A few of his friends committed suicide, and one of his friends died in a freak skateboarding accident down a hill.īennington's parents divorced in 1987, leaving him with his two half sisters and half brother. He was sexually abused as a child, by a close family friend. The band disbanded in 1997 and he moved on to Linkin Park.Ĭhester had a rather unpleasant life right through adolescence.
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He never settled in a full time band until 1992, when he joined Grey Daze. He played various instruments, but mainly he was a vocalist. While Chester was growing up he was in a number of bands. Chester's first instrument was the piano. He was notable for aggressive singing, screamed vocals, as well as melodic singingĬhester was born Maand grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. When he was younger he practiced singing every day until his lungs and throat were sore to get the voice that he has now. He also had a side-project - Dead By Sunrise. Hahn" Hahn's scritchity-scratchity scratches.Chester Charles Bennington a.k.a "Chazy Chaz" (March 20, 1976-July 20, 2017) was the vocalist and co-writer of the band Linkin Park and former vocalist and writer of Grey Daze. Overall, this EP shows a different take on what the band could've become had they not focused more on vocalist Chester Bennington's role in the band, and just had him complimenting rapper Mike Shinoda's rippity-rappity rhymes and DJ Joseph "Mr. Linkin Park are generally an interesting band, even if sometimes cringeworthy, even on this EP where rapper Mike Shinoda states in the track "Step Up" that " Rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer" in a condescending way to other rappers, without the slightest bit of self-awareness. From even just his work on "High Voltage" you can hear the man's passion and love for hip-hop fully realized in its stylish lyrics and delivery, leading into a slick, catchy vocoder hook. Damn! It's always a great moment when I'm reminded of how interesting rapper Mike Shinoda could be as a backpack rapper if he stuck to more traditional hip-hop, and then a depressing moment when I realized he's almost fully gone the way of "woe is me, listen to me make vague statements about my emotional well-being" nu-metal shit that even occasionally plagues some of his Fort Minor work. Interestingly enough, this EP is significantly more hip-hop than most of Linkin Park's other work, I guess because they were used to having a sub-par vocalist and hadn't quite realized vocalist Chester Bennington's full vocal capabilities yet, which is a shame, because even from the chorus on the first track "Carousel", it's VERY apparent he packs a hell of a lot more punch than previous vocalist Mark Wakefield in the harsh vocals department, with his only real big time in the spotlight being the track "And One". Sometime after the release of their demo as Xero, they must've thrown vocalist Mark Wakefield off of a boat or some shit because he's nowhere to be found, but the bleached-tips-cyborg known as Chester Bennington, previously of the band B12, has taken his place, if anything, to play rapper Mike Shinoda's sidekick, only to occasionally come in singing some Islamic-sounding shit in the background on more than one track.
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