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One Step Closer (Linkin Park song)
2000 single by Linkin Park From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"One Step Closer" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park, released as the debut single from their debut album, Hybrid Theory.[7]
A remixed version of the song entitled "1Stp Klosr", featuring Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, was featured on Linkin Park's remix album, Reanimation. In 2021, Linkin Park released a new remix of the song by electronic duo 100 gecs.[8]
The song was mashed up with another song by the band from Hybrid Theory, "Points of Authority", and a collaboration of the song "99 Problems" from The Black Album by Jay-Z on the EP Collision Course.
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Live performances
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In 2001, Linkin Park performed "One Step Closer" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.[9]
On October 27, 2017, during the Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington, Jonathan Davis performed the song again with the remaining Linkin Park members alongside Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh of Julien-K and Dead by Sunrise.
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Music video
Joe Hahn of Linkin Park and director Gregory Dark came up with the concept for the video.
Directed by Dark[10] and shot in Los Angeles, sixty-three feet underground in the abandoned Hollywood Subway underneath Bunker Hill, the video begins with a group of teenage friends hanging out around a dark alley. Two of them follow a strange man wearing a black hooded robe into a door which leads them to a dark, misty room where the band is playing. Monk-like men are performing martial arts moves throughout the video. Midway through the song, they knock over a crate, startling the monk-like men, and then flee the tunnel. Eventually, the strange man appears at the end of the video. While Bennington screams the song's bridge, he is also upside-down.[11]
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Critical reception
Billboard and Kerrang both named "One Step Closer" as the fourth-greatest Linkin Park song.[12][13]
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Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic for original release only.[14]
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References
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