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DBS to play KROQ's Almost Acoustic

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

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

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

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

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

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 Ulalume 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?

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

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

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

More interviews with Dead by Sunrise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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.