Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Is Beginning The Healing Process In New Solo Videos

Back in January, Mike Shinoda — one of the two key voices beyond Linkin Park — shared three songs from an EP called Post Traumatic he'd written right following the death of his bandmate Chester Bennington. They were (and remain) gripping explorations of grief, and so they arrived with three stark, personalized, and DIY-shot videos that show Shinoda wearing his struggle on his face.


Those tracks have led to an even larger project — a full album called Post Traumatic due out June 15, Shinoda reported on Thursday (March 29). Its first two singles, "Crossing a Line" and "Nothing Makes Sense Anymore," are out right now, complete with visuals.


In the opening, Shinoda spends time singing in his vehicle and on the street, and in the next, clips captured from a traveling car contrast with ones of Shinoda delivering the song in a seemingly desolate place. They're both striking for how ordinary they are, in keeping with Shinoda's previous output from earlier this year.


"It's a journey out of grief and darkness, not into grief and darkness," Shinoda mentioned in a statement. "If people have been through something similar, I hope they feel much less alone. If they haven't been through this, I hope they feel grateful."


For Linkin Park fans, there has to be something comforting about seeing the co-leader of the musical group they love struggling to forge ahead just as they may be in the wake of Bennington's death.


Shinoda has mentioned previously that the remaining LP members would like to continue on with each other, yet that there were no immediate plans to do so up until they figured out what it may look like. So far, it looks like Shinoda's got his Post Traumatic project to keep him busy.


He's also spending some time on the road this summer, and also you could check out those dates (and get all of the data about Post Traumatic) over at his website.