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Chester Bennington: Missed Signs and Mixed Messages

He was the slim dude with the heaviest vocals we’ve heard in a long time. When Chester Bennington and his band Linkin Park took the world by storm in the early 2000s, it was a game changer. The band gave a new voice to male angst. With Crawling, In the End, and Numb, Linkin Park dominated the charts.

Chester Bennington / Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda / Chester Bennington, Talinda Bennington / Talinda Bennington.

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After a two-year stint as the frontman of Stone Temple Pilots (from 2013 to 2015), Bennington and Linkin Park released their album, One More Light, in May 2017. The album was described as more of a pop album and got some pretty bad reviews. About two months later, Bennington was found dead in his home. Even those closest to him missed the signs…