Linkin Park is holding onto at least one unreleased song featuring vocals from the band's late frontman Chester Bennington. The group’s Mike Shinoda recently spoke about that track, called “Friendly Fire,” which originated during the sessions for the band’s final album with Bennington, 2017's One More Light.
Speaking on a Twitch livestream, Shinoda recalled, “There was a song — a One More Light song . . . we mixed more songs than are present on the finished album and we mixed a couple other songs just to see if one of them would make the cut or whatever — if we could use it for a B-side and it was ‘Friendly Fire.'”
One viewer requested that the band just release the song right now, but Shinoda replied, “You literally are going to have to wait years to hear that song.” He also said, “I still love that song.”
Linkin Park fans have already received at least one posthumous song featuring Bennington. Prior to his death in July 2017, the singer contributed to “Cross Off,” which appeared on Anesthetic, the debut solo album from Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton.
Bennington's vocals can be heard on the album Amends, due this Friday (June 26th) from his pre-Linkin Park act Grey Daze. The group took vocal tracks that Bennington did for its two independent albums and re-recorded the music for the songs.
