NewsJuly 20, 2017 2:20 PM ET20,893 views

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington commits suicide

Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has committed suicide, according to TMZ. He was 41 years-old and leaves behind a wife and six children. The website says that law enforcement sources informed them that the singer hanged himself at a private home in Los Angeles County. His body was discovered at roughly 9am this morning (July 20). Bennington has admitted to considering suicide in the past, and has also been open about his struggles with alcohol and drug addiction.

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meatyd 7/20/2017 11:25:20 AM

fck it

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:26:26 AM

add another deceased Stone Temple Pilots vocalist to the list. are eye pee, Nott Weiland.

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:26:39 AM

RIP hybrid theory all day

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:29:42 AM

I guess his wounds, they could not heeeeeaaaaaaal...

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:30:02 AM

Auto Erotic Asphyxiation

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:31:00 AM

What's DJ Qualls got to do with it?

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:33:55 AM

man... total bummer. haven't really been a big LP fan since like, middle school, but Hybrid Theory and Meteora were on repeat for a while when I was younger. I know he was good friends with Chris Cornell and took his death pretty hard. Today is Chris Cornell's birthday too ironically. RIP Mr. Bennington

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:34:11 AM

In the end...it doesn't really matter...

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:39:10 AM

no lives lost.

easyhateoven 7/20/2017 11:45:08 AM

He had six children?

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:54:29 AM

Expect flooding from waves of the tears of 20-30 year olds who obsess over 90's-00's nostalgia on social media. Seriously, your era as a teenager was the worst.

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:55:32 AM

Either Rob Zombie, Fred Durst or Marilyn Manson will be next

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:56:20 AM

Damn. As a first born i had to find all my music myself so I remember their first album being unlike anything I'd ever heard in my life. One Step Closer literally changed my life and sent me down the path of metal music and eventually made me the terrible man i am today who actually enjoys pornogrind. kinda a shame hes gone :/

anonymous 7/20/2017 11:57:07 AM

his kids are going to be sad hard to believe he would be that selfish

mummified_circuitry 7/20/2017 12:27:20 PM

he couldn't stand to live under a Trump presidency anymore

anonymous 7/20/2017 12:58:13 PM

He clearly took oj being paroled to far.

anonymous 7/20/2017 1:15:00 PM

All LG edgy nonsense aside, this is legitimately sad as fck. RIP

anonymous 7/20/2017 1:18:03 PM

Are they sure he didn't just "Faint"?

anonymous 7/20/2017 1:19:04 PM

Holy. fcking. Shit. Guys. Saw this band in douglasville. The lead vocals had a full body skin tight spandex suit. His c-ck was clearly outlined. The guitarist had a jean jacket on that just had satanist shit all over it. "666" "Hail Satan" etc. Sounded like garbage. Terrible. Out of tune, not even synced with each other half the time, and they just all... weren't good. Halfway through, the lead vocals had some fake blood in his mouth start gushing out and made out with the guitarist on stage.

anonymous 7/20/2017 1:25:32 PM

RIP

anonymous 7/20/2017 1:29:31 PM

Lets hope all metal and rock artists' die sooner than later, that's what you get when you live for the devil

anonymous 7/20/2017 1:38:24 PM

LOL to making out with guitarist on stage with blood in mouth

anonymous 7/20/2017 2:12:53 PM

^^^^^LOL this noob

anonymous 7/20/2017 2:13:34 PM

Waiting to read the list of his prescriptions. Seriously, don't take those SSRI drugs. Just smoke a blunt instead.

anonymous 7/20/2017 2:18:28 PM

WHY CAN'T THIS HAPPEN TO THE DEATHCORE GENRE?

anonymous 7/20/2017 2:31:46 PM

^ read that as "WHY CAN'T THIS HAPPEN TO THE DEATHCORE JON?" I was going to say the last we heard, 'Deathcore' Jon was alive and well having intercourse with his mom while simultaneously receiving oral from his son/brother and so there it is, the final legacy of 'Deathcore' Jon

anonymous 7/20/2017 2:50:15 PM

He hung himself ....why do people keep saying hanged ??

