Linkin Park's Chester Bennington responds to hate at Hellfest
This past weekend, Linkin Park headlined Hellfest festival in France, which typically caters to a metal audience. According to THEPRP, some of the festivalgoers weren’t too happy about it the headliner not fitting the bill.
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In this fan shot video you can see someone throw a beer pitcher at Chester Bennington, and numerous audience members giving him the finger.
Read Bennington's Twitter response to the metal fans' hate below:
Hell fest was fun. Had a blast watching people mosh to In the End and then flip me off when we played Heavy. I blew them kisses��
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
After I blew kisses to the guys flipping me off. They smiled and gave me heart hands back.
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
I welcomed the huge crowd of condemned souls to HELLFEST in my metal voice then we played Invisible. The look of shock on people's faces����
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
All kidding aside…. the crowd was great and handled our set pretty well. Our French fans are awesome.
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
Does anyone else find it funny that the same people calling us sellouts are suggesting that we change our set to conform to HELLFEST ��
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) June 19, 2017
Chester Bennington has been known to take to Twitter, like last month when Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor reminded him to “be fortunate” after Benningont's complaints that fans were comparing Hybrid Theory and One More Light.
What do you think? Would you be upset if Linkin Park headlined a metal fest in your hometown, or would you be psyched? Let us know in the comments below!
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