Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds

2017 single by Linkin Park and Steve Aoki

"Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"

Single by Linkin Park and Steve Aoki
Released| September 8, 2017
Recorded| 2017
Genre| EDM
Length| 4:04
Label|

* Warner Bros.
* Dim Mak

Songwriter(s)|

* Linkin Park
* Steve Aoki

Producer(s)| Steve Aoki
Linkin Park singles chronology
| "Talking to Myself"
(2017)  | "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"
(2017)  | "One More Light"
(2017)

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Steve Aoki singles chronology
| "Lit"
(2017)  | "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"
(2017)  | "$4,000,000"
(2017)

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"Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds" (also known as "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds (Chester Forever Steve Aoki Remix)") is a mashup remix song by American electro house musician Steve Aoki.[1] Remixing and mashing up the songs "A Light That Never Comes" and "Darker Than Blood", both of which were collaboratively written and recorded by Linkin Park and Aoki, it is a tribute by Aoki to Linkin Park's late lead singer Chester Bennington following his death.[2][3][4][5] It was released as a single on September 8, 2017.

## Background

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The song was mashed up and remixed by Steve Aoki.[6] It is a mashup of Aoki and Linkin Park's previous two collaborations, "A Light That Never Comes", which was released in 2013 from Linkin Park's second remix album Recharged, and "Darker Than Blood" from Aoki's third studio album Neon Future II. The song was released as a tribute from the DJ to Chester Bennington after the former's death nearly a month before the release. Aoki tweeted that all the proceedings from the single would be donated in Chester's name to Music for Relief's One More Light fund, which was open for suicide prevention and named after the band's latest studio album.[7]

## Charts

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Chart performance for "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"  Chart (2017)  | Peak
position

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US Dance/Electronic Digital Songs (Billboard)[8] | 20

## References

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1. ^ "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds (Chester Forever Steve Aoki Remix) - Single by LINKIN PARK on Apple Music". iTunes. Apple Inc. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
2. ^ Tenreyro, Tatyana (September 8, 2017). "Steve Aoki Shares Linkin Park Mash-Up in Honor of Chester Bennington, 'Darker Than The Light That Never Bleeds'". Billboard. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
3. ^ "Steve Aoki Honors Chester Bennington With Linkin Park Mash-Up, 'Darker Than The Light That Never Bleeds'". Fuse. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
4. ^ Lynch, Joe (July 20, 2017). "Chester Bennington Dead at 41". Billboard. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
5. ^ O'Connor, Roisin (July 20, 2017). "Chester Bennington dead: Linkin Park released new music video hours before singer's apparent suicide". The Independent. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
6. ^ McCreesh, Louise (September 8, 2017). "New Linkin Park remix 'Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds' released by Steve Aoki". Digital Spy. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
7. ^ "STEVE AOKI And LINKIN PARK Release 'Darker Than The Light That Never Bleeds' In Memory Of CHESTER BENNINGTON". Blabbermouth.net. September 8, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
8. ^ "Linkin Park Chart History (Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales". Billboard. Retrieved November 30, 2022.

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Linkin Park songs

* Discography
* Awards and nominations

Hybrid Theory|

* "Papercut"
* "One Step Closer"
* "Points of Authority"
* "Crawling"
* "Runaway"
* "In the End"
* "She Couldn't" (20th Anniversary Edition)

Reanimation|

* "Pts.OF.Athrty"

Meteora|

* "Somewhere I Belong"
* "Lying from You"
* "Faint"
* "Breaking the Habit"
* "From the Inside"
* "Numb"
* "Lost" (20th Anniversary Edition)
* "Fighting Myself" (20th Anniversary Edition)

Collision Course|

* "Numb/Encore"

Minutes to Midnight|

* "Given Up"
* "Leave Out All the Rest"
* "Bleed It Out"
* "Shadow of the Day"
* "What I've Done"

A Thousand Suns|

* "Burning in the Skies"
* "Waiting for the End"
* "Blackout"
* "Wretches and Kings"
* "Iridescent"
* "The Catalyst"

Living Things|

* "Lost in the Echo"
* "In My Remains"
* "Burn It Down"
* "I'll Be Gone"
* "Castle of Glass"
* "Powerless"

Recharged|

* "A Light That Never Comes"

The Hunting Party|

* "Keys to the Kingdom"
* "All for Nothing"
* "Guilty All the Same"
* "Wastelands"
* "Until It's Gone"
* "Rebellion"
* "Final Masquerade"

One More Light|

* "Good Goodbye"
* "Talking to Myself"
* "Battle Symphony"
* "Invisible"
* "Heavy"
* "One More Light"

Papercuts|

* "Friendly Fire"
* "Qwerty"

From Zero|

* "The Emptiness Machine"
* "Heavy Is the Crown"
* "Over Each Other"
* "Two Faced"

Featured songs|

* "We Made It"
* "Darker Than Blood"

Other songs|

* "New Divide"
* "Not Alone"
* "Rolling in the Deep"
* "White Noise"
* "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"

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Steve Aoki

* Discography

Studio albums|

* Wonderland (2012)
* Neon Future I (2014)
* Neon Future II (2015)
* Steve Aoki Presents Kolony (2017)
* Neon Future III (2018)
* Neon Future IV (2020)
* Hiroquest: Genesis (2022)
* Hiroquest 2: Double Helix (2023)

Mixtapes|

* Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles (2008)

Extended plays|

* It's the End of the World as We Know It (2012)
* A Light That Never Comes (Remixes) (2014)

Singles|

* "I'm in the House"
* "Turbulence"
* "No Beef"
* "Livin' My Love"
* "Beat Down"
* "Boneless"
* "A Light That Never Comes"
* "Delirious (Boneless)"
* "Darker Than Blood"
* "Back 2 U"
* "Just Hold On"
* "Lit"
* "Darker Than the Light That Never Bleeds"
* "All Night"
* "Pretender"
* "Jaleo"
* "Waste It on Me"
* "Used to Be"

Featured singles|

* "We're All No One"
* "Bored to Death (Steve Aoki Remix)"
* "Welcome to the Black Parade (Steve Aoki Remix)"

Related articles|

* Dim Mak Records
* I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
* 3 Are Legend

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* MusicBrainz release group

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