“It’s been an incredibly intense year – even my closest friends didn’t know what we were doing. I can’t believe we were able to keep it a secret”: Brad Delson on Linkin Park’s miraculous comeback, why he quit touring, and how he trained his replacement

Brad Delson.

Classic Linkin Park albums Hybrid Theory (2000), Meteora (2003) and Minutes to Midnight (2007) prove that Brad Delson was born to crush skulls.

“Since I was 12, if I went on a trip I had to bring my guitar with me, because I had to obsess,” he says. “I’d play for hours every single day.”