Meteora (album)

Meteora
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Publication (s)	March 25, 2003
admission	April 2002 – December 2002
Label (s)	Warner Brothers Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Nu Metal , Alternative Metal , Crossover , Alternative Rock
Title (number)	13
running time	36:32
occupation	Chester Bennington : vocals (2–11, 13) Mike Shinoda : rap (3–7, 8, 10, 11), keyboard (2, 4–6, 8–10), guitar (3, 6, 7, 10), sampler , piano (9, 12, 13) , Vocals (2, 6, 10, 13) Brad Delson : guitar (2–11, 13) David Farrell : Bass Rob Bourdon : drums (2–11, 13) Joseph Hahn : DJ
production	Don Gilmore
Studio (s)	NRG Recordings , North Hollywood (USA)
chronology Resuscitation (2002) Meteora Live in Texas (2003)
Single releases March 17, 2003 Somewhere I Belong June 16, 2003 Faint September 15, 2003 Numb January 12, 2004 From the inside March 16, 2004 Lying from you June 7, 2004 Breaking the Habit

Meteora is the second studio album of the American nu-metal - band Linkin Park . It was released on March 25, 2003 on Warner Brothers Records and hardly differs from its predecessor, Hybrid Theory, which was influenced by Nu Metal . The name Meteora comes from the Meteora monasteries (Greek Μετέωρα (n. Pl.)), East of the Pindus Mountains near the city of Kalambaka in Thessaly, Greece.

Emergence

View of the rocks of Meteora over Kastraki, Greece

According to the band, the pieces on Meteora were mainly written in four different locations. In addition to NRG Studios in California and Soundtrack Studios in New York, some tracks were also developed on the tour bus and in Mike Shinoda's house. Most of the songwriting took place in 2002. The intro of the track Somewhere I Belong was revised by Mike Shinoda after singer Chester Bennington created the basis for the track with acoustic guitar playing and divided into four parts and rearranged, as the reversal of the riff (running backwards of the intro is that which gave the song its unique sound) had changed the chord progression. Bennington and Shinoda recorded 30 versions of the chorus for the song, "each time scrapping the previous version in search of something better."

The lyrical idea for Breaking the Habit was over five years old at the time of recording. When Mike Shinoda was working on an interlude , guitarist Brad Delson and DJ Joseph Hahn suggested making an entire song out of the musical interlude. The preliminary title of the song was Drawing , but was expanded by Shinoda when writing lyrics. The intro foreword was recorded after the rest of the album was completed. The final song Numb was written shortly before Linkin Park moved into NRG Studios .

Music genre

Compared to the previous album Hybrid Theory , released three years earlier, Meteora shows more pronounced influences of rapcore ( Lying from You , Hit the Floor , Figure.09 ), hip-hop ( Nobody's listening ) and electronic music ( Breaking the Habit ).

Linkin Park also refrained from using swear words in the lyrics of this album.

Track list

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	62%
More reviews
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Artistdirect
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CDstarts.de

#	title	length	comment
1	Foreword	0:13	Intro
2	Don't stay	3:07
3	Somewhere I Belong	3:33	First single
4th	Lying from you	2:55	Fifth single
5	Hit the floor	2:44
6th	Easier to run	3:24
7th	Faint	2:42	Second single
8th	Figure.09	3:17
9	Breaking the Habit	3:16	Sixth and final single
10	From the inside	2:53	Fourth single
11	Nobody's listening	2:57
12	session	2:23	Instrumental
13	Numb	3:05	Third single

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Meteora   DE 1 04/07/2003 (84 weeks)   AT 1 04/06/2003 (55 weeks)   CH 1 04/06/2003 (61 weeks)   UK 1 04/05/2003 (49 weeks)   US 1 04/12/2003 (118 weeks)

Singles

Somewhere I Belong   DE 12 03/31/2003 (11 weeks)   AT 16 03/30/2003 (14 weeks)   CH 15th 03/30/2003 (14 weeks)   UK 10 03/29/2003 (9 weeks)   US 32 03/15/2003 (20 weeks) Faint   DE 40 06/30/2003 (10 weeks)   AT 27 06/29/2003 (7 weeks)   CH 32 06/29/2003 (8 weeks)   UK 15th 06/21/2003 (8 weeks)   US 48 07/26/2003 (20 weeks) Numb   DE 13 09/29/2003 (24 weeks)   AT 8th 08/04/2017 (3 weeks)   CH 5 05/10/2003 (22 weeks)   UK 14th 09/20/2003 (10 weeks)   US 11 11/08/2003 (33 weeks) From the inside   DE 35 01/26/2004 (7 weeks)   AT 42 02/01/2004 (6 weeks)   CH 38 02/01/2004 (7 weeks) Lying from you   US 58 04/10/2004 (18 weeks) Breaking the Habit   DE 25th 06/21/2004 (10 weeks)   AT 43 06/20/2004 (7 weeks)   CH 56 06/20/2004 (4 weeks)   UK 39 06/19/2004 (2 weeks)   US 20th 07/24/2004 (20 weeks)

Alexander Cordas from laut.de rated the album with three out of a possible five points. Meteora "turned out exactly as you could expect" and shows only very minor deviations from the debut album Hybrid Theory . Most of the pieces sound "too smooth, too hit-oriented," are devoid of "ingenuity" and are referred to as "fast food nu metal". Nevertheless, “the unbelievably fat sound is impressive.” The song Faint is called the “highlight of the album” because it “breaks out of the same mid-tempo quark”.

success

The album made it to number one in the charts in over ten countries, including in German-speaking countries.

Meteora was first awarded the gold and then the platinum record in a number of countries . In Germany, the sound carrier was certified with platinum in the year of publication (2003). In 2019, the four-fold platinum award followed in Germany, the currently last award. In 2003, the album was also awarded the platinum record in Austria and Switzerland . In both countries, the platinum award represents the current certification. Certifications have also taken place in the English-speaking countries. In Canada and the United States of America, Meteora was awarded four times platinum and four times multi-platinum respectively within two years. Furthermore, the sound carrier has been awarded several platinum records in Great Britain and Australia, for example .

With five singles, Meteora holds the record for the most singles from an album that made it to number one on the American Billboard Alternative Songs chart.

Re-use

• The title Session contained on Meteora was used for the soundtrack of the film Matrix Reloaded .
• The title Figure.09 can be heard in the film SWAT - The Special Forces .

Web links

• Album review at laut.de.
• Meteora at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Corresponding CD booklet from Meteora
2. ↑ metacritic.com
3. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
4. ↑ Rating: laut.de
5. ↑ Linkin Park - Meteora. hitparade.ch (German); Retrieved February 17, 2010.
6. ↑ Gold / platinum database. musikindustrie.de (German); accessed on January 22, 2019.
7. ↑ Gold & Platinum . ifpi.at (German); Retrieved February 17, 2010.
8. ↑ Search for: Meteora. hitparade.ch (German); Retrieved February 17, 2010.
9. ↑ Search Results. riaa.com (English); Retrieved February 17, 2010.
10. ↑ Certification Results . cira.com (English); Retrieved February 17, 2010.
11. ↑ Certified Awards Search. bpi.co.uk; Retrieved on
12. ↑ Accreditations - 2003 Albums . aria.com (English); Retrieved February 17, 2010.
13. ↑ T hey Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Soundtracks . imdb.com (English); Retrieved February 17, 2010.