Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) from 2007 to 2010. Linkin Park Production Guest musicians on "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day", "Hands Held High", "The Little Things Give You Away", and "No Roads Left" 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
Seven Minutes to Midnight (song) member the post-punk band Pink Military) and the transformation of Wylie's first outfit into the better known four piece Wah!. The track's title is a reference to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and their iconic Doomsday Clock. In 1980, in an atmosphere of increasing nuclear paranoia and failing detente over Soviet involvement in Afghanistan, the Bulletin moved the clock forwards two minutes, to the eponymous seven minutes to midnight. This was the first popular song to make an obvious reference to the clock, a theme that has been repeated frequently ever since. Seven Minutes to Midnight (song) "Seven Minutes