THE GLORY DAZE

WhThe year was 1994, and though every man and his dog was embracing the golden age of grunge, the eruptive rise of nu-metal was right around the corner. One of its most notable mainstream pioneers, Linkin Park’s late frontman Chester Bennington, was hard at work building a bridge between the two genres in Grey Daze, churning out some loveably loose and rivetingly raw bangers that sounded years ahead of their time.

25 years later, and Grey Daze is largely a thing of legend – their demos lost to the obsoletion of the formats on which they were distributed, and the stories of their life-altering live shows restricted to the underground scene in Arizona they called home before disbanding in ’98.

Or, that was until a few months ago. Three years on since Chester’s passing, his former bandmates (alongside a wickedly talented crew of old friends like Korn’s Head and