Sun(rise) On Fire - Archive

Site is finally moved

2009-11-04T08:50:00.000-08:00

Sunrise On Fire is finally and completely moved to another server! You can now reach us at www.sunriseonfire.net.ms, go over to see the latest updates on Dead By Sunrise!

And don't forget to vote for DBS on FuseTV!

DBS to play KROQ's Almost Acoustic

2009-11-03T07:01:00.001-08:00

As LPLive mentions it, DBS are going to be a part of this year's Almost Acoustic set, referring to a tweet from Chester.
Unfortunately, I can't find any official date but I will keep you informed on it! :)

Sorry, for the late updates. I'm busy with working on the new layout, it took its toll :(

Site News - Good ones, this time

2009-11-02T16:04:00.001-08:00

So, now that our gallery is on another server, and available again, my computer works again, I started working on a new layout for Sunrise On Fire. Finally! I think I will finish it by next week. At least, I hope so...

And because someone was very curious about our new look (the color theme isn't very different from this one), I cut a part out of the new header to show you what you can expect from the upcoming layout. Here it is:

Let me know what you think! It's not much, I know but the best part I think... :)

Gallery is back

2009-11-02T04:50:00.001-08:00

Maybe some of you have noticed it already that our gallery is back online again! Go and say thank you to Matt for helping us whenever we're in trouble. You rock, dude!

So, the link is the same. There are only some pictures missing, the ones we uploaded last week. And, as mentioned in the last post, everybody who registered to the gallery last week has to register again, I fear.

In case there are still any issues, problems, concerns, whatever else, just let us know.

Thanks for your support!

Technical problem with our gallery

2009-10-30T09:32:00.000-07:00

Some of you might have noticed it already, our gallery is down again. This time, it's way more serious then the last time. Our host had to repair some servers and something went wrong. That's why you enter the gallery. Because everything is gone.

They promised to repair it this weekend, so we hope that we'll be able to upload everything again this weekend. So that you'll be able to enter the gallery on Monday again.
One thing just: All registrations that happened in the last few days are also gone. So you may have to register again.

We're very sorry for that!

ShockHound Interview

2009-10-28T13:50:00.000-07:00

New interview with Chester on ShockHound! Check it out here. Thanks to Allison!

SHOCKHOUND: What's the most personal song on this album for you?

BENNINGTON: Every single one of them is pretty personal, but I think the most important one for me is "Give Me Your Name.” I wrote that one for my [new] wife. We danced to that song at our wedding. I didn't write the song with the idea that it would make the album. I actually wrote it to play at our wedding, but it turned out to be a great song. "In The Darkness" is another one that is very personal for me. It's not necessarily about anything personal, but it's my song about making love and how that feels. At the same time there are songs like "Condemned" and "My Suffering" which talk about my love affair with feeling like shit, so to speak. There's a weird juxtaposition between some of the songs. Some of them have more of a deep, emotional thing, and some of them are directly about specific things like relapse or learning not to repeat the mistakes of your past relationship in a future relationship. Then there are songs that I tried to mess with a little bit lyrically because they dealt with the God and my personal feeling about God. Those were "Fire" and "Too Late". Some people kind of get squirmish when you're dealing with that subject matter, so I changed it up a little bit lyrically to make it more about a relationship between two people rather than a relationship between myself and my God.

New HQ Pictures

2009-10-28T12:00:00.000-07:00

I am done. I did it... finally. I added some more new pictures to our gallery.

You can find some new HQ's in the section of the U lalume Festival.
Special thanks to Joy Noyes for giving us the okay to post them here :)
You can also check out Joy's homepage here. She's pretty talented.

As well as some new pics from New York ;)
I want to thank digenger for letting us post the pics :)

Wanna see Dead by Sunrise live?

2009-10-28T06:52:00.000-07:00

Heres your chance.
CBO said that the guys will play at How The Edge Stole Christmas in Grand Prairie, TX on December 3rd. Other than Dead by Sunrise you can see Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Flyleaf, Sick Puppies and Janus. For more information, click here.

You can get tickets here, they go on sale this friday October 30th.

Several more updates around Dead by Sunrise

2009-10-27T09:17:00.000-07:00

I just found this two new "Out of Ashes" Promopictures. If you want to see them in fullsize, just check out our gallery by clicking on the picture ;) Thanks to PFF ♥

Just got this picture from my beloved friend Allison, she won a signed copy of "Out of Ashes" at the LPStreetteam contest. Awesome. If you have any Fan Pictures as well, just send them in to sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com

There are more pictures in our gallery, make sure to check them out ;)

Roxy, 10/19/2009
Chester + Julien-K
Ulalum Festival

Huge thank you to Chester-land and JoeyDC ;)

We also got te information that the next single from Dead by Sunrise will stream the german Radio's this friday, 30th october. When the video for "Let down" will be out is not out yes. As well Dead by Sunrise announced concerts in Germany in January, but no details so far.

"Let down" at Ulalume Festival

2009-10-27T08:58:00.000-07:00

Dead By Sunrise perform “Let Down” live from the Ulalume Festival.

More interviews with Dead by Sunrise

2009-10-27T08:48:00.000-07:00

Live Daily! Found this interview with Chester on LiveDaily. And also got the link from my great friend luvnLP, thank you love.

In 2005, while writing songs for Linkin Park [ tickets ]'s album "Minutes to Midnight," lead singer Chester Bennington [ tickets ] began penning tunes that were outside the realm of what the multi-platinum, two-time Grammy-winning band hoped to accomplish.

That laid the groundwork for Dead by Sunrise [ tickets ], Bennington's new project, whose debut, "Out of Ashes," hit stores Oct. 13. The set's first single, "Crawl Back In," was one of the most-added tracks at rock radio for four weeks spread across late August and early September.

Dead by Sunrise--Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh (from Orgy/Julien-K), bassist Brandon Belsky, drummer Elias Anda (also from Julien-K), and keyboardist Anthony Valcic--performed last week at MTV's first annual "Ulalume" Halloween festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, alongside Paramore, AFI and Kid Cudi. Their performance will air during a Halloween-themed week on MTV, MTV.com, mtvU, and mtvU.com.

Bennington spoke to LiveDaily via telephone from Beverly Hills, CA, about the timing surrounding the Dead by Sunrise album, the band's plans for a tour and the new Linkin Park album.

Why was now the time for Dead by Sunrise?

Interesting question. Now's a good time because I have time to do it. Starting a new band wasn't really something I planned on doing. The music is just kind of a little outside the spectrum of Linkin Park. So the songs kind of told me to do something different with them. In doing so, I have to work around Linkin Park's schedule. We started writing songs in summer of 2005. Then we worked for a few months, got a lot of the record done and then I stopped working on the record to go make [Linkin Park's] "Minutes to Midnight." We toured "Minutes to Midnight;" that sucked up three years. Now that that's over, we went back in the studio last year, finished making the record with Howard Benson, now we're putting it out. Linkin Park is in the studio working on our new record. If there's gonna be a time to do it with this record, this is the time. So I made it happen.

Were you writing songs specifically for Dead by Sunrise, or did you find you were writing songs that were not very appropriate for Linkin Park?

I wouldn't say they weren't appropriate. The guy in the last interview actually made a good point. He was like, "The Beatles made music all the time"--I'm not comparing us to The Beatles--"that was totally different than what they made in the past. It didn't really matter what style it was. They just made their records." I think that that's the case for us now in Linkin Park.

If I had started bringing these songs in the band now, they may have fit better into the idea of what we're doing in Linkin Park. At the time, close to four years ago, we weren't really in that frame of mind. We were still juggling the idea that we had to make hip-hop metal. When you write a Spanish-influenced song in 6/8 time with a little bit of swing and swagger, it doesn't really fit in the hip-hop realm with metal.

Once we got past that, we got over ourselves, and we were told by somebody we respect in Rick Rubin, that if you like the music and you think it's great, then you should be able to put it on your album. That opened our minds a lot in Linkin Park. The timing of this album was [that it] just happened at the time when it wasn't quite into the realm of what Linkin Park was ready to do. That's just the reason it worked out the way it has.

Do you plan on touring with Dead by Sunrise?

Yeah, we like to tour as much as we can. It's gonna be more difficult to tour with Dead by Sunrise than with Linkin Park, simply because Linkin Park is No. 1 and they take the highest priority. So if I need to go in the studio or if I need to go tour with Linkin Park, that's going to stop whatever Dead by Sunrise is doing. But I'm confident that we'll be able to do plenty of shows to go around and play as much as we can for people who are fans of Dead by Sunrise.

How did you come up with the title 'Out of Ashes'?

It just kind of seemed to fit how I feel about where I am today. There are times in people's lives where you have to go through and clean house. I feel like I've gone through one of those periods of time, coming out of the ashes, so to speak.

What was it like to work with Howard Benson?

Howard is actually a very cool guy, really fun to be around. He's smart. He's a noble kind of guy. It was really cool. He was very focused on the vocals and making the vocals pop on this album. So, he was cool. The guys I'm working with in Dead by Sunrise are all talented musicians and very talented in the studio, in terms of being engineers and producers. So when it came to record music, [Benson] was kind of like, "You guys do your thing. I trust you." So Howard and I spent most of the time working together, while the other guys worked in the studio on their own. It was kind of cool to have that freedom.

What do you think he brought out in the band?

Well, producers always come in and tell you whether they think a song is decent or not. A good producer will maybe push you to maybe change melodies or write better lyrics. Maybe there could be a better post-chorus musically. There's got to be some kind of build or dynamic in the music. That's what good producers do. When they come in and help bring a song to a life they didn't have before. That's what good producers do.

How long have you known the guys in Dead by Sunrise?

I've known Ryan and Amir for probably 10 years now, maybe more. We've been good friends for a really long time. They started a band called Julien-K. I met Brandon probably five or six years ago. It's very cool to be in a band with them. We get to hang out and make music together.

How's Linkin Park's next album coming along?

I always get kind of nervous answering questions like that. It's truly my opinion, but ... I am the luckiest motherf----r to be in this band. That's all I have to say. Just curiously, crazy good songs in the studio right now. It's kind of crazy. There's some magic happening in there. Something's happening with us and it's good.

There's also a great interview with Dead by Sunrise up at MTV.

"It's kind of funny, because I wrote a song, and I was positive it was a Dead by Sunrise song, and I was in the studio playing it, and [LP guitarist] Brad [Delson] goes, 'You are putting that down right now!' " he said. "And I was like, 'Well, apparently that's a Linkin Park song.' The song is called called 'F---ing Awesome,' by the way."MORE...

MTV Shows

The Gallery is back

2009-10-27T07:55:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!
The moving from our gallery is down and we're glad to let you know that you can check it out again.
I added some cool new pictures so make sure you stop by ;)

New Epicenter Pictures
Chester @ Rocksound - got them from Chester-land
"We need to talk" interview screenshots - Huge thank you to Chester-land
Dead by Sunrise at Jimmy Kimmel - Thanks to LPUnderground

There will be more as soon as I am able to upload again :( Hopefully soon...

