10 Best Songs Released After The Singer Passed Away

9. Chester Bennington/Grey Daze – ‘B12’ (2020)

Before Linkin Park, before Hybrid Theory, before selling millions of records and headlining festivals the world over, Chester Bennington fronted Grey Daze. The band released two albums in the '90s before calling it a day after seven years together. Politics with record execs prevented Grey Daze from being more well-known and heard over the years - their music was absent online until only recently when it made its streaming debut.

Chester and Grey Daze co-founder Sean Dowdell started discussing a reunion in 2016. So, when Linkin Park were touring their last album ‘One More Light’, Chester instructed the rest of Grey Daze to start reworking old songs and once he was back from tour he’d re-record his old vocals.

Shockingly though, Chester took his own life in 2017. Sean and the rest of Grey Daze, with Chester’s family in mourning, started working on the Grey Daze project as a tribute to Chester. They completed the album ‘Amends’, made up of newly recorded instrumentals with Chester’s original '90s vocals/recordings.

On releasing Amends, the band said, “It was difficult, but healing. Everything we’ve done surrounding this release has been to honour Chester.”

The most striking song on the record is ‘B12’. Loaded with raw emotion, it’s energetically evocative and features Korn’s James ‘Munky’ Shaffer and Brian ‘Head’ Welch.

Chester wrote the lyrics to the song when he was only 12. It has fast rap verses at first and then morphs into a classic Chester chorus – it’s almost as if he’s doing his and Mike Shinoda’s vocals in one song. It’s defiantly nu-metal and an encapsulation of a young Chester Bennington trying to make it.