Nov
30
Listen to Dead By Sunrise on a German radio show at Energy.de!
Nov
30
Linkin Park To Release Special Rarities Album With Fan Club Package
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Linkin Park has announced a December 3rd release date for LPU9: DEMOS, a special rarities album available with a membership to the band’s fan club, the Linkin Park Underground. The album and membership package can be purchased together at www.lpunderground.com and at select Best Buy locations and includes a t-shirt, patch, and other exclusive merchandise items.
LPU9: DEMOS features nine unreleased demo versions of some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Faint,” “Breaking The Habit,” and “Leave Out All The Rest.” Also included is “Across The Line,” a previously unreleased song recorded during the Minutes To Midnight studio sessions. Fans also get “Morning After (acoustic),” from frontman Chester Bennington’s side project, Dead By Sunrise (as an exclusive download).
“Songs change constantly over the course of the creative process, so we thought it’d be cool to share early versions of familiar tracks,” says Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda. “The versions in this collection represent important moments in the evolution of each song: different vocals, music variations, and missing parts. They’re snapshots of our works-in-progress.”
Since its formation in 2001, the LPU’s reach has extended worldwide to form a tight global community. The band has maintained a strong direct bond throughout, and every year they design special merchandise and release music exclusively to LPU members.
Fans first heard the new song, “Across The Line,” during online video episodes (”LPTV”). Originally entitled “Japan,” fans sought out the song for years, but the band had never released it. In response to fan feedback, the band decided to finish the song and make it available as a highlight of LPU9.
“The LPU is a movement,” says guitarist Brad Delson. “Their support of the band is inspiring. So we try to give back to them whenever we can. When we heard that they had been talking about ‘Across The Line,’ we knew we had to make it available for them.”
The LPU has enabled fans worldwide to interact with members of the band, meeting them at exclusive LP Underground meet & greet signings (held at almost every Linkin Park show), or chatting with them online at exclusive chats through the fan club members-only website, www.lpunderground.com. In past years, the band has offered free concert tickets to fan club members, cast them as extras in a music video (“Faint”), and flown them out for rehearsal sessions. The site also provides fans with exclusive news, presales, contests, photos, video, and more. The fan club consistently strives to offer more to its members through website innovations, creative content, and engaging contests and giveaways. For more information, please go to www.lpunderground.com.
The full track listing for LPU9: DEMOS is as follows:
1 – “A-Six” (Original Long Version 2002)
2 – “Faint” (Demo 2002)
3 – “Sad” (”By Myself” Demo 1999)
4 – “Fear” (”Leave Out All the Rest” Demo 2006)
5 – “Figure.09” (Demo 2002)
6 – “Stick And Move” (”Runaway” Demo 1998)
7 – “Across The Line” (Unreleased Demo 2007)
8 – “Drawing” (”Breaking The Habit” Demo 2002)
9 – “Drum Song” (”Little Things Give You Away” Demo 2006)
Linkin Park is currently in the studio preparing a new album for release in 2010.
Nov
30
Chester Interview about Dead By Sunrise
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Nov
30
Chester Bennington, singer of Linkin Park and Dead By Sunrise, sponsors the campaign “Ink, Not Mink” by animal rights group PETA. With nakedness, he supports the rights of the animals
California (dek) - “Ink, Not Mink” - Color instead of mink. That’s the motto of Peta2.de-campaign in the fight against the fur industry. As naked godparent, Linkin Park and Dead By Sunrise front man Chester Bennington stands by the animal rights group.
True to the motto “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin, and Let Animals Keep Theirs”, Bennington presents himself on posters in PETA-manner, almost naked. Only his many tattoos adorn his upper body.
In a related interview, Chester Bennington clearly explains how important all creatures are to him. “I firmly believe in animal rights,” he states.
People had to understand what cruelty is behind the fur industry that kills animals by electrocuting them and in which animals experience a cruel death. “We need to show our respect … for all creatures of this world.”
Special thanks to Britta from Sunrise on Fire for translating this.
Nov
30
I just wanted to let you know that I also changed the Fan Fiction Archive and Citizens of Chester-land layout. I made a new ID for the Citizens of Chester-land site, I think it looks better than the other, and now I promise to work on your ID’s as soon as you join, if you had joined in the past please send us an e-mail again.
On the other hand, The fan of the month section is BACK after so long. If you applied before chester-land.com was shut down, you can apply again since I lost our old archive, so please apply again. If you have never applied, do it now, it’s very simple. Being the fan of the month will give you a banner too.
Nov
29
New Layout + More
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The site has a new look, a really simple header using a picture from PETA’s photoshoot. Using red, black and grey colors. I really hope you guys like it. I know the month isn’t over yet, but I had the chance to work on it, so I did it before I got busy.
While I was at it, I also changed our press archive and multimedia archive layouts. Check it out and let me know what you think. I’ll change our other networks eventually, and will add other sites to our network, so stay tunned. I really can’t wait to hear what you guys think.
Nov
28
Chester Thank You Message @ Inside the tour bus
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Nov
27
Dead By Sunrise in Paris Pictures Update
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I added a couple of new albums to our gallery. Thanks a lot to Fanlinkinpark02 and Dead By Sunrise FR for sending them to us, they are amazing.
- Quiksilver Tony Hawk Show Press Conference
- Chester and Ryan Oüi 102.3 Paris
Nov
26
College Times interview
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Chester did an interview with College Times. You can read it online at their website www.ecollegetimes.com!
Nov
25
Play Halo 3: ODST with Chester Bennington
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Chester Bennington, will play Halo 3: ODST with Xbox LIVE Gold Members in our Game With Fame. If you’re a Gold Member log in Tuesday, December 1 starting at 8:00 P.M. ET for the event. Send a friend request to the following Gamertag and be online half an hour before (7:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts:
* CBennington GwF






































