Minutes to Midnight World Tour Minutes to Midnight World Tour Minutes to Midnight World Tour was the fourth concert tour by American rock band Linkin Park. It was launched in support of Linkin Park's third studio album, "Minutes to Midnight" (2007). "Linkin Park Underground" the official fan club of the band released a live album as a part of their annual releases named as "LP Underground 7.0". It consisted of the live performances of the shows across the 2007-Minutes to Midnight tour. The tour was announced in April 2007 after the release of the hit single "What I've Done". The tour consists of five legs.
2 Minutes to Midnight and Bruce Dickinson. The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among USSoviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 – the year this track was released – and at that time the most dangerous clock