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== Background ==
== Background ==
On April 14th, 2005, the song was first uploaded to a Linkin Park fan site called chestersings.com after the song was provided to them by a user named Astat, who found the song on Kazaa with the filename Wakefield - Ground Xero.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050418212133/http://www.chestersings.com/index2.html</ref><ref>https://linkinpedia.com/?title=Ground_Xero</ref>  
On April 14th, 2005, the song was first uploaded to a Linkin Park fan site called chestersings.com after the song was provided to them by a user named Astat. They had found the song on the peer-to-peer file sharing website Kazaa with the filename Wakefield - Ground Xero.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050418212133/http://www.chestersings.com/index2.html</ref><ref>https://linkinpedia.com/?title=Ground_Xero</ref>  


The song was first reuploaded to YouTube on April 29th, 2008 by user theoryoflinkin.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3egnoj9nMU</ref>
The song was first reuploaded to YouTube on April 29th, 2008 by user theoryoflinkin.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3egnoj9nMU</ref>

Revision as of 02:23, 28 December 2024

ⓘ This lostwave is classified as unsolved.

Ground Xero

Cover of Linkin Park's self-titled demo tape from 1997, when they were known as Xero.
Genre Alternative Rock
Year 2000-2005
Status Unsolved
Original poster Astat
Search started 2005
File:GroundXero.mp3

Ground Xero is an unidentified alternative-rock song that was misattributed as a demo created by Mark Wakefield, the original lead singer of the nu-metal band Linkin Park.

Background

On April 14th, 2005, the song was first uploaded to a Linkin Park fan site called chestersings.com after the song was provided to them by a user named Astat. They had found the song on the peer-to-peer file sharing website Kazaa with the filename Wakefield - Ground Xero.[1][2]

The song was first reuploaded to YouTube on April 29th, 2008 by user theoryoflinkin.[3]

On November 20th, 2009, co-founder of Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, confirmed that the song was not created by any iteration of the band.[4][5]

The song first gained attention in the Lostwave community on December 15th, 2020, when Reddit user 483894387YES76 posted about the song on r/lostwave.[6]

Leads

Possible

Debunked

  • Single Bullet Theory - Ground Xero: Hoax post that created a fake channel impersonating an auto-generated YouTube topic channel.[7][8] The distributor mentioned in the video description is the same person who falsely claimed that their father created the song.[9]

Lyrics

Resources