Kerrang! – July 12, 2019

meteora

strike

A shower of

LP2 factoids

■ Meteorais the first

Linkin Park album to

feature Dave Farrell

on bass.

■ Itis the most

successful album

in the history

of Alternative

Songs chart.

■ Chesterwent on the

record to call Breaking

The Habit his favourite

Linkin Park song. “It’s

the only song where

I’ve actually had to

pull my shit together

to record it – the lyrics

hit me on such a deep

level.” This despite the

fact that the lyrics were

written by Mike.

■ The working title

for Breaking The

Habit was Drawing;

it started life as a

musical interlude that

Mike extended after

being encouraged by

Brad and Joe.

■ The animated section

in Breaking The Habit’s

video was by the same

people that created

the animated

section of Quentin

Tarantino’s Kill Bill.

Chester and someone

called Jay-Z. Whatever

happened to him?

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