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Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park just released music for the first time since Chester Bennington’s passing.

 

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda unveiled a new three-track EP, Post Traumatic. The project marks the musician’s first new music since the death of his Linkin Park bandmate, Chester Bennington.

The first song released with a video is incredibly haunting.

With lyrics like “Cause I’m tired of the fear that I can’t control this” and “I’m tired of feeling like every next step’s hopeless”, this hauntingly beautiful song titled “Place To Start” expresses the confusion, pain and fear he’s going through since he lost his best friend and bandmate.

At the end of the video he shares some of the voicemails he’s received from friends expressing their concerns for his wellbeing after Chester’s death.

“The past six months have been a rollercoaster,” Shinoda said in a statement.

“Amidst the chaos, I’ve started to feel an intense gratitude – for your tributes and messages of support, for the career you have allowed me to have, and for the simple opportunity to create. Today, I’m sharing three songs I wrote and produced, with visuals that I filmed, painted, and edited myself. At its core, grief is a personal, intimate experience. As such, this is not Linkin Park, nor is it Fort Minor – it’s just me. Art has always been the place I go when I need to sort through the complexity and confusion of the road ahead. I don’t know where this path goes, but I’m grateful I get to share it with you.”

Watch the video below:

His second track released is titled “Over Again” and the lyrics finds Shinoda directly addressing Bennington’s death and the emotional challenge of performing at Linkin Park’s tribute concert for the late singer and his anxiety over figuring out what comes next.

“And every step I took I looked and wasn’t any closer,” he raps over thumping drums, “Cause sometimes when you say goodbye, yeah, you say it/ Over and over and over and over.”

Watch the video below:

Post Traumatic closes with “Watching As I Fall,” another hard-hitting song packed with thundering percussion and jagged synth swells.

“Maybe I should be more grateful,” Shinoda belts, “That I had to watch it all come undone/ Holding so tight to the edge is painful/ But can’t ignore it I know.”

Watch the video below:


Sources: YouTube
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