Grey Daze - Amends

Amends is the third album by American post grunge rock band Grey Daze, released in June 2020 via Lorna Vista.

Before Chester Bennington sang, screamed, and serenaded audiences of millions throughout his storied career in Linkin Park and a host of other projects, the frontman cut his teeth from 1993 to 1998 in his first proper band: Grey Daze.

In 2017, Chester announced the band's reunion which would see the surviving members re-working and re-recording a collection of songs they had started two decades ago. The project was shelved in July 2017. But with the blessing of Chester's family and widow, Talinda, the band regrouped in 2018 and the recently finished album represents an important, yet unheard chapter—the origin story of one of modern rock’s most recognizable voices—and also a full circle moment among friends.

Prior to his untimely passing, Chester personally announced a 2017 Grey Daze reunion on social media. As he never got the chance to launch the reunion himself, his bandmates, friends, family, and various collaborators stepped up to give the music the second chance it deserved, finishing what the late singer started. The musicians—long-time members Sean Dowdell (drums, backing vocals) and Mace Beyers (bass) as well as Cristin Davis (guitar) recruited in 2017—curated eleven tracks from their catalogue and re-recorded the music in 2019 to accompany Chester’s original vocals, which comprised many unheard takes from the vault.

Released by Tom Whalley’s Loma Vista Recordings and produced by Jay Baumgardner, the result illuminates the prophetic power of an icon on the cusp of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most significant revolutions and deepens his already venerable legacy in the process.

This album is a first pressing on black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Europe via Lorna Vista.