The precedent is immediately set with 'Foreword,' an intro to the album which finishes with a crashing sound (thought by many to be glass breaking, but it is, in fact, an external compact disc burner on a wooden table being smashed with an aluminum baseball bat). Īlso interesting to note is the almost complete synchronization of every song throughout the album. To date, it has sold 7,000,000 copies in the United States alone, and nearly 16,000,000 copies worldwide. In its first week, it sold an estimated 830,000 units. Like the band's first full-length Hybrid Theory, Meteora was recorded using Pro Tools software.

Linkin Park comprehensively rehearsed the album recording more than forty choruses for the first single 'Somewhere I Belong'. It was this feeling of greatness and awesome accomplishment that Linkin Park wished to convey with their music, thus the name.ĭon Gilmore co-produced the album. After seeing these monasteries on a trip to Europe, the band was inspired by the way they were built, almost defying gravity. Meteora was named after the Meteora rock formation in Greece. Meteora was later certified 7x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on August 15, 2017, and has sold over 27 million copies worldwide as of 2013. Songs from the album were remixed with songs by American rapper Jay-Z for the 2004 MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups EP Collision Course. The song ' Session' was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, but lost to Jeff Beck's ' Plan B'. Meteora received generally positive reviews from critics and critical acclaim from fans upon its release and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and fourteen other international charts it also became the most successful album in the history of the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Linkin Park released singles from Meteora for over a year, including ' Somewhere I Belong', ' Faint', ' Numb', ' From the Inside', and ' Breaking the Habit' ' Lying From You' was also released as a promotional single. Its artwork was assembled by the band with help of various graphic artists, and its title is taken from the Greek Orthodox monasteries of the same name. Produced by the band and Don Gilmore, who produced their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000), the album has a sound similar to the band’s debut and was recorded from April to December 2002 at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California. Don Gilmore Meteora is the second studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on Maby Warner Bros.

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