Chester Bennington, Linkin Park Singer, Dead at 41
Source: Rolling Stone
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington died of an apparent suicide by hanging Thursday morning, according to The Associated Press. Police in Palos Verdes Estates, in Los Angeles County told TMZ that the singer's body had been discovered just before 9 a.m. The singer was 41. A representative confirmed the death to Rolling Stone.
"Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true," Bennington's fellow Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda said on Twitter. "An official statement will come out as soon as we have one."
Bennington's screamed and emotional vocals provided a gritty counterpoint to co-frontman Mike Shinoda's raps on the group's nu-metal hits like "In the End" and "One Step Closer." He sang the poppy melodies on the band's recent hit "Heavy," which featured singer Kiiara and reached Number Two on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart and Number 11 on the Top 40. In addition to working with Linkin Park, he also fronted Stone Temple Pilots between 2013 and 2015 and the supergroups Dead by Sunrise and Kings of Chaos.
Linkin Park were a breakout hit when they released their debut, Hybrid Theory, in 2000. Its blend of rap, metal and electronic music propelled it to Number Two on Billboard, and the RIAA has subsequently certified it diamond, signifying sales of more than 10 million copies. With the exception of 2014's The Hunting Party, which debuted at Number Three, each subsequent Linkin Park release would claim the top spot. Over the years, they've proven themselves to be a malleable act, focusing more on electronic music sometimes and harder rock at others, and even teaming with Jay-Z on the platinum-selling Collision Course EP in 2004 and Steve Aoki on the remix release A Light That Never Comes in 2014. Their most recent LP, One More Light, came out this past May.
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janx
(24,128 posts)I'm 59 years old and love Linkin Park. What a voice that guy had! He must have had his demons. Shit.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)This was the guy in the Saw 8 car scene, wasn't he?
I know it's sad that that's how I know of him.
Not posting the link because it's very disturbing and inappropriate at this moment.
It's always sad when people with seemingly stable lives and careers decide to leave the world voluntarily.
Here's something from just last month:
http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/linkin_park_chester_bennington_hellfest_tweets
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)who also commited suicide.
"The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom *Its* invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.
Make no mistake about the people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window, i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Skittles
(153,261 posts)who wouldn't understand jumping to escape flames? The difference here is while that is technically suicide, it really isn't. It is only suicide if you go into the building intending to jump.
I do understand the gist of what he was saying - when life becomes painful, overwhelming, intolerable, death can seem preferable
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)He says it is divorce, debt and drugs combined with diminished earning potential that does a lot of these guys in, inertia can keep them going for a long time but when it all stops and it can stop abruptly they face a hopeless sense that there is no way back and no way forward and they can't even bring themselves to talk about it to anybody fearing public humiliation.
cate94
(2,816 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)Wuddles440
(1,132 posts)in the last two decades. His vocal range was simply incredible. RIP, dude.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I love that song. Seems like this must have been how he was feeling.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Was driving in my car today listening to the local npr station and they were playing Linkin Park as a lead in to the next program and I was remarking to my kid how crazy it was that NPR was using Linkin Park as background music ...
I get home to find this on DU . Haven't thought about Linkin Park in at least a year.
Suddenly here they are.
The coincidences in life are sometimes very creepy.
Sorry to see we lost another talent to the pressure of celebrity.
RIP