http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-park-singer-chester-bennington-dead-commits-suicide/

Chester Bennington of Linkin Park has committed suicide by hanging and was discovered this morning around 9 AM. Rest in peace, Chester, you will be missed.

Well... damn. :c

I'm so upset about it, but I understand why he did it. Today would have been Chris Cornell's birthday, and the two were very close friends...

I'm so so sad. I've stopped listening to LP after Minute to Midnight since they mostly drifted from their original genre. I've always connected to their music as they helped me get through in some dark moments of my life. Mike Shinoda and everyone else ... That's a blow. They were to be here in Canada in August. I'm just ... speechless. May he rest in peace. He has shed a light on my life and I'm grateful. I always will.

So so sad. Linkin Park were a part of my life since 2000. I wasn't a big fan of their later stuff but loved Chester's voice and the old songs so to say accompanied me through so many phases of my life.

R.I.P. Chester and thank you for your music. I hope you have found peace now.

I can't believe it's happened! I've just heard of his death and I couldn't feel more shocked. Many of LP's songs are among my personal favourites and losing such a person with such a unique voice is beyond tragic. I feel like crying right now... :'(

RIP Chester. You'll be dearly missed.

This is very sad... ;-; I loved LP and still have some of their older stuff I listen to on occasion...

R.I.P Chester!

Gutted. So sad for his family and friends, and music fans around the world.

RIP Chester :( :(

I'm devastated beyond words. I.. don't really know what to say. LP has been such a huge part of my life and Chester was... something else.

In case anyone wants to sob with me, I've written out my feelings here on Tumblr.

Rest in peace Chester. The world is a little darker place today.

I've spent the last hours listening to LP since I've heard the news... the lyrics seem even more meaningful now. So sad about this. Farewell, Chester...

RIP Chester </3 I wish I went to their concert where I live a month or so ago now...I wonder what will happen with the band :( I really didn't expect this at all :(

i'm honestly not okay right now, Linkin Park was one of the many bands i grew up with, and they stuck with me for a long time. i probably wouldn't have gotten through my teenage years unscathed if not for their music giving me an outlet to listen to, and this news just breaks my heart.

This is such sad news! :(

There were points in my life when I could not fall asleep unless I was listening to Linkin Park. Like many others, LP helped me. I'm so broken today. I can't even listen to LP, the first thing I did when I heard the news was listen to One More Light and I just cried harder. I'm trying to bury myself in chores and keeping my mind occupied. RIP

I didn't believe my brother when he told me, but after reading more into it I was upset to see it was true. So sad, and yet another victim of mental illness. I have always loved Linkin Park, and especially Chester's voice, I can't imagine what the band is going through.

Man this is...heartbreaking. Linkin Park got me through so many bad times when I was younger. Hell, they're honestly probably the only reason I'm even alive right now. I used to sit in my room and have these dark thoughts and the only thing that could drown them out was Hybrid Theory. I had to buy the CD twice cause I wore out the first copy listening to it so much.

This really feels personal, like I lost a close friend, and I just can't stop crying.

RIP Chester. I'm so sorry you couldn't escape your demons, but thank you for giving me the strength to face mine. </3

Chester and Linkin Park have helped me through a lot as well. Their lyrics and his passionate voice instantly resonated with me when I first became a fan a few years ago. I was so excited to see them live for the first time in two weeks and had just signed up for their meet and greet a few nights ago. To think I'll never see live, meet, or hear more from the goofball I've grown to love through social media makes me very sad. He was a beautiful person who impacted many lives and still had a lot to give, which makes it all the more tragic. Rest in peace, Chester.

it's so unreal. they just released a music video a few hours before this news. i remember listening to them a whole bunch when i was a kid. their lyrics have a totally different meaning now...

the sun will set for you...