No-one could’ve expected what Linkin Park did with their sophomore album, 2003’s Meteora. Everyone knew the band were popular – you couldn’t walk two feet at the turn of the millennium without hearing One Step Closer – but not even the savviest critics and fans had any real idea what they were in for. Least of all those at Kerrang!. “With Hybrid Theory, an album so precisely targeted to satiate music buyers rather than music lovers, you can’t help but wonder if there’s any need for a Part 2,” said Kerrang!’s lukewarm 3/5 review of the album in 2003. The critique goes on to say that “if, as Chester Bennington recently claimed, the only pressure the band are under comes from themselves, then it appears the quintet have given themselves a pretty easy ride of it.” Wh...