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Created on: 21 Oct 2005
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A group about the lead singer of Linkin Park Chester Bennington with focus on his solo projects.


Chester Charles Bennington (born March 20, 1976) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead vocalist in the Grammy Award winning rock band Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise, he was previously associated with the band Grey Daze, among others. As of 2009 Bennington has released three studio albums with Linkin Park and released his debut album with Dead by Sunrise in 2009. Bennington's first release with Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, was a commercial success, and he has released several major albums and singles since then. In 2007, Bennington was placed at 46th on Hit Parader's list of "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists".

Bennington joined Z-Trip in 2005 for the single "Walking Dead", released on Z-Trip's major label album Shifting Gears. "Walking Dead" was a Top Ten Single in the US. Bennington also made a surprise appearance during Z-Trip's performance at Coachella 2005.

Bennington teamed up with original Orgy guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh, who perform together as Julien-K, for a solo project. Chester's band is called Dead By Sunrise, formerly known as Snow White Tan. Dead By Sunrise has since released their debut album "Out of Ashes" in October 2009.[38] "Both bands are the same. The one where Chester sings and writes is Dead By Sunrise, but when I sing, and Amir and I are the primary writers, it becomes Julien-K and it's more electro and much darker...Julien-K and Dead by Sunrise are basically a creative collective, we're sort of a Warhol-style factory in that sense[39]," explains Ryan Shuck. "Dead by Sunrise is Chester's Julien-K if that makes any sense."

He has also played minor roles in the movies Crank and Crank: High Voltage and sang for a couple of gigs with "Camp Freddy".

Dead by Sunrise's first album was released October 13, 2009.

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