Chester Bennington To Fans Who Think Linkin Park Sold Out: 'I Will Punch You In Your F***ing Mouth'

Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has once again called out fans who say the band have sold out.

They’ve come under fire from some sections of their fan base because of the change in musical direction on new album One More Light. This led the singer to earlier this month tell fans to “move the f**k on” from their debut album Hybrid Theory.

And in a new interview with Kerrang (via The PRP) Bennington has again reacted angrily to those who say their new music was made for financial gain.

Bennington says: “Either you like the song or you don’t and if you don’t like the song because you hear it and on a kneejerk reaction it’s like, ‘Oh it doesn’t have metal in it so I don’t like it,’ that’s fine.

“But if you’re gonna be the person who says, ‘They made a marketing decision to make this kind of record to make money,’ you can f***ing meet me outside and I will punch you in your f***ing mouth because that is the wrong f***ing answer.

“Because guess what, calling us a sell out for that purpose is… selling out on your f***ing excuse as to why you don’t like it. You’re a f***ing pu**y.”

He continues: “For any band to take musical risks because you like what you’re doing in spite of what you know some people will say they don’t like – it doesn’t matter if they like it or not. What matters is that you took the chance to do something that you felt was important to you and that’s what being an artist is all about."

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