Beverly Hills Royalty Monster Halloween Bash

2009-10-26T05:16:00.000-07:00

DBS are going to play at the Beverly Hills Royalty Monster Halloween Bash on 29th October. The event will take place at the club "My House" in Hollywood.
Here's an excerpt of press release:

Party like a rockstar with celebrity clientele guests -- Dead by Sunrise, Korn, Slash, Limp Bizkit, POD, Crazytown, Vanilla Ice, Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton, Jessica Alba, Gwen Stefani, Nick Canon, Ray J, Pitbull, Lil Kim, Lil Jon, Perez Hilton, Brody Jenner, Zac Levi, David Spade,Tom Green, Dennis Rodman, Chuck Liddell, Aubery O'Day, Laura Prepon, Tila Tequila, Wilmer Valderrama, Scott Caan and Simon Rex, just to name a few. Read full press release

Source: LPTimes

Dead by Sunrise @ Jimmy Kimmel

2009-10-23T08:51:00.000-07:00

Amir posted a link to a video of the band performing "Crawl back in" at Jimmy Kimmel, earlier this week. So if you have any videos of this gig, just let us know via mail at sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com

I'll add some pictures later on ;)

Review Epicenter

2009-10-23T08:42:00.001-07:00

We found this old review from the Epicenter Show at Best Music Live

Pomona, CA - The Fairplex was the scene of some great hard rock this afternoon. Begining with Street Sweeper Social Club, Tom Morello and Boots Riley kicked it off like only they can. Also happy to report they are some of the coolest and most down to earth guys you will meet as was the case in the media room. Did anyone happen to notice that Tom played a small roll in the first Iron Man movie? Whip out your blu-ray and watch the scenes when Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr) was held prisoner. There were 2 stages, the Monster Energy Stage, which hosted the following bands, After Midnight Project, Sonny, Paper Tongues, Aesop Rock, and Atmosphere and the Main Stage that hosted Street Sweeper Social Club, Hollywood Undead, Atreyu, Wolfmother, Alice In Chains, Linkin Park, Dead by Sunrise (brief 3 song set) and Tool. The "fire pit" during Tool's set was interesting because apparently moshing while lighting your clothes on fire is really the only way to do it. That is of course if you are looking for 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Have not heard if anyone got hurt, no news is good news right? Real men of genius out there.

Setlist from the Roxy gig + new Interviews with Chester

2009-10-23T08:33:00.000-07:00

Lplive posted the Setlist of the Roxy Gig as well as some informations.

West Hollywood, California
The Roxy Theatre
19th October 2009

Setlist:
01. Crawl Back In
02. Condemned
03. The Morning After
04. Fire
05. Let Down
06. Walking In Circles
07. Too Late
08. The End Of The World
09. My Suffering
10. Inside Of Me
11. 20 Eyes (The Misfits cover)

Show Notes:
- Chester started to sing too early on 'Crawl Back In', but corrected himself.
- Chester announced during the show that fans who sent him a "tweet" on Twitter would get free tickets to the Jimmy Kimmel performance a few days later.

Other Notes:
- This was the first Dead By Sunrise show with an official LPU Meet & Greet.
- All other five members of Linkin Park were present in the crowd.

LPTimes added two new Interviews with Chester, one with USA Weekend and one with AfroJacks

From classic rockers such as Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton to Jack White and Dave Grohl today, musicians have long had side projects in addition to their usual bands. The latest to moonlight with another group is Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who teamed with members of Orgy and Julien-K to form Dead By Sunrise. The new band issued its debut album, Out of Ashes, this week, and our Brian Truitt says the songs — some of which deal with Bennington’s own struggles with divorce as well as drug and alcohol addiction — are darker, more dynamic and less hip-hop-influenced than Linkin Park’s. Brian talked with Bennington, 33, right after a sound check on Wednesday, so read below for their conversation and check out a music video for the new single, Crawl Back In.

Is it neat to have another debut album come out? Most musicians only get one.
It is pretty awesome. This one was as nerve-wracking as when [Linkin Park’s debut] Hybrid Theory came out. It is really cool to not know what’s going to happen.

Do you wonder how Linkin Park fans will embrace these new songs, especially since they’re so personal?
All around, stepping outside of something as big as Linkin Park, one thing is that expectations are really high. When you do something different, a lot of people wonder why or is it going to be good. In terms of the lyrics, the fact that I’m not lying about what the songs are about in press and being really open to what they’re about, that freaks me out a little more than anything else. To be open and honest about things, to put your whole dysfunction out there so people can see how raw you really are, that’s something I really didn’t think through so much. And 200 interviews later, this is what everybody’s focusing on.

Because your voice is so distinctive, is there a worry that someone not in the know may think these are a bunch of new Linkin Park songs?
Yeah, it is, actually. I know my voice has a very distinct sound and when I sing, I sound like myself, no matter what. That’s why I really wanted to make sure that I didn’t change too much from the original versions of the songs in terms of style. These songs are grungy, and some of them are kinda punky and pretty straightforward in terms of the rock element. That’s the thing that gives DBS our unique quality that’s different from Orgy and Linkin Park. In doing so, naturally my vocal style lends itself to the style of the song, so even though I sound like myself, it also sounds like I’m singing a little differently. You put all that together, and it equals a record that doesn’t sound like Linkin Park.

When you were younger, you grew up on Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots. Did you go back and listen to those kinds of bands when you were figuring out what kind of sound you wanted to create?
No. I actually don’t listen to much music at all when I’m writing. I tend to write songs that sound like what I’m listening to. That in itself turns me off and bothers me. Usually when I’m writing, which is all the time, I don’t really listen to too much music from other people, and the style of stuff I like is so different from the style of stuff that I actually write that typically I don’t have to worry. I’m not going to write a song like the Metrics, I don’t sound like Phoenix, not too much of my stuff sounds like Depeche Mode. But a lot of my stuff is grungy, so anything that lands in the grunge era, yeah, you could probably make a connection to. But that’s the stuff I like to write and the stuff I listen to the most.

It seems a lot more musicians these days have side projects — for example, your own Linkin Park bandmate Mike Shinoda has Fort Minor, and Jack White is in three bands at the same time. Being on the frontlines, do you have any insight? Is it cool to have side projects?
I don’t if it’s cooler – I just think maybe bands are more comfortable with themselves. I know for me, if I felt anyone in Linkin Park were at all not happy with me doing this, I wouldn’t do it. I would have found a place for the songs somewhere eventually, and maybe not doing a completely whole other band. The Foo Fighters probably don’t have to worry about not being the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl goes around and plays with Queens of the Stone Age and he’s now doing something with John Paul Jones and Josh Homme, but they know he’s going to come back and do another Foo Fighters record. And it’s kind of his band, too. [Laughs] Jack White can do whatever he wants because he’s going to make another White Stripes record, he’s gonna do more Raconteurs. A lot of bands are doing it because they maybe are communicating better within the group, or maybe they just don’t give a [fudge].

You have four kids, the oldest of whom are 12 and 13. Did you try out the new album on them to see what they thought?
Family’s tricky because they’re always going to tell you that they like it. But sometimes kids can be extremely honest. My wife is a really good gauge of honesty, too — she’ll tell me if she doesn’t like something.

In the next year, you’re planning to tour with Dead By Sunrise and finish a new Linkin Park record. Do you thrive on that kind of busy schedule or do you steel yourself to not being home for a while?
Even though I am pretty busy, I feel like I do make sure that I spend enough time at home – well, I guess it’s relative. I try to spend as much time as I can with my family. Whether my kids feel like I’m at home enough, that’s for them to say. But at the same time, they’re the most important thing in the world to me and I definitely do not want to take away from that too much. I’m at home as much as I’m gone.

The Fro got 4 questions in with ex-Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington and his new band Dead By Sunrise.
Dead By Sunrise is Bennington, Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh, formerly of Orgy and current Julien-K members, Brandon Belsky, Elias Andra, and Anthony "FU" Valcic. "It was just me writing the lyrics this time around, so I was very straight to the point, very forward, and very personal with the lyrics for this record," Bennington says of his first endeavor outside Linkin Park. "I got to the point where I thought, 'Okay, it's time to be real.'"
The album Out of Ashes is out today.
FROMAN: Dead by Sunrise has more of a metal feel to it than Linkin Park, is this a sound you are looking to pursue?
DEAD BY SUNRISE (CHESTER): I wouldn't say it's metal so much...I think it has more of a grungy sound to it, but there are metal elements to the record, and that's a style we also like.
FROMAN: Everyone has a couple guilty pleasure songs mine is Boz Scaggs- Lido Shuffle, I love that dumb ass song. What's your favorite guilty pleasure band/song?
CHESTER: You Spin Me Right 'Round – Dead Or Alive
FROMAN: If you were to go to the P section in the artist list on your ipod, what would the first artist that comes up?
CHESTER: Proxy
FROMAN: Out of all the years of being a musician what was your favorite year?
CHESTER: This one by far.

Several Updates around Dead by Sunrise

2009-10-23T07:57:00.000-07:00

I found serval updates at our beloved Partnersite Chester-land, and I want so share them with you too :)

We start with a review from the show at the Roxy.

"Condemned" gave Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh the space to cut through gnashing choruses with a direct distortion assault. Their grungey and guttural playing perfectly contrasts with Bennington's croon. Before "Fire," Chester let out a big smile, "Welcome to our very first show in Los Angeles! What a fuckin' beautiful moment to share." "Fuckin' beautiful" is the only way to adequately describe the ethereal echo pulsating through "Fire." It shows just how diverse Dead By Sunrise can get, and it also sparked a big sing-a-long. MORE

I will also add some pictures to our gallery later on :)

There will be some screenshots from the "We need to talk" interviews with Ryan and Chester in our gallery as well as Chester-land posted another great interview with Chester from Rocksound.
I will add Screenshot of this too ;)

Loveline Interview Download/"We need to talk"

2009-10-21T06:49:00.000-07:00

You can now download the Loveline "interview" with DBS, the first part is missing. So if anybody out there has this part, let us know!
Thanks to Julien-K Germany for their post! ;)

And there a three videos, showing Chester and Ryan. They have to answer a few spontaneous questions, it's very funny. :D

Source: Julien-K Germany

New LPTV episode

2009-10-21T05:33:00.000-07:00

There's a new LPTV episode, very funny I think. It shows the band rehearsing for the Las Vegas show, as well as a part of the show.

You can either watch it here, if the widget doesn't work for you try it on youtube :)

Sorry for the "late" update and that there are still no changes to the site but my PC broke down on Sunday, repairing it took about two days so I couldn't work on anything (and anything else is gone, btw). So, sorry for that!

Site Update

2009-10-18T07:59:00.000-07:00

The last stories are added and you can read them here. You should really read them, they're great! And because of that, I want to thank everyone who sent us their story, it was a nice experience to read all your thoughts and feelings about the release. Thanks for sharing!

The other thing, I want to announce is that we're moving to another server, finally! I'm not just saying it, it's true (since we've been telling it for days now...). Perhaps, you won't be able to visit our gallery but I promise that it'll be back up soon. I hope we're done by wednesday. Back with a new look, our gallery and a message board. And maybe some contests... we'll see.

Las Vegas

2009-10-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

New pictures from the Las Vegas gig, found them at LPTimes.

New Interview with Chester at Herald Sun

2009-10-17T05:31:00.000-07:00

Herald Sun has a new interview with Chester about Dead by Sunrise.

Linkin Park's singer delves into the depths of his depravity with a side band, but Chester Bennington's finding things are very different when he's the one in charge.

