Linkin Park released new music video shortly before Chester Bennington's death news broke

Bennington's death falls on 53rd birthday of Chris Cornell, who killed himself in May.

Belmont Lay | July 21, 2017, 10:42 AM

Linkin Park released a new music video on the morning of lead vocalist Chester Bennington’s death.

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Their newest single Talking to Myself was released at 9.01am, before news of Bennington's death went public.

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In the song, Bennington addressed his history with substance abuse from the perspective of his wife.

“Tell me what I’ve gotta do/ There’s no getting through to you/ The lights are on but nobody’s home.” In the chorus he sings: “The truth is, you turn into someone else/ You keep running like the sky is falling/ I can whisper, I can yell/ But I know, yeah I know, yeah I know/ I’m just talking to myself.”

Bennington's death on Thursday, July 20, is suspected to be suicide. It fell on the day that would have been Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday.

Cornell, frontman of Soundgarden, had also committed suicide back in May 2017 just two months earlier.

Bennington and Cornell were close friends. They toured together in the late 2000s.

When Cornell died, Bennington sang Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at his memorial service.

Bennington also shared a tribute remembrance on Twitter for Cornell at that time. "I can't imagine a world without you in it," he wrote.