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
2 Minutes to Midnight reading since 1953. According to Dickinson, the song critically addresses "the romance of war" in general rather than the Cold War in particular. Currently in the year 2018 the clock reads 2 minutes to midnight. The first B-side is a cover of British progressive rock band Beckett's "Rainbow's Gold", which was featured on their self-titled album released in 1974. The song was written by Terry Slesser and Kenny Mountain, respectively the band's vocalist and guitarist. On the original release, it is titled "A Rainbow's Gold". According to Nicko McBrain, commenting on the single in "Listen With Nicko Part VI" (as