And he’s like, “I don’t know how long just to scream that part.” I’m like, “Dude, I’m not touching that vocal. He had a ton of control, and he got to that point and just let it go well into the next chorus. He was having a really good day in the studio. So he just held the note as long as he possibly could. We got to the bridge, and he knew that he was supposed to scream “Put me out of my misery,” but he didn’t know how many measures that part was. I had written a lot, or most of, those lyrics, I think, and he had just learned them he was reading them off of a piece of paper. I had organized the song, and Chester hadn’t gotten familiar with the structure of the song when he was singing it. I think it’s a 17- or 18-second-long scream.
"One of our most notorious moments is this big scream on the bridge of “Given Up”. Speaking in a 2020 interview with, Mike Shinoda would explain how the 17-second scream came to be:
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The scream was often split into two, eight-second long screams when performed live allowing Bennington to catch his breath, although he has completed the full scream in various live performances. It notably features a seventeen-second-long scream by Chester Bennington before the final chorus, as well as a steady guitar riff for the choruses of the song. "Given Up" is the heaviest song on the album. The performance of the song is available on the " Bleed It Out" single. Live performances of these three songs at the AOL sessions were released on AOL on May 5, 2007. In 2014, the band was declared as "The Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now" by Kerrang!."Given Up", along with " No More Sorrow" and the hit single " What I've Done", made its live debut on Apin Berlin, Germany. In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade list. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium. They have won two Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, 10 MTV Europe Music Awards and three World Music Awards. In April 2020, bassist Dave Farrell revealed the band was working on new music.Linkin Park is among the best-selling bands of the 21st century and the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 100 million records worldwide.
Linkin Park went on a hiatus when longtime lead vocalist Bennington died by suicide in July 2017. Their sixth album, The Hunting Party (2014), returned to a heavier rock sound, and their seventh album, One More Light (2017), was their first pop-oriented record. The band's fifth album, Living Things (2012), combined musical elements from all of their previous records. By the end of the decade, Linkin Park was among the most successful and popular rock acts.The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types on their fourth album, A Thousand Suns (2010), layering their music with more electronic sounds.
The band explored experimental sounds on their third album, Minutes to Midnight (2007). Their second album, Meteora (2003), continued the band's success. Released during the peak of the nu metal scene, the album's singles' heavy airplay on MTV led the singles "One Step Closer", "Crawling" and "In the End" all to chart highly on the Mainstream Rock chart the latter crossed over to the pop chart. Categorized as alternative rock, Linkin Park's earlier music spanned a fusion of heavy metal and hip hop, while their later music features more electronica and pop elements.Formed in 1996, Linkin Park rose to international fame with their debut studio album, Hybrid Theory (2000), which became certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Vocalists Mark Wakefield and Chester Bennington are former members of the band. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon, all of whom are founding members. Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.