Linkin Park released a new music video on Thursday morning — only moments after lead singer Chester Bennington was found dead.
The video for “Talking to Myself” debuted at 9 am. According to police, an employee discovered Bennington’s body just before 9 am inside the singer’s Palos Verdes Estates home. He had hanged himself.
Bennington was 41 and leaves behind six children.
“Talking to Myself,” the third single off Linkin Park’s seventh studio album One More Light, is a plea to a loved one struggling with substance abuse. Bennington (who did not write the track) sings: “Tell me what I’ve gotta do / There’s no getting through to you / The lights are on but nobody’s home.”
The album also has songs with titles like “Nobody Can Save Me,” “Sorry for Now” and “Heavy.”
Bennington once revealed that he was sexually abused by an older male friend from the age of seven until he was 13 years old. The singer openly recalled years of drug and alcohol abuse.
Bennington took his life on what would have been the 53rd birthday of his friend Chris Cornell, who commit suicide earlier this year in a Detroit hotel room.
Linkin Park was due to hit the road next week for the One More Light tour, with stops in Toronto and Montreal in August and Vancouver in October.
Paramore’s Hayley Williams tweeted: “artists are ppl compelled to bring beauty into a world that can be so dark. makes sense then that artists are always conscious of darkness..... & maybe at times made more vulnerable by it? i don't know. life can be relentless.”
Watch the video for “Talking to Myself” below: