Linkin Park

California's Linkin Park bring their dual loves -- hip-hop and metal -- to the table for a finely produced orgy of well-organized noise. Heavy, tautly constructed and infused with rap/rock dualism, this album received three Grammy nominations in 2002. Linkin Park walked away with Best Hard Rock Performance for the single "Crawling."

A rap-rock outfit with a jones for Depeche Mode? Is this a glitch in the matrix? Linkin Park's
debut album, Hybrid Theory, is a freaky-deaky fusion that works in spots -- on "Crawling,"
MC Mike Shinoda's catchy rhymed refrains bounce off singer Chester Bennington's New
Wave croon, proving that synth-pop can get with the hip-hop. This Southern California
five-piece knows its way around a hook: Crashing, loud-soft dynamics run throu... More >

The men don't know what the angry boys understand ("Points of Authority," "Papercut") (Grade - **)