Claude says:Linkin Park's diamond-certified debut dropped in October 2000 through Warner Bros., recorded at NRG in North Hollywood with producer Don Gilmore. The lyrical themes came from Chester Bennington's adolescence — drug abuse, his parents' divorce — and the album's four singles ("One Step Closer," "Crawling," "Papercut," "In the End") turned a struggling band into the biggest rock act of the early 2000s, moving 24 million copies worldwide. You were there at the beginning in 2006, then kept circling back every few years — a spike in 2012, another in 2018, and then a long stretch from 2023 forward where "In the End" and "Papercut" clearly haven't lost their grip.