Chester Bennington died almost a year ago, and Linkin Park fans continue to grieve for the vocalist on a daily basis. They do question, though, if the band will survive without Chester. Mike Shinoda provides insight into his and his bandmates’ feelings following Chester’s passing and their thoughts on the future of LP in the inaugural episode of Inside the Studio, a brand-new podcast series on iHeartRadio.

Regarding if Linkin Park would continue, Mike said,

“I’m not sure. Isn’t that the most important question? And regrettably, as I’ve stated previously, there are currently no solutions to that question. If there were, that would be fantastic. It would be quite simple. I wish we were in a situation like that of Brian Johnson or Bon Scott, where we listen to the guy and he says, ‘This is the guy,’ and we all love hanging out with him and want to play with him. He literally said, ‘This is the guy,’ and we listen to him and he’s definitely the guy.

That isn’t typical. Really, no one else experienced that. We haven’t experienced that.”You have to have a conversation with all the guys if someone says, ‘Hey Linkin Park, do you want to play a show in Germany?’ There will be one guy who says, ‘I definitely don’t want to do it,’ another who says, ‘I don’t know, maybe, maybe we shouldn’t do it,’ and two guys who say, ‘We definitely need to do it,’ and then there are concerns.” That cacophony is too much for me to handle at the moment, and it’s not meant as a slight to others. I absolutely need some more simplicity in my decision-making process, but any one of us could be the minority voice or the outlier position on something.