Product Description

Four years after the monumental success of Linkin Park's second album 'Meteora', the California based Nu-Metallers return with their third studio album. Recorded over fourteen months at The Mansion in Los Angeles and produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, the album takes a more melodic and progressive direction than its predecessors, with the band utilising new instruments and recording techniques. Includes the single 'What I've Done.'

Track Listing

1. Wake
2. Given Up
3. Leave Out All The Rest
4. Bleed It Out
5. Shadow Of The Day
6. What I've Done
7. Hands Held High
8. No More Sorrow
9. Valentine's Day
10. In Between
11. In Pieces
12. The Little Things Give You Away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
Minutes to Midnight stands to defend Linkin Park's status as the hardest-rockin' softies in mainstream music. Like its predecessors Hybrid Theory (2000) and Meteroa (2003), Minutes to Midnight flexes plenty of decibel-heavy muscle ("Given Up," "Bleed It Out," "No More Sorrow") and made-to-order, melodic radio fare ("Leave out All the Rest," "Shadow of the Day," "In Pieces"). But for all its volume, Linkin Park likes to paint its heart openly on its sleeve with suspicious sonic drama, as in the palpably saccharine "Valentine's Day." Fortunately, co-producer Rick Rubin brings all these elements to pinnacle effect with the surprise "Hands Held High." On past efforts, the combination of breezy keyboard, arpeggiated guitar, choral vocals, and a military snare-beat would yield another slab of smarm, here MC Mike Shinoda drops the two best verses of his career, blending vocal styles with singer Chester Bennington for a moving piece that's as welcome a repertorial addition as Linkin Park is ever likely to muster. --Jason Kirk

Customer Reviews

Not as bad as expected!!
This is not even close to being a 4 or 5 star album. Bands clearly have to evolve and usually when this is done correctly for every fan they lose they will gain 5 more, however Linkin Park have unfortunately evolved into overalll nothingness, the distinct lack of heaviness makes this record a bit of a chore to listen to. There are moments of promise dotted around the album but on the whole very little actually grabs you and forces you to keep playing it over and over.

The only really promising songs are the main single What Ive Done and Given Up, but once again despite the attempts to evolve it is very similar to the first track of Meteora though i must admit the simple but catchy guitar riff is a winner. On the subject of the guitars though it does sounds very synthetic and digitally enhanced and any reallyt gutsy playing is well and truly lost, Brad Delson by all reports is in any other surroundings a throughly decent guitar player with a wealthy knowledge of theory, however in Linkin Park he sounds like a typical teenager who has learnt that he can detune his guitar and play with one finger. But on the whole this is his best contribution to any of the Linkin Park albums.

The singing on the whole is losing its way too, it sounds very naisely and does begin to grate quite quickly but i am really starting to slag this album off in a way that paints the wrong picture. This is by no means the worst album i have ever heard.... far from it, the reason this album is receiving such a wide range of reviews is because it IS Linkin Park and as such we expect better. Should this have been done by another band then the reviews might well have been more favourable.

Not a classic but worthy of a listen, just dont expect anything of the magnitude of One Step Closer!!!!

6/10

Proving MORE than their worth!!
I loved LP and got this album knowing all the mixed reviews it had. Overall it's not as agressive as Meteora or Hybrid Theory tho there are a few songs that are still signature of the old LP. The new tracks hit out at something more and so extraordinary it really does break the mould from other commercialized bands who would just churn out the same old sounds. I loved it coz it's an experimental album and a unique piece that stands as high as their others.

Dissapointing
I could have given this album an even lower score because i find it annoying in most cases and from LP it is pitiful.

but having sed tht there are good tracks on here and it is listenable. but for me, the only way i can listen to it is to forget that it's linkin park and just listen to it normally but even doing that i still don't particullarly like it.

basically, if you hav heard a few of linkin parks songs but mainly the newer ones like numb and hit the floor the newer ones then get meteora, if you like proper nu-metal then get hybrid theory, the only reason to get this album is if you like the pop-rock style of the music or you just want to complete a collection of linkin park albums. (i don't have anything against you getting this, but just don't call yourself a "fan" of linkin park if this is the only one you like cos this isn't Linkin Park)

if you want proper Linkin Park then don't get this!!!!