Amends

Amends is an upcoming remix album by Grey Daze composed of Chester Bennington's vocals from the 90's over newly recorded instrumentals. "What's In The Eye" was released as the first single from project on January 17, 2020 and was co-produced by Chris Traynor, Kyle Hoffman and Jay Baumgardner. The second single, "Sickness" featuring Page Hamilton, was released on February 5th. Other confirmed songs are "She Shines" (with Brian "Head" Welch), "Soul Song" (with Jaime Bennington), "Morei Sky", "Just Like Heroin (A Little Down)" and "B12". "In Time" and "Hole" are rumored to be on the album as well since they were previewed by Sean Dowdell in 2018 while filming a mini documentary about the band.

Tentatively titled New Sun Today, the project was started in early 2017 when Chester and Sean picked about four songs to recut and sent new guitarist Cristin Davis into the studio to work on them. The album was announced in June by bassist Mace Bayers as a remaster of ...No Sun Today they would be working on with Sylvia Massy. The band had previously tried to release a remastered version of the album through Artemis Records in 2003 but conflicts with lawyers within Linkin Park's label Warner Bros. Records prohibited the release.

The news came with the announcement of a Grey Daze reunion show at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, AZ. They planned on sending the producer on tour with Linkin Park so Chester could record new vocals, however, the project was put on hold following his death on July 20th.

Grey Daze was given permission by Chester's widow, Talinda, to continue working on the project granted that they didn't change Chester's voice. In late December, Sylvia confirmed the sessions had been resumed. According to her, the music would be modernized for the current market using master tapes recorded in the late nineties. Besides Chester's original vocals from the albums, previously unreleased alternate takes were also used on the songs. Sean was encouraged by Rene Mata to make it something special for Chester's fans with a wide release and helped connect him with producer Jay Baumgardner who helmed the final product. The band worked at Salt Mine Studios and NRG Recording Studios with a number of guests which included Ryan Shuck (Julien-K), Marcos Curiel (P.O.D.), Jaime Bennington (Chester’s son), Chris Traynor (Bush), Lucas D'Angelo (Betraying The Martyrs), Esjay Jones, Brian “Head” Welch and James "Munky" Shaffer (Korn), LP (Laura Pergolizzi), Carston Dowdell (Sean's son) and Jasen Rauch (Breaking Benjamin). On June 9, 2019, Grey Daze confirmed they had wraped up the project and by August they had mixed the album.

The album title was taken from the lyrics of "Morei Sky". Sean said, "After Chester passed, being a close friend, you carry this amount of guilt, like, ‘What did I miss? What did I not see? How could I have let this happen to my friend? How could I have prevented this?’ You go through these emotional roller coasters. And then you read those lyrics and go, ‘How the fuck did I not see he was in such a dark place?’ It’s one of those things where it sheds a little bit more light onto who he was deep down and the thoughts that went through his mind." According to him, they have enough material for one or two additional Grey Daze albums which might be released if Amends gets a good response. Some proceeds from the sales will benefit Talinda's 320 Changes Direction and other portions of the proceeds have been allocated for Chester's kids.