Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on May 14, 2007, through Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. "Minutes to Midnight" was the band's follow-up album to "Meteora" (2003) and features a shift in the group's musical direction. For the band, the album marks a beginning of deviation from their signature nu metal sound. "Minutes to Midnight" takes its title from the Doomsday Clock. It is also the first Linkin Park full-length album to carry a Parental Advisory label.
Midnight Peacocks & vocals) and form the Midnight Peacocks. The new band immediately flew to Germany to record the group's first album "It's a Brutal Machine". The album was released in 2006, with such songs from the album as: "Brutal Machine", "Indian Sun", "Island of the Sun" and "Ganja to the Chairman". In the end of 2006, Matan decided to leave the group to focus on his work with punk rock band Got No Shame, and the guitarist position was taken over by Ron Bunker (ex-member of Squid). In 2007, the group released its second studio album "Shalosh" (from the Hebrew word