Chester Bennington of Linkin Park dead

feedthecollapse · 20 July 2017 18:19

anon73286315 · 20 July 2017 18:21

Holy shit

Made a large part of my teenage life did Linkin Park so this news is shocking. RIP

1101010 · 20 July 2017 18:24

TMZ, though

Avoid any mention of the method in headlines as this inadvertently promotes and perpetuates common methods of suicide.

anon73286315 · 20 July 2017 18:25

Consequence Of Sound have put in the headline as well

hip_young_gunslinger · 20 July 2017 18:25

I listened to Hybrid Theory so often as a young teenager I genuinely thought I’d wear out the CD. It’s probably the record I’ve listened to most in my life thanks to that.

anon73286315 · 20 July 2017 18:29

Bennington long struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. He recently lost a close friend in Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who died by suicide in April. Bennington sang “Hallelujah” at Cornell’s funeral. Incidentally, today would have been Cornell’s 53rd birthday.

Sad

jordan_229 · 20 July 2017 18:31

Fuck

theShipment · 20 July 2017 18:31

Sheesh. RIP.

iamwiggy · 20 July 2017 18:32

Fuck, Hybrid Theory was probably THE biggest album for my generation

iamwiggy · 20 July 2017 18:34

that album was everywhere, I bet there’s very few people in their late twenties who didn’t hear it repeatedly for a couple of years after it came out

Badgertastic · 20 July 2017 18:42

Was really hoping this was fake news. Such a waste of life…I hate how one person’s suicide motivates another. Someone very close to me hanged himself less than a year ago which was in turn less than a year after one of his work colleagues had killed herself. All he could think of was that he was in still in pain but she wasn’t any longer. No matter how many times we tried to help him he couldn’t get that thought out of his head.
…anyway RIP Chester Bennington

TKC · 20 July 2017 18:46

fucking hell

Severed799 · 20 July 2017 18:49

Oops, started a social board thread. Anyway, very sad

casinobay · 20 July 2017 19:00

In The End is an incredible, incredible tune!
But the lyrics seem so poignant right now.

So sad!

ynot · 20 July 2017 19:02

Fuck. I was around my sisters for my youngest nephews birthday. The eldest who’s 13 and likes Linkin Park, came in and told me. Had to give him a hug as he looked quite upset about it.

badmanreturns · 20 July 2017 19:04

TMZ in ‘being cunts’ shocker

This is horribly sad

1986_and_all_that · 20 July 2017 19:10

Awful news. I’m sure they were a gateway band to many on here. RIP

Native12 · 20 July 2017 19:24

Awful news.

Lo-Pan · 20 July 2017 19:35

Man this is sad, I’m not a huge fan but 41 is nothing. Poor guy

he_2 · 20 July 2017 19:49

I always find someone’s suicide so hard to process. Just, the inner turmoil and pain he must have been in, fucking hell, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

But the poignancy of him taking his life on Cornell’s birthday, JFC, incredibly sad…