Linkin Park Will Release The Song "New" That Featured Chester Bennington

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JAKARTA - Linkin Park will release an unprecedented song, 'Friendly Fire', featuring the late Chester Bennington.

The band shared a teaser for the synthpop-inspired song on their social media, adding that the song was taken from a recording session for their last album, 'One More Light', which was released just two months before Bennington's death from suicide in 2017.

The footage, which seems to be part of its refractive, features a line of words: We're falling apart for no reason/We're pulling the trigger in a useless war/If we go back and go into the black/What are we fighting for?/ What are we fighting?/It's just friendly fire.

So far, there has been no confirmation of when the song will be released.

The existence of 'Friendly Fire' was first mentioned by Shinoda in 2020. We mix more [songs] than the [in] album that has been completed and we mix several other songs just to see if any of those songs will be included in any other release or whatever. [Or] If we could use them for B-side and it was 'Friendly Fire'," Shinoda said at the time to AltPress.

After sharing that the song was co-written by Jonathan Green's 'One More Light' collaborator, Shinoda added: 'I still like the song. Is it somewhere? Are we preparing 'Friendly Fire'? We didn't do it, did we?'

Fans then asked Shinode to release the unreleased song, and he replied: 'You really have to wait years to hear the song, FYI.'