Chester Bennington has a taste of power and it's making him nervous.
The Linkin Park singer has taken temporary leave from his multi-platinum safe haven to try his luck leading his own band, Dead By Sunrise.
And he's finding things are different when you're in charge.
"In Linkin Park I have a role I play - I come in, I hear music, I can say whether I like something or not, but I leave it up to the guys who play the instruments to do their thing and work through the motions of writing the music," Bennington says.
"Then, once they get something really dope, I do my job - I write some lyrics, I make melodies.
"In Dead By Sunrise, I'm really playing more of an all-round bandleader position, where I'm writing the songs, I'm dictating a lot of the style, but I'm letting everybody insert their opinions or give their feedback or do things the way they might think is cool. So it's really different for me to have my fingers in everybody's soup, so to speak."

But the position of bandleader doesn't sit all that easily with him.
"It makes me kinda nervous. If this doesn't do well, it's because my songs aren't good, because these are the songs I brought in. That's reality," he says.
"So that's a little frightening, to think that's a possibility. But I really feel like we've made a good record and so far the people who have heard it like it. Unless everybody's blowing smoke up my ass, which I hope they aren't."
Dead By Sunrise (or DBS as Bennington is already calling it, just as he calls his other band LP), has been a long time coming.
Bennington began working on a solo project in Linkin Park downtime in 2005.
By the time he was promoting that band's most recent album, 2007's Minutes to Midnight, Dead By Sunrise had a name and had become a band - the two integral cogs of which are former Orgy members Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh.
But it's taken until now to get Dead By Sunrise's album, Out of Ashes, out of the studio and out of storage.
"It feels like we've been working on this thing forever," Bennington says with just a little understatement.
Though there's no chance of hearing the band and not recognising it as the work of "that Linkin Park guy", it has its differences.
It's a far more straight-up rock proposition for a start. And though Bennington's lyrics in Linkin Park often need to tell a story in tandem with what the band's MC Mike Shinoda is writing about, in Dead By Sunrise Bennington was free to shovel his own dirt.
"People will get a little bit more of a personal glimpse into my life and maybe see the kind of songwriter I am," he says.
It's not about being honest for the first time - he's always done that.
"I've always been pretty up front, especially lyrically, with my music. I think that's the one real similarity between LP and Dead By Sunrise."
On this album, Bennington is a cathartic kind of songwriter. The band's name and the album's title refer to his descent into, and his eventual rise out of, a period in which he was doing - as he puts it in PC terms - a lot of partying.
He was self-destructing, he was addicted to booze and various other substances, and his first marriage was falling apart (he divorced in 2005).
"I've seen the devil in a smile, I've found salvation in a vial, my happy ending exists only in my dreams," Bennington sings on My Suffering.
"When I was going through it, I was actually trying to hide it - at least in my mind I was trying to hide it. I don't know if I did a very good job of hiding it," he says. "But I didn't want everyone to know how bad I'd really gotten. So a lot of the more revealing stuff was written afterwards, looking back, like 'OK, I'm cool with this now, I can handle being more open about my experiences over the past couple of years'.
"So that was really freeing for me. It was really interesting to look back and have that kind of perspective."
But some of the songs were written he says "while I was going through all the craziness . . . stuff that had nothing to do with that downfall, the downward spiral kind of thing".
Nowadays, of course, Bennington is happily remarried with a "litter of children".
The four kids in his house not so long ago became five - "One of my nieces moved in with us, which is pretty cool. So I guess I did acquire a 14-year-old girl somewhere along the line . . ."
It makes one wonder what his wife, Talinda, makes of all the darkness on Out of Ashes.
"At first it might have been a little disarming," Bennington says of his wife's reaction. "Like, 'Do you really want everybody to know all this stuff?'
"Honestly, what do I really have to hide?
If I can't be honest about what I'm experiencing and about my life, then what am I going to write about? Make up stuff?
If you do it tastefully and you do it in a way that's not like pornographic, if it doesn't come across as being dirty and kind of creepy, then I think that's OK."
But was it ever coming across as being dirty or creepy?
"No," Bennington says with a laugh. "I'm totally 100 per cent pure, never done anything wrong or weird in my life."
Though tearing out his heart in his Dead By Sunrise songs unburdened him, Bennington says it wasn't what saved him.
"The biggest epiphany for me during this period was realising how much value I had put into the stuff I had. That was the hardest part for me, discovering I had actually associated my success with the things I had accumulated, like money and cars and houses, things like that.
"When that's all gone, when that all disappeared, I kinda felt like maybe I was no longer successful, and I felt like a failure. And that was really tough to feel that way.
"That was really the beginning of the cascading downfall of my mental state for a little while. Then I got my s--- together and pulled myself out of it, with the help of my friends and my family and my beautiful wife."
These days, Bennington counts success as just living. "Success is if you can make it through life - you've figured something out, you know what I mean?" he says with a laugh.
"I'm still doing what I love to do, I get to be with my family as much as I want to be, I get to work whenever I feel like working, and I get to stop working when I'm over it.
"I don't have to get up and go to a job I hate every day, like a lot of people have to do to pay the bills. So I'm totally fine with that."
His other job, Linkin Park, is still simmering away in the background.
They've already been writing for a follow up to Minutes to Midnight, and their singer is more than positive about its direction. "We're always trying to do something that's different from what we've done before, and now we finally have the balls to do it," Bennington says.
"We're in a place where we're writing a lot and a lot of it's really good."
But it's unclear when any of that new Linkin Park music will emerge and Bennington will have to put Dead By Sunrise on the shelf.
"Get back to me in a year and I'll let you know how this is all working out," he says.
"I'm just starting to put all this stuff together and figure out how I can work on Linkin Park and tour with Dead By Sunrise and manage to be home enough to spend time with my kids so they don't feel like I'm a big jerk who always leaves the house."
His Linkin Park mate Shinoda at least has some wisdom to pass on, having been through this side-project thing himself with his hip hop-flavoured Fort Minor album The Rising Tied in 2005 (while Bennington was using the downtime to, ahem, party).
It wasn't a bad album, but it didn't do big business. So Shinoda has helped Bennington temper any grand expectations.
"He's given me a lot of good advice," Bennington says. "Don't go out there expecting to be treated like you're Linkin Park, which I think a lot of the guys in the band may assume - 'We're gonna go out there and have another project and it's gonna be HUGE!'
"I appreciate that. Mike is one of the coolest people I've ever known. He's one of my best friends. I love him to death, he's an amazing guy, super-talented, so anything he tells me, I pretty much listen to."
So what are Bennington's expectations for Dead By Sunrise?
"It just became this thing that is something pretty special for me. So all I really care about is that people, when they get the album, that they like the album from beginning to end," he says.

Dead By Sunrise Listening Parties in the UK

2009-10-17T05:16:00.000-07:00

There will be a number of Dead By Sunrise listening parties throughout the UK this weekend! Fans will be able to listen to the album, and also have the chance to win some DBS shirts! Times and locations are below:

Friday, Oct 16 - Sheffield, Drop @ The Corporation (from 9.30pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Newcastle, Legends (from 9.00pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - London, Chinese Karaoke Bar St Moritz (from 10.00pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Birmingham, The Academy (from 9.30pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Nottingham, Rock City (from 9.00pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Manchester, Jilly’s (from 9.00pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Liverpool, Krazy House (from 9.00pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Glasgow, The Cathouse (from 10.30pm)
Saturday, Oct 17 - Glasgow, Voodoo @ The Cathouse (from 5.00pm) - Under 18’s

If you can’t make it out to one of these events, UK fans can still pick up some Dead By Sunrise merch HERE!

And I also added screencaps of the Letterman gig, you can find them here!

Out of Ashes Release Day

2009-10-17T04:55:00.000-07:00

We posted this little video from Chester right before their gig at the Letterman show.
I just wanted to let you know that I added some nice screencaps of it on the Sun(rise) on Fire gallery, thank you very much for making them to Chester-land.

If you watch the video closely you can sneak into his shirt and look at his new Tattoo ;)

Upcoming LPlive Interview/Winkin Park Update

2009-10-16T08:24:00.000-07:00

There's going to be another interview by LPLive! They're planning on doing an interview with the art director of OOA's art work. And they are asking you to post your questions! :D
To do that, I think you have to register to their message board which I think is worth it (thinking of what a great site LPLive is).

I promised to keep you up-to-date about Winkin Park. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here a quick explanation:
Winkin Park is a Linkin Park Wikipedia done by fans and it only contains stuff about Linkin Park and LP-related things. Everyone can help by writing articles, correcting them or adding facts.
We're in contact with the owner of the LPWikipedia, so he informed us about changes to the site. The latest change is the English version of Winkin Park. And therefore, he needs contributors. If you're interested, you can either contact the webmaster or tell us (by commenting) that you want to help him out and we'll let him know about it.

Beautiful Scans of Sonic Seducer Magazine

2009-10-16T07:40:00.000-07:00

Sandra from our partner site made some nice scans of the article on DBS in the latest issue of a german music magazine called Sonic Seducer. There's this article in that issue and a (kind of weird and ugly) poster of Chester. Don't get me wrong, the picture is nice but the background is weird. ;) And DBS is on the cover of the magazine. Go and get it if you're able to, it's out now!

Here are the scans; all credit goes to Sandra! ;)

I will post a translation later ;)

Source: Rob and Chester Fansite

At Music for Relief with Team Shinoda and Team Phoenix

2009-10-14T11:47:00.000-07:00

As you know we're also supporting Music for Relief so I want to post this cute message from Mike Shinoda and Phoenix.

Find more videos like this on Music For Relief

Someone else who's "working" for Music for Relief is Mike's wife Anna... so I'll post her last Journal entry here too.

I just spent another awesome Saturday morning planting trees with TreePeople: an environmental nonprofit organization here in Los Angeles. I love gardening and occasionally volunteering with TreePeople gives me a great opportunity to get my hands dirty while adding some much needed trees all over Los Angeles County. This morning we planted 35 trees in a park in Sun Valley. The trees were planted near an field area that is used for sports. Although small now (around 6 feet tall, with skinny trunks and boney sticks as branches) eventually they will be towering with thick, leafy canopies! I love to imagine how children and adults will enjoy the shade and beauty that these trees will bring to their park.

Next Saturday, October 17th, from 9am- 1pm, Music for Relief will be teaming up with TreePeople to reforest an area of Sylmar that was devastated by the 2008 wildfires. If you are in the Los Angeles area and would like to come plant with Music for Relief, register online at http://www.treepeople.org/million-trees-la-park-planting-0

Dead by Sunrise @ Letterman

2009-10-14T11:01:00.000-07:00

We already posted that JoeHahn.org has some awesome pictures from the guys at Letterman and now I want to post you the performance, so here you go :)

We also got some great pictures from the Las Vegas show from Melissa, thank you again, girl ;)

I also got another interview from Ryanne where Chester talked about "Out of Ashes"
Im posting it here without any further words.
Found it at 102.1 the Edge.

The debut album from Dead By Sunrise, called Out Of Ashes, features some of the most personal lyrics ever written by singer Chester Bennington. A number of the songs were inspired by Bennington's struggles with his own psychological demons as well as drugs and alcohol. Bennington told us that his addiction to alcohol reached its peak after a divorce from his first wife left him emotionally and financially drained: "I lived on alcohol. It was either beer, or Jack and Coke, or Jack Daniels in a pint glass with ice. And then it got to the point where my wife said to me about seven months after we got together, she goes, 'I don't think there's been a day since I've known you that you haven't drank.' And I was like, 'What are you talking about? That's crazy' -- as I'm drinking a Jack and Coke. That was where my life went."

