Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington found dead, aged 41

Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington has died aged 41 after an apparent suicide by hanging at home.

The 41-year-old Papercut singer was found dead at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles, at about 9 a.m. on Thursday.

Police responded to a call of a dead body in a house at Palos Verdes Estates, which is a suburb south of Los Angeles home, which law enforcement officials confirmed was the rock star’s home.

Mirror Online have contacted the singer’s representatives for comment.

Chester leaves behind his second wife Talinda and six children. His bandmate and fellow frontman, Mike Shinoda, paid tribute to Chester just hours after the news broke.

The rapper and singer wrote: “Shocked and heartbroken, but it’s true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.”

Linkin Park were one of the seminal bands of the Noughties rap-metal movement, with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, considered to be a metal masterpiece.

The band were in the middle of a world tour for their latest studio effort, One More Light, and had just wrapped up a European leg.

Their next date the band were scheduled was supposed to be was July 27 in Massachusetts.

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Linkin Park’s last concert date is believed to have been their date at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, following their shows in London.

Chester was one of the creative driving forces behind the Californian six-piece, who first rose to prominence alongside the likes of Limp Bizkit.

The band first formed in 1996, but it was with 2000’s Hybrid Theory that they rose to prominence with hit-singles Crawling, One Step Closer, and In The End.

The band have released seven albums to date, with the last being Once More Light, which came out in May of this year.

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Other credits for them include sound-tracking Michael Mann’s Transformers film.