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With Linkin Park’s new album not due until January that cheeky chappie Chester Bennington has only gone and stolen his band’s thunder with a thoroughly decent stab at commercial rock in the shape of new boys Dead By Sunrise. And although this could never be an LP LP there’s more than enough here to keep fans of Bennington’s main employers more than happy.
While the vocals are unsurprisingly strong it’s the axe work of Orgy guitarist Ryan Shuck which shakes the whole DBS project up into a real rock frenzy. Tracks like Crawl Back In and Condemned are truly beefy but even the record’s lighter moments see Shuck toning it down to excellent effect, occasionally adding some uber cool synth action to the mix.
My Suffering is a truly outstanding song and the Linkin lads might just be wondering how they missed out on this one. Maybe their new record will answer that. For now there’s this.