Lead Singer of Linkin Park has died

brevity · 20-07-2017 07:13PM #1

https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/888097037933268994

Another suicide...

Very sad. Rip.

Mushy · 20-07-2017 07:14PM

Not a fan but that's shocking!

Cool_CM · 20-07-2017 07:21PM

Just saw that there, again, not a fan but nobody wants to see that. Saw them support Metallica at the RDS in the St Anger tour, the crowd was pretty hostile towards them and stuff was being thrown at the stage. He had his head down and caught a packed of sweets that were thrown at him ninja-style, it was pretty impressive!

hdowney · 20-07-2017 07:24PM

Not a fan myself but still heartbreaking to read none the less. Hurts to see someone so broken by their demons that they feel this is the only release. Also feel for his poor family, friends and band mates.

GLaDOS · 20-07-2017 07:24PM

Is TMZ reliable?

Would like to think it could be one of those horrible hoaxes

OldMrBrennan83 · 20-07-2017 07:25PM

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ShaShaBear · 20-07-2017 07:26PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

Is TMZ reliable?

Would like to think it could be one of those horrible hoaxes

I've read about 5 different articles, one RTE.ie - so I'd say it's unfortunately true

GLaDOS · 20-07-2017 07:29PM

ShaShaBear wrote: »

I've read about 5 different articles, one RTE.ie - so I'd say it's unfortunately true

Aye, saw that there. Fuck sake.

Haven't listened to them in ages, but loved them as a teenager. Hybrid theory was one of the my first introductions to metal. The same for a lot of people my age I'd say.

RIP Chester.

20-07-2017 07:30PM

Ah Jaysus, poor bastard.

alchemist33 · 20-07-2017 07:33PM

Shyte. Really liked them a few albums. Faint is still one of my favourite songs.

RIP

myshirt · 20-07-2017 07:33PM

He had a couple of young kids aswell didn't he. Disaster. Really sad.

JP Liz V1 · 20-07-2017 07:34PM

myshirt wrote: »

He had a couple of young kids aswell didn't he. Disaster. Really sad.

I think 6 kids

RIP

Thibus · 20-07-2017 07:35PM

Awful to hear. Loved their first few albums

D.Q · 20-07-2017 07:37PM

Hybrid theory was one of the first metal albums I ever bought. Rip.

AndyBoBandy · 20-07-2017 07:39PM

I wonder with today being Chris Cornell's birthday have any relevance to his taking of his own life?

Yakult · 20-07-2017 07:39PM

Wow shocking!

They just released a new album and everything, really came out of no where.

avfc1874 · 20-07-2017 07:40PM

Very sad, not a massive fan, but always had numb and in the end amongst my playlists

brevity · 20-07-2017 07:41PM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

I wonder with today being Chris Cornell's birthday have any relevance to his taking of his own life?

On the Reddit thread people were saying that him and Chris were close. It might have had something to do with it.

6 kids as well. Very sad.

20-07-2017 07:43PM

Crying shame big part of my childhood for a while rip

helimachoptor · 20-07-2017 07:43PM

yeah not a massive fan either, but seen them once and always would have their songs on the playlist

frozenfrozen · 20-07-2017 07:43PM

spotify threw in a linkin park song early today randomly hadn't heard or even remembered they existed for at least 5 years funny how that happens

marvin80 · 20-07-2017 07:44PM

Shocking news, RIP

Ninjavampire · 20-07-2017 07:47PM

I've always said that their gig at the RDS was the best I had been at, until I'd seen GnR in May. I still listen to Hybrid Theory and Meteora regularly.

Very sad to learn he was so depressed and that a lot of his lyrics where so true to his own personal struggles.

Angron · 20-07-2017 07:48PM

Horrible to hear, I still can't believe it really.

Passenger · 20-07-2017 07:50PM

A lot of people in their late 20's early 30's will have a twinge of nostalgia today as his voice will have resonated with many back in the early 2000's at the height of their fame.

RIP.

Grid. · 20-07-2017 07:53PM

Ahh jeez that's awful.....R.I.P Chester!!:(

PTH2009 · 20-07-2017 07:55PM

Big shock Very sad, he had a great voice

Listened too a lot of Linkin Park when I was a teen. Remember won tickets too the RDS gig but could not make sadly I'll never get too see them now. Lots of nostalgic feelings now

Mushy · 20-07-2017 08:06PM

9 years since last saw them, they may have been abysmal but the Hybrid Theory songs were always good!

Thinking also will probably never see any incarnation of Stone Temple Pilots in any incarnation now!

Panthro · 20-07-2017 08:11PM

Poor guy.
Frickin loved the hybrid theory album when it came out ..

RIP Chester

Sabre0001 · 20-07-2017 08:29PM

Hybrid Theory helped me get into rock music and loved a few of the follow-ups. Seen them in Dublin twice and only a couple of weeks ago at Rock Werchter! Crazy news and pretty gutted. RIP.

Billy86 · 20-07-2017 08:32PM

That one came out of left field, horrible to see and you've got to feel for the family. Grew out of them in a big way after about two years but I still remembering getting digital as a 13/14 year old and being a bit mindblown by the below on Kerrang while the charts over here were rammed with Spice Girls, NSync, Britney Spears, Christina Augilera, that "I'm Blue dabadeedabashutup" song and so on and so on.

Lead Singer of Linkin Park has died

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