The rock and steel world stood nonetheless when iconic Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington died in July 2017. Shedding such a larger-than-life determine in such upsetting circumstances affected numerous folks, spurring tribute performances and a reevaluation of the way in which we deal with psychological well being in the US. Deliver Me the Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes is without doubt one of the individuals who participated within the Bennington tribute at Hollywood Bowl in 2017; he described the expertise as “unreal” in an interview with WRIF.

“I suppose one of the simplest ways to explain it might be bittersweet. Clearly [it was] simply an unreal expertise for me, however slightly below the worst doable circumstances. So, yeah, it’s… I don’t know. I feel it’s laborious to course of issues like that.

“I by no means actually say a lot when well-known folks die that you just don’t actually know however meant so much to you as a result of a part of me is, like, what proper do I’ve to speak about this particular person? I didn’t know them. Simply because their musical, no matter they did, did a lot for me… It’s bizarre. I get it’s form of like imposter syndrome. I really feel like a chunk of me has died, but additionally like I didn’t actually know this particular person. So it’s a very laborious factor to course of.”

Sykes harassed that he didn’t know Bennington, so it felt like a surreal expertise acting at his memorial.

“I undoubtedly felt like part of my childhood died when [Chester] died, of my innocence. I don’t know. However I didn’t cry as a result of I didn’t know him as an individual. [I felt] a form of disbelief, I suppose. And the identical once we performed the gig. It was virtually such as you’re not doing what you’re truly doing; you’re not truly eager about it like what it truly is. Like I’m right here, stood up… It’s mainly his funeral; I’m enjoying his funeral. You don’t give it some thought like that. You simply do it. I don’t know. Grief’s bizarre.”

Deliver Me the Horizon are presently on tour with Fall Out Boy.