Recording of debut album began

Recording of the band’s debut album began in October of 2008 after the album cycle for Linkin Park’s Minutes To Midnight was finished The band wrote a couple of new songs during this time, Inside Of Me , Condemned and also re-wrote already existing songs Fire and My Suffering . It’s unknown if more songs were written during this time period or if the band changed any other existing songs By late December of 2008, the album was done and ready to be recorded. Recording took place starting in January 2009. Working simultaneously on his solo album and Linkin Park’s next record, Bennington recorded Out of Ashes with producer Howard Benson and bandmates from Julien-K. Bennington wrote most of the songs on an acoustic guitar before working with his band to reshape the track into hard rock, a ballad, or even removing all rock influence and creating a synth-driven track. Linkin Park bandmate Mike Shinoda confirmed that Out of Ashes is “much more of a rock album [than Linkin Park’s albums].” Also of note, Bennington participated in all aspects of creating the record, including programming and production. Out of Ashes was described as grunge , pop rock , and punk rock by critics.