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.
Automatic Midnight band was needed Gar Wood was called in to play the bass guitar. The band was not conceived as a permanent project, and after some touring Reis returned to working full-time with Rocket From the Crypt. However, Hot Snakes would reconvene intermittently over the next several years to record two more studio albums and tour, with Wood on board as a permanent member. Automatic Midnight Automatic Midnight is the first studio album by the San Diego, California post-hardcore band Hot Snakes, released in 2000 by Swami Records. Both the band and the album began as a "side project" for John