Mike Shinoda’s ‘Post Traumatic’ Is A Sad Album Yet Serves As A Catharsis For Linkin Park Fans As Much As For Him

‘Post Traumatic’ by Mike Shinoda, is a sad album. There’s no getting past it. Written in the shadow of the suicide of his friend and Linkin Park bandmate, Chester Bennington, Shinoda uses the deeply personal album as a catharsis to work through his feelings. The 16 track full length album follows on from the EP of the same name, released in January this year.

Your Persona – ‘Hate Is A Strong Word’

New Jersey natives Your Persona are a post-hardcore quartet, comprising friends who got together as a bit of fun, back in 2008. The group released their first official tracks between 2013 and 2015, the EPs ‘So Easy’, and ‘Metatastic’. Life seemed to be going only up, when lead singer and main songwriter Matt Campione was diagnosed with cancer. Fighting the illness for two years, he finally won the battle, and the band returned to the scene with their third EP, ‘When In Limbo’, in 2016.