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== Members: ==
* Chester Bennington: lead singer and [[Metal Scream|metal screamer]]. Can play guitar when needed. Has a side project named Dead by Sunrise.
* Mike Shinoda: co-founder, emcee, singer, rapper, pianist, second guitarist, graphic designer, [[Record Producer|producer]], painter, and [http://www.mikeshinoda.com blogger]. Used to playing several instruments during the same song. Has a side project named Fort Minor.
* Brad Delson: co-founder, lead guitarist and [[Funny Afro|lead afro]]. Occasionally plays the keyboard.
* Rob Bourdon: the drummer, but can also play piano when the band is writing new songs.
* Joe "Mr." Hahn: The DJ, synths and samples guy who also directs their music videos. Owns an art shop in Los Angeles called SURU.
* Dave "Phoenix" Farrell: The bassist and backing singer. Nicknamed because another fan thought his name was boring. Also does string arrangements.
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* [[Doomsday Clock]]: ''Minutes to Midnight''
* [[Dress Rehearsal Video]]: About half of their videos.
* [[DVD Commentary]]: The band has a DVD edition for each of their CDs barring ''Hybrid Theory'' (which saw a standalone DVD a year after its release). Footage of them is usually about the music making process, life on tour, music video commentary, and the odd practical joke.
* [[Epic Fail]]/[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In "Figure 0.9" there this lyric
{{quote|"I think of how I shot myself in the back again."}}
* [[Epic Rocking]]: "The Little Things Give You Away" clocks in at six and a half minutes while "Krwling", "1stp Klosr" and "The Catalyst" come close to that.
* [[Fading Into the Next Song]]: The only album that doesn't use this is ''Hybrid Theory''. It was intended to, however; the version of High Voltage cut from the album (and on the One Step Closer single) was supposed to segue in from "Cure for the Itch" as can be heard by the remnants of Itch at the beginning of Voltage. It was probably cut because it had already appeared in a different version on the Hybrid Theory EP.
** Various special editions of Hybrid Theory feature this version of High Voltage as a bonus track, but no attempt was made to restore the original segue.
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* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Really, the whole ''A Thousand Suns'' album, but "Jornada Del Muerto" stands out even in the middle of it. The album is about the threat of nuclear weapons. Jornada Del Muerto was the site of the Trinity test, the world's first atomic explosion. In addition, Mike is singing "Lift me up/Let me go" in Japanese at the beginning of the song. Japan is the only country in the world where nuclear weapons were deployed offensively.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Well, one could make a case about their earlier years, what with being a nu-metal/rap-rock band in a time when those subgenres were on their way out. But let's face it, they're ''really'' following [[U2]]'s [[Genre Roulette|genre-hopping]] and philanthropy.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** "The Requiem", the opening track from ''A Thousand Suns'' is an ambient, brooding version of "The Catalyst", the album's penultimate track, which also features the [[Album Title Drop]]. It also contains the piano track from "Waiting for the End" and the heartbeat-sonar ping combo sound is heard again in the start of "Jornada del Muerto".
** A more subtle version comes in the track "Jornada del Muerto", which features Mike singing "Lift me up, let me go" in Japanese.
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** The song "What I've Done" sounds like a moody downer sound, but it's about facing the consequences of your actions, and finding forgiveness.
** "Bleed it Out" averts this by being actually about writing lyrics, and re-writing them again and again (instead of self-mutilation as many automatically conclude). Bennington and Shinoda vented their lyric writing frustrations by writing more lyrics.<ref> This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the opening line "Here we go [[Oh, No, Not Again|for the hundredth time]]."</ref>
* [[Madness Mantra]]: On multiple songs, most notably ''Given Up'' and ''One Step Closer''. Also have a tendency to have an ending [[Punctuated!
* [[Metal Scream]]:
** '''"THESE WOOOOOUUUUNNNNDDDSSS, THEY WIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL NOT HEEEAAAALLLL"'''
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** '''"GO AWAY, YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUU TRY TO THE BEST OF ME"'''
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: A 5 sounds about right, varying by the individual song.
** To go in depth, their [[Nu-metal]] style songs range from 6-7 where as their more mellow offerings rank about 3-5. Their latest album arguably doesn't even fit on the scale, lacking almost anything rock about it.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: Their music has pretty much always been a mix of rock, hip-hop, and electronica. Which of these ingredients takes prominence depends on the song.
* [[New Sound Album]]: ''All of them'', every single time. ''Minutes to Midnight'' and ''[[Concept Album|A Thousand Suns]]'' are the most noticeable.
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* [[Perishing Alt Rock Voice]]: Whenever Mike's singing.
* [[Piss-Take Rap]]: Chester's vocals in the verses of "Blackout" strongly resemble rapping.
** [[Piss-Take Rap|Piss Take Reggae]]: Mike's toasted vocals in "Waiting for the End", Chester's half screamed-half toasted vocals in "Wretches and Kings".
* [[Polish the Turd]]: According to Mike, this was Rick Rubin's opinion of their songwriting and production process before adopting "automatic writing" for ''A Thousand Suns''.
* [[Pop Star Composer]]: Mike worked with Joe Trapanese, best known for helping [[Daft Punk]] on the score to ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', for the soundtrack to an Indonesian martial-arts film called ''The Raid''.
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** "Hands Held High", "No More Sorrow" and "The Little Things Give You Away".
** ''A Thousand Suns''. It's a concept album dealing with war and nuclear power, as well as human fears of what's going to happen to the world.
* [[Punctuated!
** "Bleed it Out". "I'LL MAKE YOU FACE! THIS! NOW!"
** "Faint". "Don't turn your back on me! I WON'T! BE! IGNORED!"
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