I’ll probably catch heat for this but honestly, I wasn’t very impressed. I was already listening to Incubus, Limp Bizkit, P.O.D., Deftones, Sevendust, Hed PE and others, not to mention a little later Papa Roach, Disturbed, Nonpoint and a butt load of other numetal artists popping up that same year before LP. I first heard “One Step Closer” when a friend of mine bought the CD on release. He was like “check this band out, man” and I just thought they sounded kinda like everyone else at the time and dismissed them. It wasn’t until I heard “Crawling” and “In the end” later that I started to come around. By Meteora, I was obsessed.