Draven Bennington, the son of late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, has shared his debut single underneath the identify RVRND.
This July will mark six years for the reason that Linkin Park singer died following a battle with melancholy and, within the time since, his household have continued to honour his legacy. Now, one in all his six youngsters has determined to comply with in his footsteps, and launched his personal music profession underneath the identify RVRND.
21-year-old Draven Bennington dropped his debut solo tune ‘F_w_Me’, earlier this week (April 25) — a rap monitor that attracts inspiration from basic ‘90s hip-hop. The one is blended and mastered by Jay Baumgardner, who additionally labored with Chester throughout his time with Linkin Park and his earlier band, Gray Daze. Take a look at the monitor under.
Earlier than exploring the rap style, Draven was a part of an alt-metal band known as Chaos, the place he acted as frontman and rhythm guitarist.
‘F_w_Me’ options within the new Paramount+ docuseries, Household Legacy, which seems again at iconic musical artists — together with Diddy and *NSYNC — by means of the eyes of their youngsters. Draven appeared within the first episode of the sequence, entitled Dads Who Rock.
The 21-year-old musician mentioned his time on the brand new sequence with a social media replace on Tuesday (April 25). Right here, he shared his appreciation for everybody concerned, writing: “Everybody was so candy and real, and attending to see all of the vaulted movies of my dad was wonderful!”
He additionally added, “It was so good to get to share what I’m doing in addition to discuss all the wonderful issues that my dad did with out specializing in the top… Let’s speak concerning the blissful recollections as a substitute of soaking in unhappy ones! Thanks all once more from the underside of my coronary heart!”
Earlier this month, one other one in all Chester Bennington’s youngsters — Tyler Lee Bennington — took to TikTok to close down conspiracy theories relating to his dad’s dying. “That is the bullshit I can’t be coping with on my web page,” he said. “There’s no proof to any of those theories which were made. These are all simply useless makes an attempt to sensationalise and make what actually is a tragedy, an enormous story.”
In different Linkin Park information, final month Mike Shinoda revealed that the nu-metal band is not going to carry out utilizing a hologram of the late singer. It announcement got here after a beforehand unheard Linkin Park tune that includes Chester’s vocals was shared forward of a twentieth anniversary reissue of ‘Meteora’.