Amends (album)

Grey Daze was given permission by Bennington's widow, Talinda, to continue working on the project granted that they didn't change Chester's voice.[18] In late December, Massy confirmed the sessions would be resumed. According to her, the music would be modernized for the current market using master tapes recorded in the late nineties.[19] However, the band did not move forward with her[12] and Jason Barnes was absent from the project after 2017.

Originally planning to fund the project by himself and release it on iTunes, Dowdell was encouraged by Rene Mata to make it something special for Bennington's fans with a wide release and helped connect him with producer Jay Baumgardner. The band then reached out to former Warner Bros. Records executive Tom Whalley to release the album through his Loma Vista Recordings.[20] Once they started working on it again, they decided to start over, strip all the songs down and start from scratch.

Dowdell said, "We reverse engineered a lot of the music. We took all the music away, we kept the vocal track and the lyrics that was there - that was all Chester. We kept the integrity and the intention of all of the vocals, intact from its original inception. We actually rewrote all of the music to every single song from the ground up."[21] They worked on Bennington's vocals for two months before working on the music. Writing the instrumentals took about a year and half and recording took almost another year and a half.[22] Besides Bennington's original vocals from Wake Me and ...No Sun Today, previously unreleased alternate takes were also used on the songs.[23][24]

They worked at Salt Mine Studios and NRG Recording Studios with several musician friends of Bennington or artists that he loved which included Ryan Shuck (Julien-K), Marcos Curiel (P.O.D.), Jaime Bennington (Chester's son), Chris Traynor (Bush), Brian "Head" Welch and James "Munky" Shaffer (Korn),[25] LP (Laura Pergolizzi), Carston Dowdell and Brennen Brochard (Sean's sons), Heidi Gadd,[26] Carah Faye (Shiny Toy Guns), Jasen Rauch (Breaking Benjamin, Love and Death (band))[12] and Pete Nappi (Ocean Park Standoff).[27] They also had Esjay Jones and Lucas D'Angelo (Betraying the Martyrs) in the production team.[28]

On June 9, 2019, Grey Daze confirmed they had wrapped up the project[29] and by August they had mixed the album.[30] Draven Bennington was also asked to sing on the album but declined because it was difficult for him to listen to his father's voice at the time.[31] The album title was taken from the lyrics of "Morei Sky". Dowdell said, "After Chester passed, being a close friend, you carry this amount of guilt, like, 'What did I miss? What did I not see? How could I have let this happen to my friend? How could I have prevented this?' You go through these emotional roller coasters. And then you read those lyrics and go, 'How the fuck did I not see he was in such a dark place?' It's one of those things where it sheds a little bit more light onto who he was deep down and the thoughts that went through his mind." According to him, they have enough material for one or two additional Grey Daze albums which might be released if Amends gets a good response. Some proceeds from the sales will benefit Talinda Bennington's 320 Changes Direction and other portions of the proceeds have been allocated for Chester Bennington's kids.