Chester Bennington’s son Jaime Bennington recently joined in for an interview with Growing Up In Scientology and talked about Linkin Park and Mike Shinoda. Jaime claimed that it looked like the band never continued to make new music but Shinoda was secretly running the band for years.
Jamie Bennington talks about Mike Shinoda
“The band is not Mike Shinoda’s band. Fort Minor, ‘The Rising Tied,’ ‘Post Traumatic,’ those are Mike’s solo projects,” he explained.
“I’ve antagonistically claimed that ‘Post Traumatic’ is actually a Linkin Park album and that they’ve never stopped Linkin Park — it’s just been undercover for multiple years experimenting with their process and on their audience using techniques that I believe are grooming techniques. I’ve spoken at length about in my Euphoria and ‘Post Traumatic’ highlights on my Instagram but also in my YouTube live streams.”
Jaime also talked about the evidence that Shinoda was manipulative:
“I feel like it’s important to acknowledge that Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, and Mike Shinoda are all co-founders of Linkin Park, whether or not Rob Bourdon is a part of Machine Shop Records or not. I think that it’s important to recognize that Mike Shinoda has been the only one to say anything about Rob Bourdon and that we’re all supposed to just take his word for it when we have copious amounts of evidence to prove that Mike Shinoda has been manipulative and he has been deceitful in this entire process and that he plans on utilizing the influence garnered through that deceit to his greatest benefit.”
Jaime recently launched a scathing attack on Mike Shinoda and Linkin Park since the band decided to keep touring and making new music with their new singer Emily Armstrong. He claimed that Shinoda tried to erase his father’s history from the band ‘during international suicide prevention month.’
Shinoda subtly responded to the comments in a show later. “It is not about erasing the past – it is about starting this new chapter into the future, and coming out here for each and every one of you,” he said.
The band is currently on tour and their next show is on September 22 in Hamburg, Germany.
