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Chester Bennington, Lead Singer of Linkin Park

#1

GasBandit

GasBandit

http://wtkr.com/2017/07/20/tmz-report-chester-bennington-of-linkin-park-commits-suicide/

Hanged himself. Was 41.


#2

Tress

Tress

What the fuck?!

I liked a few of their songs but I was not a big fan overall. It's still rather sad, though.


#3

Terrik

Terrik

The hell? Aw man. Well I was a big fan back in the day. That's terrible :(


#4

GasBandit

GasBandit

Tress said:
What the fuck?!

I liked a few of their songs but I was not a big fan overall. It's still rather sad, though.
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They were one of those bands it was "cool to hate loudly," like Nickelback or Creed. Though Creed really IS awful.

But whether you liked them or not, Linkin Park was definitely a huge influence in the sound of rock in the first decade of the new century.

Their biggest hits were Numb, Faint, In the End, Breaking the Habit, and of course, the often mocked Crawling.


#5

Hylian

Hylian

I was already having a bad day and this just took what little wind I had left in my sails out :(


#6

Bubble181

Bubble181

http://en.mediamass.net/people/chester-bennington/deathhoax.html

Don't worry. He's apparently alive and kicking.


#7

Terrik

Terrik

But even the major news networks are reporting it.


#8

Bubble181

Bubble181

Ok, I officially really don't know anymore. Too many media reporting both of these.


#9

Fun Size

Fun Size

Oh thank goodness. He tried so hard...[DOUBLEPOST=1500578155,1500578124][/DOUBLEPOST]That made more sense as a reply to the hoax.


#10

Bubble181

Bubble181

Fun Size said:
Oh thank goodness. He tried so hard...[DOUBLEPOST=1500578155,1500578124][/DOUBLEPOST]That made more sense as a reply to the hoax.
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Like I said, though, I now seriously don't know which is true. He hasn't tweeted since yesterday, but otherwise....either could be the hoax right now, and I'm leaning towards "dead", sadly


#11

drifter

drifter

Bubble181 said:
Ok, I officially really don't know anymore. Too many media reporting both of these.
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Your link was to a parody website.


#12

GasBandit

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
http://en.mediamass.net/people/chester-bennington/deathhoax.html

Don't worry. He's apparently alive and kicking.
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There's some confusion. The "it's a hoax" article (published yesterday) actually predates when news outlets are saying the body was discovered (this morning).


#13

Bubble181

Bubble181

drifter said:
Your link was to a parody website.
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Which...you know Poe's Law and all that, but...bwuh? I don't see the humor.


#14

fade

fade

GasBandit said:
They were one of those bands it was "cool to hate loudly," like Nickelback or Creed. Though Creed really IS awful.

But whether you liked them or not, Linkin Park was definitely a huge influence in the sound of rock in the first decade of the new century.

Their biggest hits were Numb, Faint, In the End, Breaking the Habit, and of course, the often mocked Crawling.
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Not to mention the stuff they recorded under the name Fort Minor, because their label wanted to keep their rap and alt rock separate.


#15

blotsfan

blotsfan

The AP said the LA coroner has confirmed it.


#16

Fun Size

Fun Size

fade said:
Not to mention the stuff they recorded under the name Fort Minor, because their label wanted to keep their rap and alt rock separate.
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Wait, THEY were Fort Minor!? I didn't mind Lincoln Park, but I really liked what I heard of Fort Minor.


#17

Dave

Dave

I mean their last song was HOOOOOOORIBLE...but I still liked their earlier stuff. The wife is going to be upset. She's a huge fan.


#18

fade

fade

Fun Size said:
Wait, THEY were Fort Minor!? I didn't mind Lincoln Park, but I really liked what I heard of Fort Minor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Minor

Remember the Name was a huge hit, too. But the lead of Fort Minor was not Chester Bennington, it was the rhythm guitarist of Linkin Park.


#19

Dave

Dave

fade said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Minor

Remember the Name was a huge hit, too. But the lead of Fort Minor was not Chester Bennington, it was the rhythm guitarist of Linkin Park.
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Same guys, but a different lead. Fort Minor was a solo-ish project of Mike Shinoda, but everyone from Linkin Park participated as well.


#20

fade

fade

Dave said:
Same guys, but a different lead. Fort Minor was a solo-ish project of Mike Shinoda, but everyone from Linkin Park participated as well.
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The wiki article calls it a "side project", but on the CD from Fort Minor containing Remember the Name, there's a few verbal tracks where they say it was the same band originally, and they tried to put the rap songs on the same album as the rock, but the label wouldn't let them.


#21

drifter

drifter

fade said:
Not to mention the stuff they recorded under the name Fort Minor, because their label wanted to keep their rap and alt rock separate.
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I mean, Fort Minor was Mike Shinoda's side project. I doubt it was because they wanted to keep rap and rock separate, considering Shinoda would rap on Linkin Park songs.

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Whoops, I see I missed some posts.


#22

Dave

Dave

Fuckin' hell. Read this.

http://wmot.org/post/rock-band-california-helped-me-get-through-tough-teenage-years-iran#stream/0

Then check the dates. And check Linkin Park's Mansfield concert date. It's tonight at 7.


#23

Terrik

Terrik

Goddamn


#24



BErt

Also apparently Chester and Chris Cornell were really good friends and today would have been Chris' birthday :(


#25

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

For some reason I always mixed up Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park. I didn't listen to either group, but this is still sad news. Suicide is bullshit. We only get one chance at life. Throwing it away just eats me up.


#26

GasBandit

GasBandit

drawn_inward said:
For some reason I always mixed up Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.
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That's kind of an understandable mistake, they were similar sounds and both dabbled heavily in nu-metal rap-rock, though LB was a little more Bro-Tastic and LP was more Emo, and LB was a little earlier in the spectrum. I can kinda forgive anyone who confuses Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Papa Roach, Staind, POD, and Linkin Park with each other.


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