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===Revisit===
===Revisit===
After the touring cycle for Linkin Park's [[Minutes To Midnight]] wrapped up, Chester had some down time in fall 2008 and in 2009. He revisited his side project and worked on the material further. At this time, he wrote new songs.
At the same time, Chester was balancing Linkin Park and Dead By Sunrise simultaneously as Linkin Park's huge single "[[New Divide]]" was recorded in spring 2009 and released in May, and Linkin Park embarked on an international summer tour in support of it. Dead By Sunrise performed three songs in the encore of select shows across the world at Mike's recommendation since he said that all members of the band were supportive for both the Fort Minor and Dead By Sunrise projects.
On a February 4, 2009 blog post, Mike said, ''"I was just hanging out with Chester, and got a chance to hear some of his new solo material! In case you haven't heard, he's doing a solo record (he's doing double-duty, working on his album and the LP album simultaneously). The project is called Dead By Sunrise, and the album is being produced by Howard Benson. He played me 9 songs, two of which had amazing vocals. I thought I could hear influences from T-Rex, overall it's a pretty punch-you-in-the-gut rock record. Very cool...look for it later this year, probably September-ish. It's going to be incredible!"''


===Future===
===Future===

Revision as of 03:05, 10 January 2018

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Dead By Sunrise is the name of Chester Bennington's side project, created in 2005. Dead By Sunrise has released an album, Out Of Ashes, in October 2009.

Story

Creation

Chester’s project was created in 2005. He was facing a bitter divorce from his wife Samantha Bennington earlier in the year and he turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with it. His good friend Ryan Shuck, whom Chester knew from the days when Orgy and Linkin Park would record at NRG Studios at the same times and also play together, eventually saved Chester’s life by being a strong support for him. Around the same time, Chester played some solo music for Ryan that he had worked on and Ryan was instantly a big fan. The first song that sparked the project was “Let Down”.

Chester became even closer to Ryan and Amir Derakh and executive produced their album Death To Analog after becoming involved in Julien-K’s music as well. Chester taught Ryan how to sing in new ways and laid down demo vocals for quite a few Julien-K songs so Ryan could go back and record them at a later time for the Julien-K debut album.

At this point, the three of them began to work on Chester’s solo material. At this point, they were referring to the project under the name “Snow White Tan”. Chester said that he’d give Ryan and Amir a song, come back later in the day and be blown away at how great the work was that they did to the track… turning it into a full song from just an acoustic demo.

This was all taking place during Linkin Park’s big break in 2005.

Shelving

Revisit

After the touring cycle for Linkin Park's Minutes To Midnight wrapped up, Chester had some down time in fall 2008 and in 2009. He revisited his side project and worked on the material further. At this time, he wrote new songs.

At the same time, Chester was balancing Linkin Park and Dead By Sunrise simultaneously as Linkin Park's huge single "New Divide" was recorded in spring 2009 and released in May, and Linkin Park embarked on an international summer tour in support of it. Dead By Sunrise performed three songs in the encore of select shows across the world at Mike's recommendation since he said that all members of the band were supportive for both the Fort Minor and Dead By Sunrise projects.

On a February 4, 2009 blog post, Mike said, "I was just hanging out with Chester, and got a chance to hear some of his new solo material! In case you haven't heard, he's doing a solo record (he's doing double-duty, working on his album and the LP album simultaneously). The project is called Dead By Sunrise, and the album is being produced by Howard Benson. He played me 9 songs, two of which had amazing vocals. I thought I could hear influences from T-Rex, overall it's a pretty punch-you-in-the-gut rock record. Very cool...look for it later this year, probably September-ish. It's going to be incredible!"

Future

Frank Zummo was a friend of Chester's and most recently was the drummer of Sum 41 when they opened for Linkin Park's 2017 show in Amsterdam. Frank also joined the Hollywood Bowl tribute show for Chester and guested on several songs. In 2012, Julien-K was looking for a new drummer when Elias Andra left the band. This is the story told by Ryan:

"During our three day cram session, we shot two videos with two different directors and had a day of drummer auditions. We played with a handful of amazing drummers – the finalists were our good friend Frank Zummo (Street Drum Corps) and our new friend Eli James. We wanted to see what it would really be like to have each guy in the band – so we shot one video with each finalist. I think it’s really cool that we documented our … “indecision”… in the face of Elias’ decision to leave the band indefinitely (see past announcements). Although Frank was Elias’ first suggestion to replace himself, we wanted to try some other energy just to be sure. Always a tough choice in the end – wrought with emotion given that we were replacing our friend and brother. We decided to go with Frank – he just felt like he was “in the band” - almost immediately. When we informed Frank of our decision, he showed us a text from Chester saying something to the effect of: “Julien-K is looking for a drummer, you should join them!!”. When I read that I thought “Perfect!!?? If CB is in, I think we made a great decision”"

On July 20th, 2017, Frank posted on Instagram: "We recently were talking about doing some fun Dead By Sunrise shows in the near future."

In an interview with AltPress, he elaborated:

"Going further down the road, Julien-K’s drummer left them right before a tour, and they said, “Hey, we’re doing this tour in Europe. Would you want to do this?” And I was like, “Of course.” We went out to Europe for two weeks, and on that tour, they asked me if I would want to be part of Dead By Sunrise. I was like, “100 percent.” We were going to do a show together in Arizona, where Julien-K were going to play with Street Drum Corps, and Chester was living in Arizona. We were going to do an unannounced, surprise reunion show. Last minute, it wound up not working out.

A couple months ago this past winter, Sum 41 were finishing a nine-week tour. I’m in a random little bar in Russia, and this song comes on, and it was a deep cut from the Dead By Sunrise album that I didn’t recognize at first. I just heard Chester’s voice, and I’m like, “What is this?” And I’m like, “Oh my God, this is Dead By Sunrise!” At that point, I literally got on a group text with Chester, Amir and Ryan. I’m like, “Guys, I’m in Russia. This is a sign. Let’s do this. No stress: Let’s get together for a week, and let’s do a couple pop-up shows in warehouses in downtown LA Let’s just make it really, really special.” And everyone was like, “Yup. Let’s do this.” Chester’s like, “As soon as I have some time off from Linkin Park.” So we were actually talking about it and getting excited. As soon as I got back from the tour, Ryan and Amir were like, “Thank you for doing that. You’re actually getting the band back together right now by your excitement and the way you approached Chester about it.” It’s horrible that we’re not going to have the chance to do that."

Members

  • Chester Bennington


Discography

Studio albums
Singles

References