Late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington's mid-'90s band Grey Daze will release Amends, featuring newly recorded music with remastered vocals from the group's long out-of-print and largely undiscovered catalog, on April 10th.
The band has also released a second single from the 11-song disc, called “Sickness,” accompanied by a music video. Band founder and drummer Sean Dowdell explained, “This is loosely based on a true story from when Chester was 15 years old. He was being bullied at school and one day suffered a real beating. That was the day I assumed a role as protector and almost older brother figure to Chester that has lasted since, even after his passing.”
The songs on Amends are taken mostly from the two albums Grey Daze released independently, Wake Me and No Sun Today. The surviving band members have reconstructed and reworked the songs with the help of guest musicians like Chester's 23-year-old son Jaime Bennington, Korn's Brian “Head” Welch and James “Munky” Shaffer, Bush's Chris Traynor and more, with the blessing of Chester's widow Talinda.
Bennington had been in talks with his fellow Grey Daze members about reforming the group for a performance prior to his death. After Bennington passed, drummer Sean Dowdell and Grey Daze members Mace Beyers and Cristin Davis decided to fulfill the reunion plans in the form of the album.
Bennington committed suicide in his Los Angeles-area home in July 2017, at the age of 41.