“In Pieces” by Linkin Park

"In Pieces" sits on Minutes to Midnight, Linkin Park's third album and the 2007 record where they began edging away from their signature nu metal sound. Chester Bennington sings it, and the credits split the writing six ways, between Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, David Michael Farrell and Joe Hahn. Shinoda produced it with Rick Rubin, on the band's first album without Don Gilmore at the controls.

The road there was long. Work began back in 2003, then stalled while the band toured behind Meteora and while Shinoda and Bennington chased side projects, Fort Minor and Dead by Sunrise, and when they came back to it with Rubin, they steered somewhere new. The album took its title from the Doomsday Clock.

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