Beginning with the name of the band Xero with Mike Shinoda personnel, Brad Delson (Linkin Park guitarist), Dave "Phoenix" Farrell (Linkin Park's bassist), Joe Hahn (Linkin Park turntablis), and recruited Mark Wakefield the vocalist, then taken over by Chester Bennington (former vocalist Grey Daze) until now, while Mike and so rapper.
Unfortunately, because the name of Xero has used another group, they were forced to change its name to Hybrid Theory. Then, after being rejected three times, Hybrid Theory successfully received by a company called Warner Bros. recordings. Records after successfully launches Hybrid Theory EP titled EP in 1999 as many as a thousand pieces. However, at that time Mike had a problem with Jeff Blue, manager. Jeff Blue goes without saying that Mike is not rapping, just play the keyboard alone. This incident inspired Mike to write the song Get Me Gone (Fort Minor).
Once again, they were forced to change the name because a name similar to the name Hybrid Theory Hybrid music group originating from Wales. Rather than be the same band, they chose the name changed again to Linkin Park. However, before called Linkin Park, they had changed his name to 0818. Linkin Park Chester The name is taken from the name of a park in Los Angeles, Lincoln Park. To be able to manage their own web site, Chester change the spelling to Linkin Park. After that, they managed to buy a web site www.linkinpark.com, and successfully spawned his first album Hybrid Theory, on October 24, 2000 and their second album titled Meteora and their third album "Minutes To Midnight" and A Thousand Suns. Linkin Park also released the album Live in Texas, Reanimation and Collision Course, and Hybrid Theory EP. Linkin Park's success in popularizing songs like Crawling, In the End, Numb, Somewhere I Belong, and What I've Done. In total, Linkin Park's albums have sold over 50 million copies.