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\nShocking news to report. LINKIN PARK lead vocalist Chester Bennington reportedly committed suicide today. He was 41 years old.<\/p>\n
Leading entertainment media sites have begun to report the news that police claim to have found the singer dead from an apparent suicide by hanging, eerily similar to what happened just barely over 2 months ago with Chris Cornell of SOUNDGARDEN (and oddly on Cornell’s bday today)<\/em>. Police say the singer was found hanging at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County. For any career artist, making new material matter can be the biggest challenge. Inspiration is a fickle thing, and past success often draws a bar that is hard to overcome. But once in a while, unexpectedly, lightning strikes\u2014and an artist we think we know goes somewhere we didn\u2019t know was possible. Shocking news to report. LINKIN PARK lead vocalist Chester Bennington reportedly committed suicide today. He…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58623,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58618\/revisions\/58623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nMore details to come as the story develops.
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\nTMD sends out condolences to Chester’s family, band mates, friends and fans all around the world. He will be greatly missed.<\/strong>
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\nLinkin Park is an outlier. The band\u2019s risky creative choices\u2014swinging wildly from song to song, album to album\u2014are a hallmark of their career. Few artists effortlessly blend genres, emotions, and ideas with a voice as signature as Linkin Park’s. They are, after all, the architects of the inimitable \u201cHybrid Theory,\u201d the only band proven to be as at-home on stage with Jay-Z as with Metallica, Steve Aoki, and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n
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