Chester Bennington’s pre-Linkin Park grunge band Grey Daze had been supplied festivals and mentioned enjoying exhibits earlier than his passing.
Sean Dowdell – the group’s drummer – has revealed his late former bandmate had mentioned the concept of reuniting for live shows and was decided to re-record their unfinished songs once they spoke in 2016, earlier than he tragically took his personal life a yr later.
The band have simply launched the album ‘Amends’, which they completed in his honour, that includes the late rocker’s posthumous vocals.
Sean is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column as saying: ”He had simply completed recording ‘One More Light’ with Linkin Park.
”He simply stated: ‘I feel it could be nice to reunite Grey Daze.
We had 30 nice songs, it could be good to re-record them with trendy know-how.’
”We talked about doing live shows and we had some attention-grabbing competition affords.
”We began exchanging concepts, he advised me how he wished to modernise the tracks with a view to releasing the file on the finish of 2017.”
Following Chester’s demise, Sean realised months later: ”I would like to complete this file. I must do it for my buddy, in his reminiscence.”
The group had been ”guided” by means of the recording course of by the ‘Numb’ hitmaker’s vocals and it was an emotionally ”intense” time for them.
He admitted: ”I used to be intense and emotional – I felt like I had the burden of the world on my shoulders.”
Sean believes that Chester – who was 41 when he died – felt he had unfinished enterprise with Grey Daze as a result of Linkin Park’s file label allegedly erased their existence.
He added: ”The legacy of Grey Daze was actually wiped off by Warner.
”They took all our music off the web so Linkin Park might turn into enormous.
”I feel it is for that cause he wished to re-form the group.
He stated: ‘These songs deserve a second probability.”’