anonymous 7/20/2017 3:00:05 PM

I always knew he was hung. I'll see myself out.

anonymous 7/20/2017 3:09:20 PM

Over steamin hot slices of 'za, co founder of OLD WOUND talked shop bout his peers and let the bean scoop drop about Chestnut, with bits of pie ejecting from his lips he tell me chestnut been textin him bout suicide for a few weeks now..I'm sure he feel remorse that he couldn't help him but the slices kept comin and they were on my tab babay O.o he ordered so many damn when I saw that bill..:0

anonymous 7/20/2017 3:25:22 PM

He hung himself ....why do people keep saying hanged ?? Because there are exceptions to the English language. This being one of them. Read a fcking book for once.

anonymous 7/20/2017 4:39:14 PM

Wait Chris Cornell died how did I miss that

anonymous 7/20/2017 4:40:12 PM

Robin Williams did it better.

anonymous 7/20/2017 5:43:25 PM

Waiting to read the list of his prescriptions. Seriously, don't take those SSRI drugs. Just smoke a blunt instead. You are an absolute idiot. Honestly. Keep sucking Alex Jones dck.

anonymous 7/20/2017 5:58:31 PM

'cause Chester hung himself, Chester hung himself, it happened just today, Jesus caught and pushed him off the shelf, he thought he'd find a BETTER WAY. 88

anonymous 7/20/2017 7:29:01 PM

Vennie from keyholder is NOT stoked.

anonymous 7/20/2017 9:15:03 PM

I really just wanna know what Serj has to say about all of this. And I am not surprised all of you pussies are crying over this white trash wigger "singer" because all of the fans of so called hardcore these days were all nü metal jnco wearing big pants,bigger loser ball sniffers in the 90s and 2000s.

anonymous 7/20/2017 9:33:02 PM

Chester was a Forgotten, Runaway. In The End, he was One Step Closer to finding a Cure for the Itch. Maybe he thought, "By Myself, I'll find A Place for My Head."

Rick____tocchet 7/20/2017 10:06:12 PM

Did the Cubs win today?

anonymous 7/21/2017 12:03:27 AM

maybe the gays in sworn in could actually rip this off too

anonymous 7/21/2017 4:22:56 AM

anonymous16 hours ago Expect flooding from waves of the tears of 20-30 year olds who obsess over 90's-00's nostalgia on social media. Seriously, your era as a teenager was the worst. permalink | report abuse ^ when did you grow up

anonymous 7/21/2017 5:39:15 AM

oh shit i thought it said chester bennington diet, not DIED. i was verrrrry interested in how he got that lean ethiopian look. do not care then

anonymous 7/21/2017 7:11:47 AM

the amount of (likely) caveman-looking long haired metal losers commenting on this post with stuff trying to be "edgy" are hilarious. clicking away at their keyboards with their sausage fingers in their dimly lit basement room of their parents' house, making edgy comments about a dead person. so edgy.

anonymous 7/21/2017 3:41:21 PM

Just reminding everyone that Linkin Park once called the cops on Sublime for smoking weed near the LP dressing room.

anonymous 7/21/2017 5:05:30 PM

^ fake news linkin park even as hybrid theory did not exist until 1999 (source: I was on the street team). this as most know was well after sublime disbanded

anonymous 7/22/2017 12:56:34 AM

^^^^^^^ you're a retard. But that's none of my business.

anonymous 7/22/2017 10:38:32 AM

Now six spoiled twats will grow up without a father figure. What a fcking cowardly bastard.

anonymous 7/24/2017 3:40:35 PM

Rome Ramirez is stoked

anonymous 7/25/2017 12:17:17 PM

Record sales have been off the charts compared to Metallica said no one ever

anonymous 7/26/2017 1:58:13 PM

Seriously, all I can say is good riddance to this talentless hackjob. Linkin Park were NEVER a good band and Chester didn't care about anybody. No wonder he said fck it and became an hero.




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