The political themes of the Doomsday Clock, environmentalism, The War on Terror, and social unrest helped transition the band members into a more mature phase in their development. "Given Up" and "Bleed It Out" served as the heavier singles, while "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day", and "What I've Done" helped expand the band's appeal into mainstream Alternative Rock. The album became a massive hit, even though it undersold its predecessors.
Lighter and Softer tunes dominate the album, vocalist Mike Shinoda began to embrace singing and harmonizing over traditional rapping, and famous record producer Rick Rubin encouraged the change in musical direction by introducing new styles in Arena Rock. This album marked an unusual change in the band's repertoire in many ways, spurred on by the band members' desire to experiment in the studio. You know, it's all boarded up, there's cat piss everywhere and it's just perfect! Here it is, this is where they'll be.' And I looked at it, and I went, 'I used to live there.Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by Linkin Park, released in 2007. "The guy goes, 'Oh it's this fantastic, dingy, grotty flat in this horrible, slimy East End tenement on the Isle of Dogs.
"They came with all these Polaroids of the locations, and one of the locations for the mercenaries, when there's a shot of them all having a discussion," the singer said. While hunting for the perfect setting for one of the video's scenes, the directors accidentally uncovered a piece of Iron Maiden history, which served as a reminder of how far Dickinson had come since joining the group. 'They're controlling you by computers,' you know? And the guy had glasses on and you could see his reflection on the scene, and we thought, 'Ohhh, that looks modern!" "Back in the day, when this was made, they were the great unknown. "These guys came in with this sort of high concept, with this guy on a computer," Dickinson recalled. Watch Iron Maiden's '2 Minutes to Midnight' Video It also spawned their first-ever conceptual video, which weaves a tale of spies, stolen warheads and an unsafely stored hand grenade. It has gone on to become Iron Maiden's sixth-most played live song of all time. "2 Minutes to Midnight" was a big success upon release, hitting No. "And about the romance of it, and the horror of it, and the two things together, and the fact that, unfortunately, we're repelled and fascinated by it." "It's a song about the experience of war," Dickinson explained in The History of Iron Maiden Part Two. "That sounded like a song title." (The clock was founded by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947, and features hands thatĀ move closer and further away from midnight as world events warrant, estimating the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.) "The Doomsday Clock was ticking at two minutes to midnight," he remembered. President Ronald Reagan "expounding about the ' evil empire' of the Soviet Union," as Dickinson noted in his 2017 autobiography What Does This Button Do?, the lyrics also came easily. With Cold War tensions at a high, and then-U.S. He started singing, and we had '2 Minutes to Midnight.' We wrote it in aboutĀ 20 minutes." "So I played him the music to it, and he had a bunch of lyrics. I was sitting in my hotel room in a jersey working on this riff, and there was a banging on the door." It was Dickinson, who immediately demanded to be let in on the action. "That's basically a hard-rock tune," Smith explained in Martin Popoff's 2 Minutes to Midnight: An Iron Maiden Day-by-Day.