“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams

Chester Bennington.

If you were of the generation that came of age during mainstream rock’s awkward nu-metal phase, you’ve likely scrubbed the worst of that era from your mind. But, as with all of popular music’s stylistic ebbs and flows, there are always those diamonds in the rough. One such being being the immense Hybrid Theory - the globally successful debut of Linkin Park.

A sledgehammer of an opening statement, Hybrid Theory bristled with a righteous anger yet was imbued with a sense of musical experimentalism that left the band’s contemporaries looking hollow in comparison.