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One Step Closer (Linkin Park song)
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"One Step Closer" is the debut single by the nu metal band Linkin Park released in 2000 and the second track of their debut album, Hybrid Theory. It is also the song that catapulted the band to stardom, especially towards the rock audience, as well as one of the band's well-known songs. The song reached #79 on the Hot 100 on February 20, 2001.
Live performances
Until 2007, Linkin Park has closed every concert to date with "One Step Closer", excluding Live 8, their live performance at Summer Sonic.
During the 2001 MTV VMA performance of the song, the band had The X-Ecutioners do an extended break before the bridge.
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"One Step Closer" is the debut single by the nu metal band Linkin Park released in 2000 and the second track of their debut album, Hybrid Theory. It is also the song that catapulted the band to stardom, especially towards the rock audience, as well as one of the band's well-known songs. The song reached #79 on the Hot 100 on February 20, 2001.
Live performances
Until 2007, Linkin Park has closed every concert to date with "One Step Closer", excluding Live 8, their live performance at Summer Sonic.
During the 2001 MTV VMA performance of the song, the band had The X-Ecutioners do an extended break before the bridge. This part was somewhat similar to the atmosphere on the remix, with synth parts and faint vocal parts being scratched.
From 2003 to 2007, performances of the song include a verse originally sung by Jonathan Davis in the Reanimation remix of the song before the "Shut up when I'm talking to you!" bridge. At the end of the verse, Bennington then repeats the line "Blood is pouring" while the song builds up to the bridge.
On occasion, Shinoda sings "Blood is pouring" under Bennington's screaming during this part, as is done by Jonathan Davis on the remix. This is half-done on the performance at 2004's Rock am Ring (in that Shinoda only sings the part during the second half of the bridge) and fully done during a performance during 2003's Projekt Revolution tour, which was recorded and included on the "Faint" single and is available as a bonus track for Reanimation when purchased on iTunes. On the single cover, it is called '"One Step Closer" (Reanimated Live)'. During the 2006 live performances in Japan, the Reanimation bridge was played with the main riff of the song.
During the band's 2007 tour, "One Step Closer" became the opening song of Linkin Park's performances, and the Reanimation verse was removed. It also featured a new, extended intro featuring Mike Shinoda on rhythm guitar.
In 2008 it became a new extended outro, and sometimes it was performed as the last song.
Video
Joe Hahn of Linkin Park came up with the concept for the video. The original version of the video was supposedly meant to be live footage of the band with fans (similar to their music video for "Faint").
The actual video was directed by Gregory Dark and shot in Los Angeles 63 feet under ground in an abandoned LA subway tunnel, that is adjacent to an abandoned V.A. hospital. In this video, the bass is played by Scott Koziol, who temporarily joined the band before Dave Farrell's comeback.
The video starts out with a group of teenage friends hanging out around a dark alley, two of them(male played by local LA artist Tony Acosta who goes by the moniker "TonyMech")follow a strange man through a tunnel which leads them to a dark misty room were the band is playing, while strange figures around them do martial arts moves, midway through the song, Chester notices them watching them, and they are chased out of the tunnel by the same figure, whom they followed in.
Video games
The song is featured as a playable track in the music video game Rock Band 2, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and Wii video game consoles, developed by Harmonix. The song is also featured as a playable track in the music video game Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades for the Nintendo DS, developed by Vicarious Visions. This song is also one of two used during the final credits for the Frontlines: Fuel of War for the Xbox 360 and PC.
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Track listing
Maxi CD Single
USA Radio CD
10" Vinyl
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