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Linkin Frontman Goes Solo
Chester Bennington draws on Depeche Mode, the Cure for debut.
With Linkin Park in the early stages of writing the follow-up to 2003's blockbuster
Meteora, frontman Chester Bennington is readying his solo debut.
"
We took Nineties rock, mixed it with Eighties pop like Depeche Mode, the Cure
and Bauhaus and smashed them together," says Bennington. "It's fuckin'
driving beats and walls of guitars."
Songs like "Morning After" and "Walking in Circles" are in the can, and Bennington is especially psyched about a new song, which a friend says "sounds like T. Rex."
Linkin Park hope to preview new material on the road next summer. Meteora sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and the band's most recent release, last December's mash-up album with rapper Jay-Z, Collision Course, debuted at the top of the chart.
Original article appears in Rolling
Stone
August 18th 2005