Minutes To Midnight is certain proof of Linkin Park's severe boredom over their old nu-metal sound. While their previous albums included heavy metal guitars and screaming vocals mixed with rapping, Minutes To Midnight seems to exclude this combination from most of the songs. It's a calmer album, with deep meaningful lyrics and beautiful vocals from Chester Bennington. Yet it's certainly not a weak and poppy album!
Songs such as Given Up, Bleed It Out and No More Sorrow ensure that Linkin Park didn't lose their grit and angst, and their knack for helping fans to release their anger.

First off I love Linkin Park! They are one of my favourite bands so i gave the album some time. If you aren't a fan of Linkin Park then you will find this is an album that is very hard to like. But to be honest I like each and every song on the album (they might not be the best they have made but they work for me!). They have a much more different sound from their other album's Hybrid Theory and Meteora. We also get to hear a lot more from Mike Shinonda on the album. I would put 4 and a half star's for this album if i could but unfortunately i can't :(. Linkin Park fan's=Must buy!!

Before I had not liked linkin park mosly because i wasen't into most of their music (Nu Metal) But i heard one song from this album "Shadow Of The Day" Soft song good beat and a political them to it just like the other song "Hands Held High" After listening to these songs over and over i decided to broaden my horizons with linkin park listening to other great titles from minutes to midnight such as "Bleed It Out" Fast Rap song with catchy lyrics and a clapping background, Of course at the time of the release one song in the album featured in a well known film "Transformers" The song "What I've Done" Featured in the movie this also being a really great song.

Basically if your not a fan of linkin park but you are a fan of rock/alternative this is a must buy a few metal songs but mostly good rock and drum beats.