Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Says Dave Grohl Helped Him Cope After Chester Bennington’s Passing

Mike Shinoda. Photo by Mairo Cinquetti/REX/Shutterstock (8871641ao)

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has spoken out about how Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has helped him to cope following the death of Linkin Park’s vocalist Chester Bennington in July last year.

Shinoda revealed the recovery will take time after losing someone who was close to you but added that seeing Grohl and how he created something from nothing helped inspire him.

“If I’m on the other side of that, and I see somebody doing well, for example Dave Grohl after Nirvana, seeing him do the thing and get back up and create Foo Fighters out of nothing, that’s a moment where you go, ‘It can be done.’ It feels heroic in a way,” he says.

Shinoda is set to release a full-length solo album called Post-Traumatic on June 15th.

He spoke about returning to songwriting after Bennington’s death.

“I think about eight days after Chester passed, I knew that if I didn’t get into the studio and start writing something soon, that my fear of doing it would just build and build and build,” Shinoda explains. “In the beginning, I was just writing anything just to be able to write… Just to do it and know I didn’t have to be scared to get into the room, and those eventually turned into serious songs.”