Even a near quarter-century on from Hybrid Theory, the size and swiftness of Linkin Park’s impact and dominance remains a genuinely staggering thing. Arriving at a time when nu-metal was already selling by the tonne (seven days before LP’s debut dropped, Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish… had done a million in a week upon release, while the previous year, Korn’s Issues album had gone gold in America on pre-orders alone), it was expected that they’d do well. But whatever predictions might have been made at the start, they were proved almost wildly inaccurate even a year on, when Linkin Park had become one of the biggest bands on the planet, with the best-selling rock debut since Appetite For Destruction. There was never a point in the followin...