Bennington told us that during the divorce proceedings, he went from living in a mansion to a 700-square-foot apartment, and that all his money was wiped out.

Out Of Ashes was released on Tuesday (October 13th) and features the single "Crawl Back In."

Dead By Sunrise will play at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on Wednesday night (October 14th), and the Roxy in Los Angeles on October 19th.

Letterman/Show update/Review

2009-10-14T04:08:00.000-07:00

The band was at last night's Letterman Show. There are some great pictures of it over at JoeHahn.org, and there's a video of Chester getting ready for the performance on the band's Facebook. You can download the video on LPTimes.

DBS will play at the Holiday Havoc 2009 on Dec 12. Get your tickets here to see them play at the Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas (pre-sale starts on Oct, 15 at 10 am).

Also, there's a pretty nice review by Jas on her site, LPTimes. It's an honest and great review, I recommend you to read it ;)

Another info on this site:

There'd be some difficulties browsing through this site and the gallery in the next couple of days. The server on which our gallery is hosted on currently, has problems, so we'll move this site to another one. Hopefully, we're done with it by next week, including a new look for Sunrise On Fire ;)

Interview with Chester at Aquarian

2009-10-13T09:47:00.000-07:00

Sandra from R&CFansi posted this interview with Chester at Aquarian.

The record is so well rounded; you really get something new from it with each listen. The sense of darkness and deep disappear is immediately striking, but there’s also the pure rock elements, the anger, a few great love songs, and acceptance. What contributed to that, were the songs written over a long stretch of time and so you had all these emotions to draw from?

The record was written over a long period of time, because when we started the record it was late 2005 or mid-2005, so I started writing it then and we worked till end of the year. Then I started working on Minutes To Midnight. So I took the next three years off basically from working on the record [Out Of Ashes]. After that, I started picking it back up again after we finished touring for Minutes To Midnight.

I had a bunch of new songs, I wrote other new songs in the process of recording with Howard Benson. So there are phases of writing in different periods over the last four years. A lot had happened in that time, you can imagine, a lot of things have happened to yourself in four years, so there’s plenty of stuff to draw from. Some of these songs are about when I met my wife and fell in love with her. That’s where the love songs come from. At the same time, I was having tough times in the middle of a long, drawn out divorce that was draining and pretty much put me on a downward spiral just because it was so…there was so much going on during that period of time, that you get songs like ‘My Suffering’ and ‘Condemned,’ and the heavier, darker stuff was all derived from the phases of that experiences. But yeah, there was a lot going on.

Yeah, because an outsider looking in on you could say, ‘Oh, Chester is in Linkin Park, and he has Club Tattoo, his life must be a dream.’ So the depths of despair on the record are shocking.

My life is a dream, but unfortunately, I am an asshole sometimes. I can be very selfish or my perspectives can be off, but there were a lot of really stressful things that happening over that period of time. Like waking up one day and having a lot of money and a big house, and a year later, not having a single dime and living in a seven square foot apartment in Santa Monica. That can make you go, ‘Okay, none of this stuff is actually going to be here for very long.’ That freaked me out, and that spun me into a place of like drinking every day. Kind of like, ‘How did this happen? All I did was not want to be married anymore and now, I have nothing.’

It was kind of crazy, but the thing that kept me going through the whole process was that I did fall in love again. I did find myself, because I knew that I had a lot to live for. Like you were saying, I do have this really blessed life. I do have Linkin Park, I do have Club Tattoo, I have a beautiful wife and a beautiful family, and all this great stuff. I put too much focus on the materialist things in life like money and houses. Yeah, families, everybody has got one and some suck, I kind of have a mixture of both, but I really consciously understand how much value I had placed on things that didn’t really matter. It was pretty tough and that’s what the record was inspired from. It was a combination of all those things.

Hence the title?

Right (laughs). I torched the life I had and started a new one.

How did you meet up with the guys in the band?

Well, Ryan, Amir and myself have been friends for ten years or maybe more. We met when Orgy was on its second record, Vapor Transmission, we [Linkin Park] were recording Hybrid Theory. We were working in studio called NRG, and there are multiple studios that bands can work in, and Ryan heard me screaming some parts I was working on for the record. He came walking down the hall and was like, ‘Who are you? And what are you doing here?’

He was very funny, and I told him who I was and honestly, like an hour later, we were best friends. We’ve spoken at least once a week since then. So when I was writing songs, after Meteora was finished, Ryan had heard me play some of these songs, and he kind of gave me the push to convince Linkin Park that they weren’t Linkin Park songs, which obviously they aren’t or do something else with them. I thought about that, he didn’t say, ‘with me,’ he said, ‘with them.’ It was going to be my solo album, and I was going to do pretty much everything that I could with the exception of play drums, and it very quickly turned into Ryan and Amir asking if they could manipulate the song structures or maybe playing things a little different. I just gave them full reign, ‘You guys can do whatever you want to the songs.’ That’s kind of how it started, and I knew the rest of the guys in the band from them being in Julien-K. The other half of the band, they are engineers or producers, so they are all working behind the scenes, most of them and we came together through friendship.
A few years ago, on a Family Values tour you did a duet with Scott Weiland and you easily went toe to toe with him. I realized that you weren’t only a great vocalist, but you’re a great singer. That’s really evident on this record, because you can really hear your range.

In Linkin Park, the thought process is like me and Mike share half percent of everything, so if I am doing stuff that only I could do in the band, then it kind of restricts us. No one else in Linkin Park is a vocalist, so we can’t do three part harmonies or anything like that.

Whereas in Dead By Sunrise, I have Ryan, I have Brandon, Elias, and they have all been singers in other bands before, so I have a pretty good arsenal who can do three part harmonies with me. Also this is probably the real truth, Howard Benson is just like, ‘I don’t give a fuck. This is your record, so we are just going to do it. People want to hear you sing.’ So he really kind of pushed the envelope in a lot of ways. It wasn’t just singing a harmony to a part, it was singing a harmony and then doing harmonies to harmonies which separate sections that cross in different ways and layering those. It was very complicated—it was the most layering I have ever done on any record. I think that it’s something that will really set it part from sounding like a Linkin Park record.

What was the song selection process like? For instance, ‘Morning After,’ which is also a great song isn’t not on the record?

That was done, because I already released ‘Morning After’ on the Underworld soundtrack. I felt that if I put that on the record, it would kind of be cheating. So we basically took some songs that didn’t quite make the cut, and we’re reissuing, because the version that is on Underworld II is kind of a remix, it has some guitars taken out, and a more danceable beat to kind of fit the mode of the soundtrack a little more. This is more of a direct, straight rock version, and I believe that is actually going to be on the record if you get it as an import from Japan or some parts of Europe. So if people want that on the Dead By Sunrise record, [there’s] that, and we did a cover of the Misfits’ ‘20 Eyes’ like as extras.

Why that song in particular?

Well, I actually started playing that song when I was in a cover band called Bucket of Winnies for a little while. I play it with Bucket of Winnies and Camp Freddy sometimes, it’s just fun to go play with a bunch of guys and play cover songs. So we started playing ‘20 Eyes,’ we recorded it and we really liked it. There’s nothing we’ll ever be able to do with it, so we thought that this was kind of good way of letting people have it.

You’re playing the MTV Halloween gala, is that the launch of a huge tour?

We’ve actually kind of gone back and fourth a little bit on how we wanted to approach touring. I was thinking festivals, maybe a couple of touring bands, and then I felt like I don’t want to do that. Maybe next year after the band has been around for awhile we could do that, but I really want to go play for people. Have their faces really close and loud and sweaty and right in people’s faces, and have them see the band in that way at first. I really want to build fans in a more grassroots way, not just because I’m in Linkin Park [and] the other guys have been in Orgy that we deserve to go play these amazing tours. I think we really need to earn our place. The goal is to go out and get people to fall in love with the band the old fashioned way.

Are you especially eager to do that, because it seems with Linkin Park, you guys just skyrocketed to the top?

I just feel like it’s the right thing to do. I feel like I don’t want to take Linkin Park fans for granted, and I know that the other guys don’t want to take Orgy fans for granted. I feel like hopefully, they will like this music that we’re doing, but those are fans of those respective bands, and we can’t just like leech off that.

It really feels like the right thing to do, and I actually if there is anyone else in the band who put in a little more time before things took off for Linkin Park, I have been doing this since I was fourteen. I made my first record when I was 16-years-old. I was in a band [Grey Daze] for seven years before I was in Linkin Park. We played with hundreds of national acts, and by the time we were finished and broke up, we were drawing anywhere from 1000-2000 people every one to two weeks.

That’s a pretty big deal for a band that’s never going to go anywhere. That was frustrating to me, so I feel like I have paid my dues. I don’t feel like I need to go out there and prove that, but I do think that it’s important not to just be like, ‘Oh, I am in my famous band, I can go play arenas,’ that’s ridiculous. ‘Or I deserve to have this great support slot just because I am Chester.’ It doesn’t make much sense to me.

Getting to the actual songs on the record, ‘Fire’ sounds like an open letter to someone who has passed.

That song took a few different lyrical changes. It started out one way that was really like a sad story using interesting metaphors and that’s where the name ‘Fire’ came from. The lyric that inspired the title was, ‘There’s a fire in our hearts that’s the reason why the tears keep falling, to put out the fires that our hearts are starting.’ That’s where it came from, [but] the melodies didn’t quite seem to fit. So I started over, and kind of just ran with that, and went with a more spiritual path of getting through the tougher times.
Some people may look at that song and just say, ‘Oh he must have wrote that about someone who passed on.’ Or, ‘Wow that’s really sad.’ Or some people may see it as a spiritual thing, looking up at the heavens, and you know that there is something greater than yourself that’s with you all the time. This is probably one of those songs that is written with a Linkin Park sort of a touch, because it’s more open in general.

Songs like ‘Condemned’ and songs like ‘Inside of Me’ are pretty straightforward—there is no question as to what those songs are about. This one the fact that it can be seen in so many different ways is what makes it special, and I think that’s what going to give it the ability to connect with people in a much deeper way then perhaps other songs on the record. Oh, and by the way, ‘Give Me Your Name,’ I wrote that song for my wife for our wedding.

That’s my favorite song on the record.

That’s my favorite song on the record as well. That one and ‘In The Darkness,’ those are my two favorite songs. Those are both written with love about the relationship I have with my beautiful wife. So I wrote that for her, and we danced to that at our wedding.

How did you meet?
We met through a friend, and we never actually crossed paths. Ryan was friends with her for many years. Almost for as long as I have [been friends with him], and we had known of each other for the same amount of time, but I have never met her for some reason. If she was at a party, I didn’t make it. We had never met and eventually, after I had split up with my ex-wife, we met at a party.
We hit it off right away, like instantly. Ever since we met—I think it was like four or five days before we’d see each other again, and we have been together ever since. I think she moved in with me about a week-and-half after I met her. We met, and that was it.

Update around Sun(rise) on Fire

2009-10-13T08:34:00.000-07:00

Okay, I guess we're back up to date now. If I missed anything, just let me know ;)
Uhm, we had our little project "Tell us you story", on until 7th october and we're still working. So don't be mad of disapointed... the story's will be up here soon.

We're also closing the poll for the board. Sun(rise) on Fire will have a Forum. We just want to test it at first and than we'll see how it'll work out ;)

Love,

Tensh_iie

New LPTV Episode with...

