quickly as it emerged, Linkin Park has refreshed our dulled memory with a sound very similar to that of their debut release, Hybrid Theory. Now, when Linkin Park first came onto the scene in 2000 their style of heavy guitar riffs combined with emceeing was still fairly new continue...

Linkin Park: they invented the remix! Well, not exactly -- these gazillion-selling L.A. hoodie rockers didn't invent the idea of a rap-metal band dabbling in hip-hop remixes any more than Puffy invented marketing, Martha Stewart invented insider trading or Shakira invented the midriff. But Linkin Park's remix album is something new, just because they're the biggest band ever to try this shit, with the best-selling album of 2001, Hybrid Theory, still riding high on the charts and the radio. Nobody ever accused them of having the most original sound around, but continue...

Unless you've been under a rock the last year, you'll know the boys that are Linkin Park. These fortunate five may not have changed the music scene (nu-metal was coined well before they came along), but they have made a fierce imprint.

With "Papercut", "Crawling" and "In the End" hitting the top of the music charts with the determination of a geyser, it is clear that the 13th generation has found a sound they like. Again and continue...