One Step Closer (Linkin Park song)
"One Step Closer" is a song by the
Nu metal band
Linkin Park. It is the second track from their debut album,
Hybrid Theory (
2000).
It was released in
2001, as their debut single.
The original title for the song was "Plaster". The band say they created "One Step Closer" while struggling on "
Runaway", the sixth track from
Hybrid Theory.
The single was released in
2001, achieving notable success in
Australia, but moderate success in the
UK and
US.
There is a
remix of "One Step Closer" on LP's remix album
Reanimation (
2002), titled "1 Stp Klosr" and performed along with
The Humble Brothers and
Korn's lead singer
Jonathan Davis.
Furthermore,
Collision Course (
2004) features a mash-up of this song with "
Points Of Authority" and
Jay-Z's "99 Problems".
"One Step Closer" is Linkin Park's heaviest song. Moreover, contrarily to many others, it features
Mike Shinoda's rapping for a very short time.
Linkin Park has closed every concert with it to date, excluding
Live 8, on July 2nd 2005.
From
2003 onwards, when "One Step Closer" is played live, it is extended. By this, the extended verse or bridge from "1Stp Klosr" ("One Step Closer" remix from "
Reanimation") is used while the band plays the original track.
Joe Hahn of Linkin Park came up with the concept for the video. The original version of the video was supposedly meant to be live footage of the band with fans (similar to the ones of the videos for
Papa Roach's
Last Resort,
Deftones'
Hexagram and
Korn's debut single
Blind).
The video was shot in
Los Angeles 63ft under ground in an abandoned LA subway tunnel, that is adjacent to an abandoned V.A. hospital.
In this video, the bass is played by
Scott Koziol, who temporarily joined the band before
Dave Farrell's comeback.
The director for the video,
Gregory Dark, interestingly used to be a
porn director.
#"One Step Closer"#"My December"#"High Voltage"
#"One Step Closer" (CD-ROM Music Video)
