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    Chester Bennington's Twin Daughters to Be Featured in Grey Daze's New Album

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    The late rock legend’s pre-Linkin Park grunge band reveals that 10-year-old Lily and Lila are making their parents proud from the vocal booth at Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles.

    Apr 13, 2021

    AceShowbiz –
    Chester Bennington’s twin daughters’ vocals will feature on Grey Daze’s new album.

    The late rock legend’s pre-Linkin Park grunge band took to Instagram over the weekend to share some snaps from Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, including one of Chester’s 10-year-old twins Lily and Lila and their mother Talinda Bennington in the vocal booth.

    The pictures were captioned, “We had two of the cutest visitors at @sunsetsoundrecorders Lily & Lila this week. Making their Daddy and Momma proud #greydaze #makingchesterproud #foryouchester #newmusic.”

    Grey Daze have been working under the guise of producers Esjay Jones of Alien Ant Farm and Brian Virtue of Chevelle.

    Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Filter frontman Richard Patrick are also on board.

    The band released the remix album “Amends” last year (2020), which they finished in Chester’s honor, featuring the late rocker’s posthumous vocals.

    Drummer Sean Dowdell said at the time, “He had just finished recording ‘One More Light’ with Linkin Park. He just said, ‘I think it would be great to reunite Grey Daze. We had 30 great songs, it would be good to re-record them with modern technology.’ ”

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    “We talked about doing concerts and we had some interesting festival offers. We started exchanging ideas, he told me how he wanted to modernize the tracks with a view to releasing the record at the end of 2017.”

    Following Chester’s death, Sean realized months later, “I need to finish this record. I need to do it for my friend, in his memory.”

    The group was “guided” through the recording process by the “Numb” hitmaker’s vocals and it was an emotionally “intense” time for them.

    “I was intense and emotional – I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders,” he admitted.

    Sean believes that Chester – who was 41 when he tragically took his own life in July 2017 – felt he had unfinished business with Grey Daze because Linkin Park’s record label allegedly erased their existence.

    “The legacy of Grey Daze was literally wiped off by Warner,” he added. “They took all our music off the internet so Linkin Park could become huge.”

    “I think it’s for that reason he wanted to reform the group. He said, ‘These songs deserve a second chance.’ ”

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      Linkin Park Teases Possibility of Releasing Song Chester Bennington Recorded Before His Death

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      Three years after going into hiatus, band leader Mike Shinoda claims that ‘Friendly Fire’ might eventually be released when they get back together post-the coronavirus lockdown.
      Jun 24, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Linkin Park is considering a comeback featuring unreleased material Chester Bennington recorded before his death.
      The band announced a hiatus following the singer’s suicide in 2017, and now band leader Mike Shinoda has revealed there’s one completed Bennington song, “Friendly Fire”, that might eventually be released when the group gets back to business after the coronavirus lockdown.
      “There was a song, a (album) ‘One More Light’ song,” he says. “We mixed more (songs) than (feature on) the finished album and we mixed a couple other songs just to see if one of them would make the cut or whatever (sic). Or if we could use it for a B-side, and it was ‘Friendly Fire’.”
      “I still love that song. Is that out somewhere? Did we put ‘Friendly Fire’ out at some point? We didn’t, did we?”
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      The news comes weeks after Grey Daze, the band Bennington was part of early in his career, shared a video for their new single, “B12”, which features their late frontman, who was recording music for a reunion record when he died.
      Meanwhile, Shinoda’s Linkin Park bandmate Dave Farrell revealed the group had started work on new material ahead of the coronavirus crisis.

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      Chester Bennington's Widow Brings 320 Festival to Los Angeles for Change in Mental Health Culture

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      Talinda Bennington-Friedman, whose Linkin Park frontman husband died of suicide in 2017, wants to further normalize mental health conversations and provide resources for those in need.
      Mar 11, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Chester Bennington’s widow Talinda wants to normalise mental health conversations and provide resources for those in need and their families with a festival she is launching in Los Angeles in May.
      Talinda Bennington-Friedman established the 320 Changes Direction organisation after the Linkin Park frontman’s death via suicide in 2017, to help raise awareness and funding to tackle mental health issues.
      Now she has teamed up with Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman to launch the first ever 320 Festival, to be held at the L.A. Live venue on 9 May.
      “We are thrilled to announce the 320 Festival and welcome all to L.A. LIVE on May 9th! Come join us for a day dedicated to normalizing mental health conversations and providing resources,” Talinda announced on Twitter.
      Discussing why she launched the organisation with the AltPress website last month, Talinda said she had to watch her late husband struggle with mental health issues, with little help.
      “For 13 years I watched my husband Chester struggle with depression and substance use,” she explained. “I often felt scared and alone. I was uneducated about the challenges he faced and I wanted information, but finding answers to my questions and available help for our family was very difficult.”
      “We need to change the culture of mental health so that those in need – and their family members – are able to speak openly about their struggles so that they can seek the care they deserve.”

      The 320 Festival will include a mental health summit, music and a film event, and all the profits will go to 320’s non-profit partner organisations.

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