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Dead by Sunrise (previously known as Snow White Tan) is the side project of Linkin Park
Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
's lead vocalist
Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist is the member of a Band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. Lead vocalists may also play one or more instruments. They are sometimes referred to as a frontmen , and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the spokespersons in interviews and before the public....
, Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead vocalist in the rock music band Linkin Park, and was previously associated with the band Grey Daze, among others....
. The name Snow White Tan was speculated to be a reference to the David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
 track "Ziggy Stardust
Ziggy Stardust (song)

"Ziggy Stardust" is a song written by David Bowie in 1972 in music for the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....
", which includes the lyrics "Came on so loaded, man/Well hung and snow-white tan", but the band's renaming to Dead by Sunrise by Chester has not been publicly explained. Chester has said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, "We were called Snow White Tan for a while, and then I changed the name to Dead By Sunrise, but I really just like Chester Bennington." Chester Bennington stated in a LPU Chat, that realistically, the album should be put out in September, 2009

band, which also features Amir Derakh
Amir Derakh

Amir Davidson , is an United States musician of Persian people ancestry. As of 1997 he is the guitar/synthesizer player for the band Orgy . He was once a guitarist in the bands Rough Cutt and Jailhouse....
 and Ryan Shuck
Ryan Shuck

Ryan Christopher Shuck , better known as Ryan Shuck, is the guitarist for alternative rock band Orgy . He also has a side project with fellow Orgy Member Amir Derakh called Julien-K....
 of the band Orgy
Orgy

An orgy was a secret Cult congregation at nighttime in Ancient Greek religion, overseen by an orgiophant ....
, and Anthony "Fu" Valcic, is Bennington's solo endeavor.






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Dead by Sunrise (previously known as Snow White Tan) is the side project of Linkin Park
Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
's lead vocalist
Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist is the member of a Band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. Lead vocalists may also play one or more instruments. They are sometimes referred to as a frontmen , and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the spokespersons in interviews and before the public....
, Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead vocalist in the rock music band Linkin Park, and was previously associated with the band Grey Daze, among others....
. The name Snow White Tan was speculated to be a reference to the David Bowie
David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
 track "Ziggy Stardust
Ziggy Stardust (song)

"Ziggy Stardust" is a song written by David Bowie in 1972 in music for the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....
", which includes the lyrics "Came on so loaded, man/Well hung and snow-white tan", but the band's renaming to Dead by Sunrise by Chester has not been publicly explained. Chester has said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, "We were called Snow White Tan for a while, and then I changed the name to Dead By Sunrise, but I really just like Chester Bennington." Chester Bennington stated in a LPU Chat, that realistically, the album should be put out in September, 2009

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The band, which also features Amir Derakh
Amir Derakh

Amir Davidson , is an United States musician of Persian people ancestry. As of 1997 he is the guitar/synthesizer player for the band Orgy . He was once a guitarist in the bands Rough Cutt and Jailhouse....
 and Ryan Shuck
Ryan Shuck

Ryan Christopher Shuck , better known as Ryan Shuck, is the guitarist for alternative rock band Orgy . He also has a side project with fellow Orgy Member Amir Derakh called Julien-K....
 of the band Orgy
Orgy

An orgy was a secret Cult congregation at nighttime in Ancient Greek religion, overseen by an orgiophant ....
, and Anthony "Fu" Valcic, is Bennington's solo endeavor. The Dead by Sunrise album has been recorded in full and was originally slated for a 2006 release, and then an early 2007 release, but due to his commitments to Linkin Park
Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
, Chester has put the release on hold until early 2009. Recent posted by The Pulse of Radio say that Chester Bennington's solo album is still in production and will be finalized sometime during Spring of 2008. Bennington stated in an interview with Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

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 that he hopes to put the Dead By Sunrise album in 2009. He also said in an interview with Orange County Register that he will work on the album simultaneously with a fourth Linkin Park record.

Chester performs guitar
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 and keyboard
Keyboard instrument

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 on the album, as well as singing
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
. All extra instrumental, programming and production was undertaken by Ryan, Amir, and Fu. The album does not yet have a title, but names have been thrown around previously. It is also said to be a far-cry from the sounds of Linkin Park and draws influence from '90s rock as well as '80s pop such as The Cure
The Cure

The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
, Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

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, and Bauhaus
Bauhaus (band)

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. When asked in an interview about the difference between Dead By Sunrise and Linkin Park, Bennington responded, "It’s hard to describe. Like, describe the difference between Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, you know what I mean? It’s almost impossible. There are obvious things about it that when you listen to it, you’ll know it’s not a Linkin Park record. You’re not gonna get confused. You’ll have to hear it."

On February 4, 2009 Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda

Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. His father is a Japanese American, while his mother is of European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas descent....
 wrote in his blog, "I was just hanging out with Chester, and got a chance to hear some of his new solo material! In case you haven't heard, he's doing a solo record (he's doing double-duty, working on his album and the LP album simultaneously). The project is called Dead By Sunrise, and the album is being produced by Howard Benson
Howard Benson

Howard Benson is a two time Grammy nominated music producer and aerospace engineer.Benson attended Lower Merion High School until his graduation in 1974, he then went on to attend Drexel University receiving a B.S....
. He played me 9 songs, two of which had (amazing) vocals. I thought I could hear influences from T-Rex
T.Rex (band)

'T.Rex' were an English rock music band fronted by guitarist, singer and songwriter Marc Bolan. Formed as 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' in 1960s London, the folk rock group's debut album My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair......
 to Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an England pop rock band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the Mod -influenced Graduate , they were initially associated with the New Wave music synthesizer bands of the early 1980s, but later branched out into mainstream rock and pop which led to...
, but overall it's a pretty punch-you-in-the-gut rock record. Very cool...look for it later this year, probably September-ish. It's going to be incredible!" The post was later removed without further explanations. The post was later reposted on Mike's blog.

Unconfirmed track listing

On Julien-K
Julien-K

Julien-K began as a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy , with the later addition of Brandon Belsky and Elias Andra....
's official website, a picture was posted that shows a potential track listing for the upcoming album. The list contains the following titles (most of which are just working titles):

  1. "Morning After
    Morning After

    "Morning After" is a song written by Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. The song was written by Bennington before he joined Linkin Park. It will release under the name of his side-band, Dead by Sunrise....
    " - Confirmed
  2. "Let Down" - Confirmed
  3. "My Suffering" - Confirmed
  4. "Darkness"
  5. "N2U"
  6. "Wall of Sound"
  7. "Instrumental"
  8. "Fire"
  9. "Hold Life"
  10. "20¥2"
  11. "Give Me Your Name" - Confirmed
  12. "Introutro"
  13. "Walking in Circles" - Confirmed
  14. "Morning After" (Possibly the Julien-K Remix)
  15. "Crawl Back In" (not among the unconfirmed track list)


On mikeshinoda.com another picture was released with Chester holding a CD. The CD contained the numbers "Give Me Your Name" and "Crawl Back In". This means the unconfirmed track listing is not the right one.

In concert

The song "Let Down" has already been played at ReAct Now Music & Relief Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert in Nashville. Also, the song "Morning After" has been played acoustically live in 2001.

On May 10, 2008, Dead by Sunrise performed for the first time ever three songs ("Walking In Circles", "Morning After", and "My Suffering") from the upcoming album at the 13th anniversary party for Club Tattoo in Tempe
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, Arizona
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