2009-10-13T08:03:00.000-07:00

Chester reording vocals for "Inside of me"

I also got this nice picture for the awesome freaksoldier on Twitter, one of her friends made it as they visited Berlin. BUT.... why the heck is he alone on the poster? Where's Ryan and where's Amir?

Dead by Sunrise at TV Total Stockcar Race, Germany

2009-10-13T07:52:00.000-07:00

I found some great videos from the guys at TV Total in Germany, at Julien-K Germany. Thank you guys.

Right before peforming "Crawl back in"

Performing "Crawl back in"

After performing "Crawl back in"

Dead by Sunrise watching "Raab in danger"

OC Register Interview with....

2009-10-13T07:47:00.000-07:00

... Ryan Shuck.

At this point, with only a single in rotation on KROQ and an album still a week away from being released, some might be inclined to write off Dead by Sunrise as nothing more than a side project from Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington.
It's an impression further deepened by the group's debut at the end of August before a Southern California audience of more than 30,000, when, in the middle of Linkin Park's set at the first Epicenter festival in Pomona, DBS unveiled a handful of songs.
"While we were playing," remembers Ryan Shuck, the band's guitarist, "people were yelling 'TOOL!' It was one of the hardest shows … but we didn't expect it to be easy. Between all of us (in the band) we've sold 57 million records, and we didn't get there by going in front of a bunch of people and expecting not to have to fight for it."
What some might not realize, however, is that this band has been almost decade in the making. At the turn of the millennium, when Linkin Park was first breaking big, Bennington met Shuck and Amir Derakh, who were also enjoying success with their band Orgy, riding high off their rocked-out version of New Order's "Blue Monday."
Though the trio soon went different directions professionally – Linkin Park quickly became one of the biggest rock acts of the era, while Orgy disbanded in 2004, leading Shuck and Derakh to form a new band, Julien-K – they stayed in touch, often getting together in their time off for barbecues and to mess around with music.
These days, Bennington shares his time between Newport Beach and Phoenix. Shuck and Derakh now live in Long Beach but got their start in Orange County; Shuck owns a couple of local restaurants, Lola Gaspar in Santa Ana and Gypsy Den in Costa Mesa.
While at a get-together five years ago, Bennington pulled out a guitar and started playing some songs he had written that didn't fit the Linkin Park mold. Shuck says he immediately heard potential in the songs and wanted to help Bennington put them on record. The guys had always said they should play together – this seemed like a good start. Already Bennington was considered the unofficial fifth member of Julien-K, given how often he would stop by the studio to offer pointers.
So Shuck and Derakh were excited when one day Bennington asked them to return the favor, handing them a disc with new guitar parts and vocals to see what they might add. The result of their three days of tinkering ultimately became the basis of Dead by Sunrise. The duo soon brought in Julien-K bassist Brandon Belsky and drummer Elias Andra, later adding keyboardist Anthony "Fu" Valcic to the project.
"It's really incestuous and extremely complicated in the way that it all pencils out," Shuck says of the lineup. "The 'Reader's Digest' version is that we were all just really good friends who play music together … and create all sorts of different sounds."
"Out of Ashes," the band's Warner Bros. debut, drops Oct. 13. The following Monday DBS plays to its hometown crowd at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood.
"I'm totally excited," Shuck says, "because we've been working on this for, like, five years. We've finally found a window (of time) to get this record out. We feel like we've been carrying a baby for five years and now it's finally being born."
Although all pre-production was done by the band in Shuck's home studio in Long Beach, big-time producer Howard Benson – noted for his diverse work, ranging from Motörhead and Papa Roach to Kelly Clarkson and Daughtry – was called on to polish the record.
"It could have probably been released the way it was," Shuck figures, "but when you work with someone like Howard, he's going to sit there and take an objective look at it. He's going to dig into things that matter, zero in on them – make it into something that really pays off. … This project deserved that sort of respect after all of the sacrifice and dedication that went into working on it."
As to what critics might think of Dead by Sunrise – or whether people will take the group seriously or bet on it fading away – Shuck says they're all out of their heads.
"This is a real band and it's going to be something that stays around," he insists. "We're not going to just go away – and no, it's not cutting into Linkin Park time. We're looking at it as bringing people double the Chester."

Source: LPTimes

Ryan and Chester @ QuiM in Paris

2009-10-13T06:09:00.000-07:00

Here are two videos, one is from QuiFM in Paris and the other one... I don't know to be honest. Seems like some Fans met them and they gave a short "Interview", pretty nice :)

QuiFM

Fan "Interview"

Interview at german radio + BBC

2009-10-13T05:45:00.000-07:00

We also got a mail from our beloved Matt again, and he send us a interview with Ryan and Chester, in german but you can listen to some things they said during the interview ;)

(click on the picture to get to the interview)

Other than that he also send us a nice picture of Ryan, Amir and Chester from the BBC :) Thank you. And Amir himself posted a picture from the BBC recording as well :)

And as we're talking about the BBC, here is the interview :)
Thanks to Jani for the mail.

Part 1

Part 2

Part3

Part 4

Part 5

Another Gallery Update

2009-10-13T05:24:00.000-07:00

I also added some screencaps to the Gallery, you can find the interview with Dead by Sunrise @ MySpace here...

Huge Thank you to our beloved Partner Site Chesterland

Picture Update Gruenspan/ Hamburg, 10/07/09

2009-10-13T04:48:00.000-07:00

Okay I finally made it and loaded some pics from the concert into the Gallery :)
Thanks again to PFF for some of them <3>

And I also added some pictures of Chester meeting the fans before the concert.

Article Update: Blabbermouth & Orange Pop

2009-10-08T07:44:00.000-07:00

Just found two articles on DBS, one's by Blabbermouth and one's by Orange Pop.
Both only tell us, what we already know but the Orange Pop article has a different view on the band. I put a short part of it (of both) in this post.
Oh, and when you're reading the article on Orange Pop's site, you just have to read the comment under it, it made me laugh. :)

Blabbermouth:

I would say that I wasn't writing songs about my particular problems while I was going through them during this record. I was writing songs about falling in love, and I was kind of skating around the subject a little bit. After I went through all of that, that's when I started writing very clear and very forward songs about what I went through. Read more

Orange Pop:

It's an impression further deepened by the group's debut at the end of August before a Southern California audience of more than 30,000, when, in the middle of Linkin Park's set at the first Epicenter festival in Pomona, DBS unveiled a handful of songs.
"While we were playing," remembers Ryan Shuck, the band's guitarist, "people were yelling 'TOOL!' It was one of the hardest shows … but we didn't expect it to be easy. Between all of us (in the band) we've sold 57 million records, and we didn't get there by going in front of a bunch of people and expecting not to have to fight for it." Read more

Last night's show/LPST Newsletter

2009-10-08T06:40:00.000-07:00

First of all, photos, videos and reviews of the show will be added later, so stay tuned ;)

We got the setlist from a friend (thanks, sweety! ;); let us know if you have anything for us from last night's show or want to correct or add something!

Hamburg setlist:
1. Crawl Back In
2. Condemned
3. The Morning After
4. Fire
5. Let Down
6. Walking In Circles
7. Too Late
8. The End Of The World
9. My Suffering
10. Inside Of Me
11. 20 Eyes (The Misfits cover)

Show took about 40 minutes

Starting tonight 8pm PDT, you can listen to Out of Ashes in its entirety on Myspace! I also recommend all Street Soldiers to check their email inboxes!

Talking about it, in the LPST newsletter are two promotion flyers for the shows this month. They're asking you to promote those shows the best you can, for example by posting them on your social networking profiles, message boards, etc.
Here are the upcoming shows:

Oct. 14 - The Gramercy Theatre - New York, NY | Tickets ($20.00)
Oct. 19 - The Roxy - West Hollywood, CA | Tickets ($21.50)
Oct. 21 - Jimmy Kimmel Live - Los Angeles, CA | Register For FREE Tickets
Oct. 24 - Merriwhether Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD | Tickets

(Click on the flyers to view the full size)

Log into your LPST account to get more flyers and banners!

Source: LinkinLady, LPST newsletter

KROQ Interview/Club Show today in Hamburg!

2009-10-07T05:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a KROQ video interview with Amir, Chester and Ryan. Thanks to Sandra, for letting us know about the video ;)

I assume there are still people who want to go to the show today in Hamburg, if so, try to be one of the first 50 people at the venue and you'll win a ticket to the show!
Here's the exact address:

Gruenspan
Grosse Freiheit 58
22769 Hamburg
Germany

We're expecting photos and reviews! And videos of course, whatever you can get from the guys! ;)

Source: Rob & Chester Fan site, Cbennington.com

Ryan and Chester @ 1live

2009-10-06T12:20:00.000-07:00

The guys visited the radio station 1live today. So far we don't have that much information but we hope we can fill that in later :)

Until this I want to let you know that I uploaded some pictures of them in the studio of 1live into our gallery (thanks to Matt, for the screenshots, again). You seriously rock, man <3

(click on the pic to get to gallery)

Source: 1live

Some Interview Updates with Chester

2009-10-06T10:03:00.000-07:00

I found two new interviews with Chester on our beloved partnersites Chesterland and JoeHahn.org.

Artistdirect.com

By delving into that darkness, you give fans more of yourself, especially in a song like "Inside of Me."

I wrote that song specifically about being away from my family and my wife, and how I really don't like that. I get into a very dark place. I'd battled relapse at that point. I'd been away from her for so long that I was like, "I'm not doing well—I want to drink or do something." That's the kind of thought process that my brain goes into—well, it's bad, let's make it worse. That's not cool, you know? That song is exactly about that. "Fire" is the only song where I didn't go directly to something with me, but after I wrote it, it actually related to me. In a lot of ways, that song is about doing some soul searching and trying to feel that greater power out there in the universe—knowing you're connected to that. Some people feel like it's a sad song about losing somebody and having them look down on you. You always imagine, after someone passes, that they're up there looking down at you and watching over you—that brings comfort to people as well. In that way, I think that song does connect in many different facets. Every song on this record is about a specific thing that happened to me—that I dealt with over the past four or five years. More...

ultimate-guitar.com
Did you already have an inclination that Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh would be the perfect musicians for Dead By Sunrise? What was it about them that was a good fit for your vision?

I’ve been friends with Ryan and Amir for 10 years now – and close friends. We hang out. When I’m not touring with Linkin Park, I’m with Ryan and Amir. We have plans today where we’re hanging out at the pool. They’re more family than anything else. If I’m at home and they’re around and I play songs, Ryan will be like, “What the fuck is that?” I go, “That’s a song I have.” He’s like, “You need to do something with that.” Timing is always everything as well. The guys were no longer in Orgy, and they were starting with their new band Julien-K. It was kind of like, “We can do this if we wanted to.” When there was time, it kind of all came together.
Mike’s quote was certainly an intriguing one that piqued our curiosity.

That quote is so not Mike’s personality. He’s a really pretty humble guy, and he doesn’t like to toot his own horn. For him to come out and say – “ Yeah, it’s genre-busting” – it’s kind of like, “Well, all right!” More...

The Myspace Music Feed: Interview w/ DBS

2009-10-05T12:27:00.000-07:00

Thanks to luvnlp for twittering me the link! ;)

Here's the interview:

The MySpace Music Feed: Dead By Sunrise and Lights

Only two days until our project ends!

