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Stone Temple Pilots accompanist Scott Weiland, Dec. 3, 2015. Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog frontman and abandoned artisan Chris Cornell, May 18, 2017. And now Chester Bennington, accompanist of Linkin Park, on July 20, 2017 – begin asleep at 41 on his backward acquaintance Cornell’s birthday. In aloof over 18 months, three singers who helped ascertain a bearing of the adamantine bedrock sound, who were angry calm artistically and personally, accept succumbed to the actual affecting affliction that fueled their music and awash millions of albums over a 30-year-long period.
The ties that bind were many.
Bennington, like Cornell, was found dead by blind aloof two months afterwards the Soundgarden frontman’s death. Linkin Park and Cornell met in 2007 on bout and teamed up in 2008 on the Projekt Revolution tour; Bennington would generally accompany Cornell to sing the Temple of the Dog archetypal “Hunger Strike” and alike led the army in singing “Happy Birthday” to bless Cornell’s 44th birthday in 2008. “I’m such a fan. I anticipate that’s the best important aspect of why I do what I do and how I do it,” Bennington told Rolling Stone in 2008. ”I’ve got to comedy with a lot of guys that I’ve developed up loving; I get to sing on date with Chris Cornell. … I’m aloof like, ‘What apple do I alive in, ‘cause this can’t be real?’”
Bennington afterwards became the asperse to Cornell’s son and sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at the grunge rocker’s burial in May. “You accept aggressive me in abounding means you could never accept known,” Bennington wrote to Cornell in an accessible letter afterwards his death. This morning, in acknowledgment to Bennington’s death, Cornell’s wife Vicky tweeted, “Just aback I anticipation my affection couldn’t breach any more...”
Bennington’s accord to Weiland was different—the Linkin Park co-founder replaced him as the accompanist in Stone Temple Pilots in 2013. STP and LP met on the 2001 Family Values Tour, but Bennington had actually admired STP and Weiland as a kid. In assorted interviews, Bennington had said that being a affiliate of the Stone Temple Pilots was his constant dream. That came accurate aback the associates of STP accursed Weiland and teamed with Bennington for a bout and five-track EP, High Rise, accustomed to ”Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington.” ”I grew up alert to these guys,” Bennington told L.A. radio base KROQ. “When this befalling came up, it was aloof like a no-brainer.” His accord with Weiland never flagged, though, and Weiland knew Bennington didn’t accompany the accumulation to animosity him. Two years later Bennington would bow out of STP to absorb added time with his wife and six children, and focus on new music with Linkin Park.
As children, both Bennington and Weiland were sexually abused by earlier men. In his book Not Asleep & Not For Sale, Weiland wrote that aback he was 12 years old “a aerial academy chief … [who] rode the bus with me every day to academy … arrive me to his house. The dude raped me. It was quick, not pleasant. I was too abashed to acquaint anyone.” He continued, “This is a anamnesis I suppressed until alone a few years ago when, in rehab, it came calamity back.” Bennington had said that he was additionally abused by an earlier macho acquaintance from the time he was aloof seven years old. “It escalated from a touchy, curious, ‘what does this affair do’ into full-on, crazy violations,” he told Kerrang! magazine in 2014. “I was accepting baffled up and actuality affected to do things I didn’t appetite to do. It destroyed my self-confidence. Like best people, I was too abashed to say anything. I didn’t appetite bodies to anticipate I was gay or that I was lying."
All three were additionally abutting in their attempt with drugs and booze and depression, a attempt they channeled into their music. Soundgarden accustomed aboriginal in the mid-’80s, authoritative a name for themselves in the beginning Seattle arena afore the band—and their contemporaries—blew up the alfresco world. They had an arty, heavy, but accessible sound, peaking with 1994’s Grammy-winning, Billboard 200-topping Superunknown—the anthology that brought Cornell’s afflicted bawl to the masses. He would additionally approach his backward acquaintance Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose, with the Temple of the Dog activity with associates of Pearl Jam.
Next came Stone Temple Pilots out of San Diego, CA, with Weiland slithering in blush calamus boas, singing about his struggles over the band’s modern, bright aberration on archetypal rock. Bennington, weaned on both, abutting Linkin Park in 1999, anon absolution a cord of albums that accomplished awe-inspiring success with their heavy, but modern, cyberbanking and hip hop-influenced sound. The bandage was generally unfairly roped into the nu-metal brand alongside bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Disturbed, but were far added accommodating to experiment, absolution a brace of remix albums featuring underground rappers, accommodating with JAY-Z, and alive electronics into their complete over seven flat albums.
All three singers served a agnate role to their fans, too; Soundgarden and STP appealed to the rockers and outcasts of Bearing X, while Linkin Park did the aforementioned for antagonistic Millennials and Gen Zers with monster hits like “Numb,” “Crawling,” “In the End” and “One Step Closer.” Abounding admirers reacted to the accident of Bennington on amusing media, abandoning how his articulation ushered them through aerial school, and acquaint their admired lyrics. A meme with the lyrics to “Leave Out all the Rest,” from 2007’s Minutes to Midnight, was a favorite: “I’m able on the apparent / Not all the way through / I’ve never been absolute / But neither accept you.”
