Lamb Of God's Mark Morton Says Chester Bennington Was 'Excited' To Tap Back Into Heavy Music With Collab

Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton has opened up about collaborating with Chester Bennington, sharing that the Linkin Park frontman was excited to work on heavy music again. 

“Cross Off is obviously a really special song,” Morton said in a recent interview with The Music. 

“If you listen to the early Linkin Park stuff, like Hybrid Theory, you can hear he's screaming his head off, and well. That was one of the things Chester was so excited about once we got in the studio, is that he was just thrilled to be able to kind of unleash that part of his voice again.

"Linkin Park has a long, illustrious career and a great body of work, but the more recent stuff wasn't nearly as heavy as what they started out with. So Chester was pretty excited and energised to be able to tap back into that.”

Bennington passed away in July 2017, at age 41. Morton says that listening to the track now is still "a very positive experience".

“We co-wrote that song lyrically, and the subject matter we're talking about is kind of dark at points. But the process of us working on that creatively, and being in the studio together and recording that was really positive. I have really fond memories of that time, so it's a positive thing for me."

Read the full interview with Morton here.