MTV Breakthrough-Video DEAD BY SUNRISE!

2009-10-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Our lovely partner site Julien-K Germany posted this video. It's a german MTV Comercial for "Out of Ashes"

I also added some new pics to the Gallery :)

Music for Relief: LA, Samoa, Indonesia

2009-10-04T12:20:00.000-07:00

As well as we supported Mike's Art Show "Glorious Excess dies", we're also supporting Music for Relief. Mike posted this on his blog at www.mikeshinoda.com

There is a lot going with Music For Relief right now. For those in Los Angeles, there is an event happening nearby. Here's an update:

"Please join Music For Relief and Tree People October 17th as we work together to plant trees in Stenton Ranch Park in Sylmar, CA. In 2008 Sylmar saw two fires that burned over 35,000 acres and displaced some 50,000 people. Between 9am and 12 pm we will reforest the park with 30 trees that will provide shade, oxygen and revitalize a beautiful landscape. Take part in this rewarding experience! Register on the Tree People website by following the link http://www.treepeople.org/million-trees-la-park-planting-0 and filling out the registration form. If you have any questions, please email Megan at megan@musicforrelief.org."

But also, for those elsewhere in the world who can help, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake was followed by a series of tsunamis, affecting the Pacific islands of Samoa, Tonga and America Samoa. Pago-Pago the capitol of American Samoa was badly damaged. The death toll is currently at 146, with hundreds missing. Sixty villages have been completely destroyed. The Red Cross is reporting 15,000 people affected, with 3,000 homeless. In addition, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Sumatra on Wednesday followed by a 6.6 magnitude quake on Thursday causing severe damage and it is estimated that 1100 people ere killed. Accurate information on the number of people affected or displaced by the disaster is not yet available as the search and rescue effort is still underway, but it is known that in Padang alone, at least 500 homes are caved in, hospitals, schools and other buildings have collapsed.
Please visit http://musicforrelief.org/ to find a way to help.

"Let down" + Screencaptures

2009-10-04T00:33:00.000-07:00

You can also listen to "Let down" now on the band's MySpace: www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

And will add some screencaptures of the Photoshoot video later on :)
So make sure to stop by later today and check them out.

Thanks to Chesterland, we love you guys!

"The most important song I've ever written"

2009-10-03T14:53:00.000-07:00

Short arcticle about "Out of Ashes".

Source: LinkinLady

Listen to "Let down"

2009-10-03T01:15:00.001-07:00

I forgt something on yesterdays update, so here you go.

You can listen to the Song "Let down", now here.
Have fun :)

New Pictures of the Band and "Out of Ashes"

2009-10-02T12:34:00.000-07:00

Okay I am here with some awesome updates :)
I have some pictures of "Out of ashes" and from the show in Las Vegas, yesterday. As well as a new "Behind the scenes" - video :)

Let's start with the concert pictures.

And continue with the pictures of the "Out of Ashes" booklet.

Source: LpLive

And now the video...

Dead By Sunrise Photo Shoot

Chester Interview at German TV Show

2009-10-02T00:10:00.001-07:00

I found another Interview with Chester on a German TV show and thought I post it :)
It has german subtitles but you can understand him pretty good so, no problems I guess ^^

Despite that, Ryan Shuck posted a little tweet about the show in Las Vegas. We don't have any information or pictures or videos so far, but we're excited to see them. So if you have anything... come here and send us a mail at sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com and we'll post your stuff here. And here you go with Ryan :)

and one from Talinda.

DBS Merchandise/Epicenter review

2009-10-01T12:31:00.000-07:00

YAY, they finally arrived! Those awesome t-shirts landed on earth and you can buy them! They have their own webstore that can be entered here.
The band itself chose the designs for these t-shirts and they really look awesome!

Another thing I want to show to you (it's probably old and you all know it but just enjoy it, it's great):

The crowd's response was beyond electric. Bennington immediately launched into, "Crawl Back In," the first single from Dead By Sunrise's forthcoming Warner Bros. debut, Out of Ashes [due out October 13]. "Crawl Back In" bled true hard rock swagger. Bennington's inimitable voice pulsated with power as he snaked across the stage in classic fashion. Ryan Shuck's riffs coupled with Amir Derakh's base forged a raw gutter rock backdrop for Bennington to slink through. "Crawl Back In" touted an anthemic refrain, and Dead By Sunrise completely hypnotized listeners. On "Fire," the band pulled back some of the intensity, paving the way for a sweeping chorus. Bennington never stopped moving though. His energy was palpable and the lyrics on "My Suffering" felt poetic. Dead By Sunrise played a personal and powerful set, perfectly prefacing their debut—which is bound to be one of the best rock records of the year. Read the whole review

Source: CBennington.com, artistdirect

CD Reviews/Vegas Show

2009-10-01T08:19:00.000-07:00

Out Of Ashes is already out in Japan, therefore there are some reviews. ;) I found two on LPTimes, will add more later.

Out of Ashes is a beautifully crafted album which skillfully takes the listener on a whirlwind trip through Bennington’s remarkable trials of recent life. He lays bare his deepest, most personal moments from when he hit rock-bottom, through his pain and suffering and to his discovery of new love and the process of healing. Read more

This is the debut album of Chester Bennington's side project "Dead By Sunrise". the album begins with Fire, which is a song about losing someone you love and how to deal with that. The song is personal to my heart because I know how it feels and I have to deal with that now so it's like one of my new lifestory songs lol. Read more

You wrote your own review? Send it to us! We will post it on SoF!

And DBS will be playing at the Wasted Space (Hard Rock Hotel) in Vegas today! Stay tuned for photos and videos! ;)
Oh, and of course, you can send us your own photos and videos!

Source: LPTimes

Pictures from the "Let down" shoot

2009-09-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

Talinda, Chester's beautiful wife, posted via Twitter some nice pictures of herself and her husband right from the "Let down" video shoot.
"Let down" will be the first single here in Europe and we're excited ;) So thank you very much for sharing, Talinda.

Source: Talinda Twitter

We got also a mail with a link to the full studio version from "Let down" to hear on youtube and we're thankful for that BUT I just wanted to let you know even though "Out of Ashes" is out already in Japan we're not posting anything like this before the record is out worldwide. So if you have stuff like this for Sun(rise) on Fire, go ahead send us a mail but don't be mad if we're posting it later on ;)
We will post and share it for sure.

Thank you,
Tensh_iie

Listen to Out Of Ashes before everybody else!

2009-09-30T08:43:00.000-07:00

You can win a pre-listening session with the band by telling the German radio station EinsLive how the name of Chester's first band is. I assume the session will be in the station's building because they don't say anything.

Pointing it out: DBS will be there with you to listen to the album ;)

So, in case you win, please take photos for us! :D

Source: Thanks to Mel ;)

Fire featured on "Three Rivers"

2009-09-30T06:07:00.000-07:00

According to Chester's official site, Fire will be featured on the upcoming episode of Three Rivers. The episode will be on CBS on Sunday, Oct 4th. So, don't miss it :)

Some site stuff:
You can still send in your DBS stories! We would love to read your stories and post them on SoF next week! ;) And we're planning on showing it to certain people so maybe you want them to know why you're a fan!

On the right side, in the navigation, there's our little poll. We welcome you to vote, it helps us with deciding ;) So, voting would be great!

And we want you to send us your scans of DBS articles, concert photos, fanarts, whatever you have!

[Gallery] New screencaps & new category

2009-09-29T09:32:00.000-07:00

We present you new screencaps, this time from the Sonisphere show in Knebworth, UK. Taken by the awesome Matt *worships* You should really check those out, they're amazing!

Thanks so much!

A little preview:

And we have a new category in our gallery! You can now send in your DBS fanart! :D
Thanks to L1NK-91 for this one:

DBS on Kimmel and Letterman in Oct

2009-09-29T04:43:00.000-07:00

DBS will be on Kimmel and Letterman sometime in October. I don't know when exactly since I couldn't find any information on it on their sites. I'm sorry for that. But it's no rumor, it's true ;)

So, Kimmel's show is on ABC, usually weeknights 12.05pm and you can watch David Letterman on CBS, weeknights 11.35pm. Just for the people who don't know. ;)

On October 13th they're on Letterman & 21st Kimmel.

And I want to show you a very nice picture. Someone was so great to do this:

Thanks to Amir for all the news!

Another DBS show in Germany

2009-09-28T13:05:00.000-07:00

So, you can only WIN tickets to this club show in Hamburg, Germany. All you have to do is to tell Delta Radio why you have to win those tickets.

The exact place where the show will be is a secret. Whoo, it's a secret show. And yes, you can only WIN the tickets, they're not for sale.

Thanks to Tamara for letting me know! :D

Source: lplive, DeltaRadio

SHREDnews reviews on "Out Of Ashes"

2009-09-28T07:24:00.000-07:00

They give it a 9 of 10! C'mon, it's surely better!
BUT from another perspective, this rate is good. ;) Since so many people talk bad about it...
On another word, the review is very good. :)

Here's the review:

An artists portfolio is a very important and personal item; only the best of their work is picked to be presented and they must chose each piece themselves. It’s often recommended that an artist begin and finish the portfolio with the two strongest pieces, descending from each end into the middle with the weakest of the strong.

It seems to me that Chester Bennington has followed this advice exactly with his deeply personal new project Dead By Sunrise. Not only is the album some of his finest lyrical work, it also begins and ends with two spectacular tracks, much like his very own portfolio of songs. Full review on SHREDnews

Source: LinkinLady, LPTimes

(EDIT) - [Gallery] New Screencaps from "Making of CBI"

2009-09-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

Spent my day with editing screencaps and uploading them to our gallery. I made a bunch of screencaps from the "Making of Crawl Back In" a while back and finally got around to upload them. :)

Here's a preview:

EDIT!

I added some new pictures from the Club Tattoo Opening signing, the Opening show + the accoustic concert as well as the show at Epicenter as well ;)

30 seconds "Out of Ashes"

2009-09-25T09:42:00.001-07:00

You can hear a sneak peak of every song that will be on "Out of Ashes"
30 seconds of ech song, check it out here... "Out of Ashes"

I post the tracklist once more too so you know which song it is because they're titled from 1 to 12 ;)

01. Fire (3:50)
02. Crawl Back In (3:02)
03. Too Late (2:59)
04. Inside Of Me (2:18)
05. Let Down (3:58)
06. Give Me Your Name (4:56)
07. My Suffering (2:39)
08. Condemned (2:32)
09. Into You (3:23)
10. End Of The World (3:56)
11. Walking In Circles (4:43)
12. In The Darkness (5:27)
13. Morning After (Bonus Track) (3:29)

Sorce: RobChesterFansite

100. post + Confirmation

2009-09-24T12:14:00.000-07:00

Okay this is out 100. post at "Sun(rise) on Fire" and we wanted to thank all of you for supporting this side and this project. We never though we could achiev all the things we did. Thank you so so so so so much. Special thanks to all our Family Site and of course a special Thanks to all of you as well :)

Uhm after someone posted a comment to the post about DBS playing in Germany and went over to Amir's Twitter and looked if I could find any post where he confirmed this and I just found this one. Unfortunatley I don't know if she means Julien-K or Dead by Sunrise, anyways... they're comming to Germany :)

They also added some shows in the US.

