Maybe it’s the brutal weather and its attendant aggravations — the shoveling, the icy roads, the frozen pipes — but there was something deliciously cathartic about the moment Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington began repeatedly shrieking “put me out of my misery’’ while performing “Given Up’’ Tuesday night at the TD Garden. You could feel a ripple of eager agreement move through the crowd.
Given the abysmal traveling conditions and the failing health of commercial arena rock in general, it was a fairly sizable crew. Filling about two-thirds of the venue, including a packed general admission floor, the all-ages audience enthusiastically latched onto the opportunity to collectively blow off some steam with a finely calibrated soundtrack of howls and murmurs, big riffs and meditative burbles, stomping backbeats and intricate grooves provided by the California rockers.
