One Step Closer (Linkin Park song)
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| "One Step Closer" | ||
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| Single by Linkin Park | ||
| from the album Hybrid Theory | ||
| Released | February 13, 2001 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | NRG Studios | |
| Genre | Nu metal | |
| Length | 2 min 35 s | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Don Gilmore | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Linkin Park singles chronology | ||
| "One Step Closer" (2001) |
"Crawling" (2001) |
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"One Step Closer" is a song by the Nu metal band Linkin Park. It is the second track from their debut album, Hybrid Theory (2000).
It was released in 2001, as their debut single.
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[edit] Song
The original title for the song was "Plaster". The band say they created "One Step Closer" while struggling on "Runaway", the sixth track from Hybrid Theory.
The single was released in 2001, achieving notable success in Australia, but moderate success in the UK and US.
There is a remix of "One Step Closer" on LP's remix album Reanimation (2002), titled "1 Stp Klosr" and performed along with The Humble Brothers and Korn's lead singer Jonathan Davis.
Furthermore, Collision Course (2004) features a mash-up of this song with "Points Of Authority" and Jay-Z's "99 Problems".
Contrarily "One Step Closer" features Mike Shinoda's rapping for a very short time.
Linkin Park has closed every concert with it to date, excluding Live 8, on July 2, 2005 and the current Summer Sonic Tour in Japan, where they end with Breaking the Habit.
From 2003 onwards, when "One Step Closer" is played live, it is extended. By this, the extended verse or bridge from "1Stp Klosr" ("One Step Closer" remix from Reanimation) is used while the band plays the original track.
The lyrics added from the Reanimation album are:
"These are the places, Where I can't feel, Torn from my body, my flesh it peels, During this ride we can cut off what we like,
Waiting alone I cannot resist, Feeling this hate I have never missed, Please someone give me a reason, To tear off my face,
Blood is a pouring and pouring, and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring."
[edit] Video
Joe Hahn of Linkin Park came up with the concept for the video. The original version of the video was supposedly meant to be live footage of the band with fans (similar to the ones of the videos for Papa Roach's Last Resort and Korn's debut single Blind).
The video was shot in Los Angeles 63ft under ground in an abandoned LA subway tunnel, that is adjacent to an abandoned V.A. hospital.
In this video, the bass is played by Scott Koziol, who temporarily joined the band before Dave Farrell's comeback.
The director for the video, Gregory Dark, interestingly used to be a porn director.
[edit] Track listing
- "One Step Closer"
- "My December"
- "High Voltage (LP Remake)"
[edit] Bonus
- "One Step Closer" (CD-ROM Music Video)
[edit] Trivia
- The song can be heard in Das Experiment (2001)
- Stand-in bassist Scott Koziol can be seen in one scene of the video.
- The Hybrid Theory soldier can be seen painted on the wall of the tunnel.
- Linkin Park's original logo (back when their name was Hybrid Theory) can be seen on Joe Hahn's turntables.
- Chester is wearing two different shirts in the video.
- Mike is wearing two pairs of Ecko Untld. jeans in the video
- Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this on his 2002 album "Tuxicity"
- The Song was Performed at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards.
- Chester has said this is his least favorite song.
| Linkin Park |
| Chester Bennington - Rob Bourdon - Brad Delson - Dave Farrell - Joe Hahn - Mike Shinoda |
| Scott Belsha (stand-in) - Mark Wakefield - Kyle Christener (stand-in) - Scott Koziol (stand-in) |
| Discography |
| Albums and extended play: Hybrid Theory EP - Hybrid Theory - In The End: Live & Rare - Reanimation - Meteora - Live in Texas - Collision Course EP - T------ and T------ |
| Singles: "One Step Closer" - "Crawling" - "Papercut" - "In the End" - "It's Goin' Down" - "Pts.of.Athrty" - "Frgt/10" - "Somewhere I Belong" - "Faint" - "Numb" - "From the Inside" - "Lying From You" - "Breaking the Habit" - "Numb / Encore" |
| Videography |
| DVDs: Frat Party at the Pankake Festival - Live in Texas - Breaking the Habit |
| Related articles |
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| Bands/Groups: Relative Degree - Xero - Tasty Snax - Grey Daze - Fort Minor - Snow White Tan - The X-Ecutioners |
| Other: Linkin Park Underground - Machine Shop Recordings - Morning After |
- Chester has said this is his least favorite song.
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