Linkin Park marked the 20th anniversary of their appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien by uploading their furious and grippingly intense performance of One Step Closer on YouTube. The nu-metal kings were guests on the show on January 16, 2001, celebrating the release of debut album Hybrid Theory just a few months prior. And from the dyed hair to the band’s collective nu-metal bounce during Chester Bennington’s iconic ‘Shut up when I’m talking to you!’ screams, everything about this absolutely rules. Read this: Every song on Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory, ranked from worst to best Reflecting on One Step Closer last year with Kerrang!, Mike Shinoda explained of the band’s influences and how they played into the music: “I always told people, ‘Don’t try to put the nu...
