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Of all the nu-metal to emerge in the late '90s/early 2000s, Linkin Park's 2001 debut album, Hybrid Theory, was the bestselling. They took all the elements of the genre-metal licks, hip-hop beats, hushed singing, rapping, screaming-and made something truly radio-friendly out of it. Linkin Park were so on fire in the beginning of the millennium that their remix album, Reanimation, sold nearly 270,000 copies in the first week of its 2002 release. Early singles such as "Crawling," "One Step Closer" and "In the End" were popular largely because of how intensely they expressed feeling strong painful emotions and not knowing what to do with them-in other words, teen angst. 30 Seconds to Mars and AFI are also on the bill. (AC)
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