LINKIN PARK – Unreleased Chester Bennington Track

LINKIN PARK claim to have at least one unreleased song featuring vocals from their late frontman Chester Bennington. The group’s Mike Shinoda recently spoke of that track, “Friendly Fire“, which originated during the sessions for the band’s gold-certified final album with Bennington, “One More Light“. Speaking recently via Twitch livestream, Shinoda stated:

“There was a song — a One More Light song that… we mixed more [songs] than [are present on] the finished album and we mixed a couple other songs just to see if one of them would make the cut or whatever — if we could use it for a b-side and it was ‘Friendly Fire‘.”

The track was co-written by Jon Green and according to Shinoda, it will be years before the track eventually surfaces.

Linkin Park is well known for its natural mixing of different music styles that is far different from the music nowadays bands would like to offer. This phenomenon makes this band a “hybrid” in the type of music they play and their fan-base too. Linkin Park began its early origin in 1996 when rapper guitarist, Brad Delson and the MC/vocalist, Mike Shinoda started a band called Xero. Both of them had attended high school together, where they met the band’s drummer, Rob Bourdon. Later on Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena, where as Delson, who was attending UCLA, shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. To be the last member of the group was Mark Wakefield, the band’s vocalist. At the beginning of the group career, Xero released a four track demo tape, which includes “Fuse”, “Stick N’ Move”, “Rhinestone” and “Reading My Eyes”. Soon after Mark Wakefield left the band, the other members agreed to change their name to Hybrid Theory, after which Phoenix also decided to leave the band to tour with another band called the Snax. As the two persons left, the rest of the band continued to play together primarily for fun. Later they signed with Zomba Music, an occasion that fortunately came about when they played at The Whiskey Club in Los Angeles. And the time came for the vocalist Chester Bennington, who had made records since his 16 year age and whose pitch notes was “great,” to complete the empty seat on the band.