LOOK: Linkin Park Shares Heartbreaking Post About Chester Bennington

You may have heard the sad news that broke last week that Chester Bennington, Linkin Park’s lead vocalist, passed away at age 41.

Like all of us, his bandmates were also shocked and heartbroken.

Mike Shinoda, Chester’s co-vocalist, was one of the first to express his grief on Twitter.

Shocked and heartbroken, but it’s true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.

— Mike Shinoda (@mikeshinoda) July 20, 2017

This week, the surviving members of the band released a heartbreaking statement about Chester’s death. They posted it on Facebook.

From this post, it seems the future direction of the band is not yet clear. Moreover, they have already canceled remaining tour dates for One More Light.

Shortly after posting this statement on Facebook, Mike Shinoda shared an old photo of the group via Instagram. He said the photo might have been taken some time in 1997 or 1998, which shows how long the band members have been friends.

1997 or 1998…I think this was the first photo we ever took together. We had just told Chester that we wanted him to join the band. He said he was ready to move out from Arizona to L.A. We went to a pizza place near UCLA to hang out and talk about what to do next. The band was called Xero at the time, and we probably had less than a half a dozen songs. No flame tattoos yet, no red hair yet, most of us were still in college.

A post shared by Mike Shinoda (@m_shinoda) on Jul 24, 2017 at 9:47am PDT

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