14. Okt. 2009

20:00

The Gramercy Theatre

New York, New York

19. Okt. 2009

20:00

The Roxy

West Hollywood, California

And I also uploaded a new picture from the Making of... of "Crawl back in" in the Gallery. So make sure to went over and check it out ;)

Rock on, Ryan :P

Recording "Too late"

2009-09-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

Okay, I saw that DBS updated a new "Making of" video at their MySpace so for sure, we're posting it as well ;)
It's about recording a song called "Too late" and of what you can hear, that will be another great song. So far I'm still excited for "Out of ashs" but I am also a little dissapointed because of songs like "My Suffering" or "Inside of me" - they could be better... in MY opinion. But you always have tracks you like more than other - on every record so... no worry's haha

Tracking "Too Late" with Howard Benson

DBS Concerts [Confirmed]

2009-09-24T06:25:00.000-07:00

It's no secret anymore that DBS plans on coming to Europe to play some shows. People say that they'll go to Asia as well, I don't know what's confirmed. It's only what I heard from reliable sources.

What seems to be sure is that they'll play a show in Germany, 10.10.2009. They'll perform during a show called "StockCar Crash Challenge". You can still get tickets to the show, it's a car race, basically, and all they're trying to do is damaging the cars until you can't drive with them anymore. Therefore, DBS will play only one or two songs, I guess, since there'll play two other bands, too.
This seems to be official BUT I watched TV Total yesterday and he didn't say anything about DBS. He usually talks about the Car Challenge and says something about the bands but he didn't mention DBS.
According to LPlive, people on twitter and JK Germany, it's confirmed that DBS will perform at the said show in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

We will try to keep you informed on it ;)

Source: LPlive, Julien-K Germany

NEW Stuff at Sun(rise) on Fire

2009-09-23T10:38:00.000-07:00

Okay, I didn't update here in a while haha And I am sorry about that but now I'm back with some awesome news.
Sun(rise) on Fire has a Gallery NOW!
We worked hard on it and put a lot of work into it, so please check it out and let us know what you think ;)

You can find the link for the Gallery in our sidebar as well ;)

Other than that I want to update a little video that we got from RobChester Fansite, thank you for letting us know :)

I also got a tweet from LinkinParkReturn which posted some sneak peaks of "Let down" out of a LPTV Episode and a LPUTV Episode.

See LPTV here: "Let down"
and LPUTV here: "Let down"

And we also wanted to let you know that we're having another new partner Site :) Please welcome Julien-K Germany ;) Love you guys, thank you!

[EDIT] DBS on Rockline/Rehearsing/Vegas Show

2009-09-23T06:58:00.000-07:00

1. The guys will be on Rockline on Monday, 28th September at 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET. You can call in and ask them questions, calling the following number: 1-800-344-ROCK (7625). For more information on how to listen to the broadcast and any further information, check their site.

You'll be able to listen to the stream for two weeks on their site, this begins the afternoon after the broadcast.

2. According to a tweet by Talinda (thanks to luvnlp for retweeting ;), DBS is rehearsing for some upcoming shows! So there'll be more than just two shows, I guess...

3. It's nothing important, I only wanted to add this "poster" which can be found on their myspace.

Source: LPTimes

GoTV videos on youtube

2009-09-22T12:03:00.000-07:00

There are finally videos of the GoTV show with Chester on youtube. Julien-K Germany has them uploaded onto their youtube channel, so check them out there.

The good thing is: It's only subtitled! Which means you can hear Chester talking in English ;)

Source: Julien-K Germany

French Linkin Park Wikipedia

2009-09-22T08:26:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago, I was checking ZoneLP for news and found an article about an Linkin Park Wikipedia. I always thought that a Wikipedia, an own Wikipedia capturing all our LP knowledge, was a good idea. So, I took a look at the site and have to say that those guys are doing an awesome job. There's still not much, for example the members' biographies aren't completed. But -and that's why I'm posting it on here- they have an entry for Dead By Sunrise which I think is pretty good. It's not much, it's actually very short, so maybe there's a bunch of people who want to help them out.
The sad thing is, the site is only in French. I thought about asking them to expand, like adding versions in other languages. But unfortunately, I couldn't find any email addresses or other ways to contact them. Because an international Wikipedia would be awesome since not everybody speaks French. ;)

For those who want to check the site out, here's the link. I think it's pretty good ;)

"Inside of me"

2009-09-21T11:53:00.000-07:00

Ryanne tweeted that "Inside of me" will be the next single streaming at the bands MySpace tonight. So stay tuned and keep and eye at it ;)

www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

I also saw that they'll be playing a show in Columbia, Maryland on October, 23 at Mearywheater Post Pavillon, so stay tuned for more information ;)

Review on "Crawl Back In"

2009-09-20T07:25:00.000-07:00

I was browsing through the internet, when I found a german review on F.A.Z. (which is the abbreviation for "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", one of the best-known newspapers in Germany). To be honest, I was really surprised by it and had to read it. It's from a guy's blog. Apparently, only ranting about music and culture.

And because I don't want to be alone with my wishes to hurt this someone, I translated (only the part of his blog post in which he talks about DBS) it for you :) I hope it gets through what the guy wants to say. Feel free to comment and rant. :D
I'm sorry for any mistakes, I'm sick and therefore unable to concentrate.

[...] And as we are talking about “phat bass lines” and “rich production”: Yesterday, while sitting in the car and driving, I was listening to the radio that was playing “Crawl Back In” by Dead By Sunrise, the solo-project of Linkin Park's singer. The usual angry and tattooed disenfranchised rock. Analog-cheese-music. Bluff-package-punk-rock. Not any important. But how I had to keep myself focused on the traffic and not to burst out in laughter when I heard the noticeable vocational misunderstood singer singing the following line: “I don't want to lose my innocence.” Right after that, he sang: “Won't let your lies take a piece of my soul.” Marvelous! Where did this man get such clever ideas?? Why thinking up brisky metaphors when there's these old phrases from the moldy box of rock lyrics that are still good enough. Helge Schneider's [A/N: Helge Schneider is a German singer and comedian] evergreen “I want to be free” [A/N: Original title is “Ich will frei sein”] came to my mind: “Freedom in boundaries is only dreams made of stone.” Particularly as: Who makes such stupid consesus-punk-rock has already lost their “innocence” years ago when they dyed their hair blonde. Oh, now, I talked to much. Pardon.”

Source: F.A.Z. (it's linked to the article, for Germans who want to read the original article :)

"We'll make records when we can."

2009-09-19T05:16:00.000-07:00

This sounds great: There's going to more DBS in the next years! Let's hope he keeps his promise because promoting his solo-project in between LP-time-off's is a good idea ;)

Chester recently spoke with Billboard.com explaining Dead By Sunrise will not be a one time thing.

"We'll make records when we can," Bennington -- who started forming Dead By Sunrise, originally as Snow White Tan, in 2005 -- tells Billboard.com. "I don't think people should expect to see an album every couple of years. I'm definitely not going to tell Linkin Park, 'Hey, can you guys take some time off so I can go work on Dead By Sunrise?' That's not gonna happen. But we definitely see this as something we'll continue to do. This isn't a one-time thing for us. Every five years or so I could imagine there'd be a Dead By Sunrise record."

He states that he is looking forward to playing live shows in support of "Out of Ashes", due out October 13th.

"We really are looking forward to going and playing small venues for a few hundred people," he says, "and really having the people who want to hear us play getting sweaty with us and having speakers right in their faces and blasting them pretty loud."

Chester also comments on Linkin Park, saying that the band would like to have their new album out by mid-2010 but "won't put anything out until we can pull a batch of super-stellar songs together." Read more

1. Reminder: We need all the photos you got! Whether own concert photos, signing photos or other photos of DBS.
We take single photo which means if you have picture of just Ryan, you can send it to us AS LONG AS you're sure that the photo has anything to with Dead By Sunrise.
No LP, no private Chester, no Julien-K. Keep it clean, only DBS. :)

2. Reminder: Don't forget our little project! It's already the 19th September and the project's end will be on 7th October. Please send us your Dead By Sunrise story! To this address: sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com

Source: Rob & Chester fan site

Work in progress

2009-09-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hey guys :)
I just want to let you know that we're working hard on the gallery for "Sun(rise) on Fire". Hopefully it will be finished during this weekend.

BUT, we still need your help. So if you have any pictures from Dead by Sunrise or anything that has to do with the Band or the Members, please send us a mail at: sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com

Any news or videos are appreciated as well :)

Dead by Sunrise show in Las Vegas!

2009-09-17T05:57:00.000-07:00

Wanna see Dead by Sunrise' first concert? Wanna meet the Band?
Than check this out ;) or visit www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

Dead By Sunrise Show In Las Vegas!
Dead By Sunrise will be playing at Wasted Space inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV on October 1st! Tickets for the show will go on sale this Saturday at 12pm! This is the bands first full electric performance in Vegas and it's a small venue, so tickets will go FAST! More ticket info coming soon.

We're also hooking up one of you with a pair of tickets to the show as well as passes to meet the band! All you have to do is email dbsgiveaways@gmail.com with the following information:

Subject: MYSPACE Ticket Giveaway!

Full Name:
City:
Phone Number:
Email Address:

Ryan Shuck about...

2009-09-16T12:19:00.000-07:00

Found this great words from Ryan Shuck about Amir and Chester on Julien-K's homepage :)

Amir Derakh

and

Chester Bennington

Click on the pictures to see them full size

Awesome Interview with Ryan and Amir

2009-09-16T11:18:00.000-07:00

I'm terribly bored so I snooped around a little bit and found this awesome Interview, for MishMash TV, with Ryan and Amir on Julien-K's YouTube Channel.
One of the best interviews ever. Totally awesome and funny, so check it out.
They're also talking about Dead by Sunrise, so I thought I update it and share it with all of you :)

And yes, I still love Ryan and Amir ;)

Chester promotes "My suffering"

2009-09-15T11:27:00.000-07:00

Chester just tweeted a link where you can download the song "My Suffering".
Check it out, here!

You can find our Twitter page right here: www.twitter.com/Sunriseonfire

Talinda Bennington talks about "Out of Ashes"

2009-09-15T10:50:00.000-07:00

Chester's wife Talinda mentioned something about one song on "Out of Ashes" yesterday on Twitter :)

HQ's from Stuttgart concert

2009-09-15T10:19:00.001-07:00

Ana from PFF posted some HQ Pictures of Dead by Sunrise, right before the show in Stuttgart, Germany ( 30. July. 2009)
Thank you for that :)

I also found two pictures back I found once on Brandon Belsky's Facebook :)

EDIT! I found more, hot stuff ;)

(click so see them full size)

Okay, that's it and YES, I have a thing for Ryan and Amir ;) Shoot me :P

OOA Listening Party

2009-09-15T07:37:00.000-07:00

According to LPAssociation, Myspace will be having a listening party, playing the entire album. To listen to the album, you have to check their Myspace one week before the release on October 13th.

I can't remember anybody else reporting it. Just found it on LPA, and thought it's worth a mention.

Source: LPAssociation

[EDIT] New DBS episode & Making of CBI

2009-09-14T15:46:00.001-07:00

And because we love watching episodes in our band's widget, here it is!

