Dead By Sunrise formed

Dead By Sunrise formed in 2005 during Linkin Park’s break after the Meteora album cycle ended in September of 2004. According to Bennington, “I came up with a few songs that felt and sounded really good, but I knew they weren’t right stylistically for Linkin Park . They were darker and moodier than anything I’d come up with for the band. So I decided to work on them on my own rather than turn them over and have them transformed into Linkin Park tracks.” However, the foundation for Dead By Sunrise was laid much earlier, when future bandmate Shuck met Bennington during the recording of Linkin Park’s first album Hybrid Theory . In an interview, Shuck states that “I always used to go to his house and hear him play acoustic guitar. And I always thought to myself, ‘Oh my God, these are such good songs.’” Bennington performed Morning After, for example, acoustically at a few Linkin Park shows in 2001. According to Bennington’s wife at the time, Bennington would always play Morning After and Jane Says, another song that Chester performed acoustically at Linkin Park shows in 2001, during house parties.