EDIT They posted a Making Of "Crawl Back In" on their Myspace.
Dead By Sunrise - Making of the Crawl Back In video

Source: Thanks to luvnlp for your (re)tweet! ♥

For anyone on twitter, and everywhere else who says they're bored, get your fucking ass to your email host and send us an email with your DBS story. I only want this to succeed, since this is our way to show support! Let's give those DBS guys a little bit of love and let them know that their hard work paid off!
And for those who already sent in their stories and for those who are planning on doing so - THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Please send your stories to our email address, which is: sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com. The end of the project is set on the 7th of October. So, get your hands on it!

Reminder: GoTV and project

2009-09-14T07:09:00.000-07:00

Don't forget to watch Hosted by on the austrian channel GoTV! I think you don't have to live in Austria to watch. Would be great if someone'll record it and put it online somewhere! (Leave a link in the shoutbox, please!)

So, here are further information:

So, 20.09. - 11:00 Uhr
Fr, 25.09. - 21:00 Uhr
Sa, 26.09. - 16:00 Uhr
Read our post for more information.

The other thing... Don't forget about our awesome project, please send in your stories until Oct 7th! And please, send emails!
And spread the word!

Source: Julien-K Germany

Prizes, prizes, prizes!

2009-09-11T08:11:00.000-07:00

With the DBS widget you can win a prize pack! What's in it? Stickers and Posters! So, grab the DBS widget from this site, and put it on your blog, website, profile, whatever else internet appearance!
If that already happened, then take screenshot of the part of your site with widget and send it to this email address! And win the prize pack!

Here's the exact text from Cbennington.com:

As you might know, Dead By Sunrise have an awesome new WIDGET. We want to make sure the world has seen it, and we need your help! Copy the code HERE and paste it in your MySpace profile, blog, or website, then take a screenshot or send the link to your page to DBSGIVEAWAYS@GMAIL.COM. In the next week, we'll go through and randomly select 5 people who send us a screenshot or link to their page to receive a DBS prize pack including stickers and posters! If you are randomly chosen, we'll reply to your email to let you know.

And I added the third part of the interview with Ryan and Chester on Live 105.3 :)

Last but not least - don't forget about our project! :)

Interview + Upcoming TV Appearance

2009-09-11T06:04:00.000-07:00

There's an interview with Chester at DASDING.tv, go here to watch it.

And there's going to be a TV appearance on the austrian channel gotv. The show is called "hosted by" and this time it's hosted by DBS, presenting 10 videos of other bands that Chester picked out! So to say, his favorite videos.

Is anyone interested in the text that's on the site? If so, I will translate it. It's actually only a short biography, and there's something about the first DBS show in it. And that's it.
But if someone's interested, I will do so. ;)

Source: Rob & Chester fan site

New Project: Your DBS story

2009-09-11T04:45:00.000-07:00

This is our first official Sunrise On Fire project! And it was my idea, so in case it won't work, it's all my fault.

Information:
My fiancée and I talk a lot about the upcoming album and the reason why we're looking forward to it. For the two of us, it's a very special album because we relate so much to it - even before we've heard the whole album. Because of the many interviews in which Chester talked about the reasons for him to make this album, the situations, the feelings, the people, etc. that/who made him writing the lyrics, there's a base to which many people can relate to, since the things that have happened to him aren't very rare. So, for me, much like for him, the release of Out Of Ashes is something very special, there are many reasons, personal reasons, why.

What's your part?
Because of the above said, we want you to tell us why you're looking forward to the release of Out Of Ashes. It doesn't have to be a personal reason, it could only be because of the music. That doesn't matter. Tell us about your reason why you're supporting DBS, what you like most about their music/the band and -of course, this is the most important part- what makes you eagerly awaiting the release of their album.

How can I participate?
It's simple; you only have to send us an email. No comments, no shouts in the box. If you have our private email addresses, you can email your story to that address, for all others, this is our email address: sunrise-on-fire@hotmail.com

Conditions:
Let's say, your story has to be 10 words long, at least.
No "Because I love Chester so much!!", well, you can add that to your story but please write more than that.

Are there any things left to say? Oh, please spread the word! We want as many people as possible participating! This is not only for our own fan pleasure, maybe we're going to show this to someone in DBS. We'll see what'll come out.

Any questions? Send an email, comment on this or make a shout in the shoutbox! ;)

Oh, and another thing I want to say: We are no Chester fan site! So, everything, every event or whatever else occasion Chester's there as himself or for Linkin Park reasons and not as DBS, won't be updated/posted on this site.

Chester & Ryan live at 105.3

2009-09-10T09:01:00.000-07:00

There are two videos of their appearance at Justin.TV.

Part 1

Watch live video from LIVE 105.3 KITS SAN FRANCISCO on Justin.tv

Part 2

Watch live video from LIVE 105.3 KITS SAN FRANCISCO on Justin.tv

Part 3

Watch live video from LIVE 105.3 KITS SAN FRANCISCO on Justin.tv

Source: Rob & Chester fan site

Update on track listing of Out Of Ashes

2009-09-10T07:06:00.000-07:00

It's just a minor update but our friends at Rob & Chester fan site posted the length of the songs on Out Of Ashes.
You may remember that we already posted the track listing, so this is really just a minor update, no need to freak out or something.

01. Fire (3:50)
02. Crawl Back In (3:02)
03. Too Late (2:59)
04. Inside Of Me (2:18)
05. Let Down (3:58)
06. Give Me Your Name (4:56)
07. My Suffering (2:39)
08. Condemned (2:32)
09. Into You (3:23)
10. End Of The World (3:56)
11. Walking In Circles (4:43)
12. In The Darkness (5:27)
13. Morning After (Bonus Track) (3:29)

And don't forget to pre-order in case you still need to!

Source: Rob & Chester fan site ♥

... one of the most added Bands on Rock Radio

2009-09-09T09:45:00.000-07:00

Just found this nice article at our beloved Chester-land :)

BURBANK, Calif.–Businesswire – Dead by Sunrise,the new band fronted by Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, is coming out of the gate strong with its debut single, “Crawl Back In,” which has been one of the Most-Added tracks at Rock Radio for the last four weeks. The song is the first single from the band’s Howard Benson-produced debut album Out of Ashes, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records on October 13^th, 2009.

MySpace premiers the video for “Crawl Back In” today. In addition, Fans will be able to stream the album in its entirety on MySpace via an exclusive “Listening Party” a week before its release.

Dead by Sunrise, which is Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh (from Orgy/Julien-K), bassist Brandon Belsky, drummer Elias Anda (also from Julien-K), and keyboardist Anthony Valcic, will perform at MTV’s first annual “Ulalume” Halloween festival on October 23^rd, 2009, at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD, alongside Paramore, AFI, and Kid Cudi. Their performance will air during a Halloween-themed week on MTV, MTV.com, mtvU, and mtvU.com.

More pictures from Dead by Sunrise

2009-09-09T01:33:00.000-07:00

Jen from LL posted us a link in the shoutbox where I found some great pictures of Dead by Sunrise. Mainly Chester and Ryan.
Thank you for the link, sweet :)

(click on the picture to see full size)

Pictures of "Crawl back in" single

2009-09-08T13:09:00.000-07:00

Ryanne just sended us these pictures of the single "Crawl back in".
Thank you, girl. Love ya <3

"Crawl back in" Video

2009-09-08T00:25:00.001-07:00

Check out the Video for "Crawl back in" <3

Dead By Sunrise - Crawl Back In

Just a small EDIT: For fans in Spain, you can also watch the video on eplais.com & los40.com, when you live in the UK or Ireland, go here.

Source: LinkinLady

Amir Derakh + Sun(rise) on fire

2009-09-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

You all know we're on Twitter (www.twitter.com/sunriseonfire) and I have a private Twitter too. I met this awesome girl Ryanne over Twitter and she did write Amir a message he should check out our site.

And now he just answered:

That means... AFTER Talinda, Amir took a look at our site as well... or he just said that but yeah haha We dun want to believe this ;)
Anyways... thank you, Amir. We love you, guys <3

Track listing for "Crawl Back In" single

2009-09-07T08:43:00.000-07:00

If this goes only for the swiss version of the single or for Europe in general, or even the entire world, I don't know. But it seems logical.

And actually - I've expected more. But well, you can't have everything.

Oh, just found out that the 25th Sept is a friday, so I think the release date will be the same for Germany, therefore 28th/29th for the rest of the world (well, mostly).

Title: Crawl Back In
Supplier: Warner Music
Label: WB
Format: Maxi Single
CD Release: 25.09.2009
1. Crawl Back In (Album Version)
2. Crawl Back In (Live Version)
3. My Suffering (Live Version)

Source: Rob & Chester fan site (Thanks to Nici)

DBS backstage @ Sonisphere

2009-09-05T14:52:00.000-07:00

Ana from PFF let us know over the Shoutbox that she found a picture of the Dead by Sunrise guys, without Chester ;), aka Julien-K XD backstage at the Sonisphere. Thank you, girl.

(click to see fullsize)

More pictures from CBI shoot

2009-09-05T14:45:00.000-07:00

Dead by Sunrise added 4 more pictures of the shoot for "Crawl back in"
Thanks to luvnlp for letting me know ;)

(click to see full size)

Be the first to hear "Out Of Ashes"

2009-09-05T02:03:00.000-07:00

This is only if you're a member of the LPST, unfortunately.
I just checked my emails and found the following:

With the debut album Out of Ashes from Dead By Sunrise (featuring Chester Bennington) still 6 weeks away from release, we want to offer fans the chance to be the first to hear it and publish their reviews. After all, it is your reactions that we can all trust the most. A few lucky fans from certain countries around the world will be selected to get to hear the new album before anyone else does, and then tell the world!

For further information, check your email inboxes, Street Soldiers ;)

It's a very cool idea and if you're one of the lucky ones, let us here on SoF know about your first impression! Contact us via email or leave a shout in our shoutbox when you want to share a review!

Source: LPST Newsletter

CBI Video Shoot

2009-09-04T19:27:00.000-07:00

Found these amazing pictures of the "Crawl back in" Video Shoot at their guys' MySpace. Check them out :)

PS: You can also listen their new song "Fire" there, it's awesome. Make sure to pay a visit!

(click to see fullsize)

Interview with Chester and Ryan at 98 KUPD

2009-09-04T02:46:00.000-07:00

I found 2 nice videos of an Interview Chester and Ryan gave to 98 KUPD.

First Part

Second Part

Thanks to LinkinLady & Chester-land

Video: "Crawl back in" live @ Sonisphere

2009-09-01T16:37:00.000-07:00

Here's a video of "Crawl back in" live @ the Sonisphere festival in the UK.

The actual information behind is that you can download this live version here. Condition: You live in the UK.

Then again, don't forget to pre-order "Out of Ashes" otherwise I will haunt ya!

Source: Cbennington.com

3 updates in 1

2009-09-01T05:12:00.000-07:00

1. You can pre-order "Out of Ashes" now on iTunes! Pre-ordering the digital version of the album gets you the following:

If you pre-order the album, not only will you get "Morning After" and a live version of "Crawl Back In" as bonus tracks, you'll also be able to download "Fire" instantly!

2. You can now stream the song "Fire" on DBS' Myspace! Just go here.

3. The premiere of the video for "Crawl back in" will be on Tuesday, September 8th! So I think, further information on where the premiere will be will come. Otherwise, I'm sure it'll either on their Myspace or in the widget.

Oh, and a special thanks to those who worked on DBS' profile on Last.FM! Just opened and checked their profile - it's great!

Source: Myspace, CBennington.com