
Loopy The town vocalist Shifty Shellshock, genuine title is Seth Binzer, died following an unintended drug overdose, a spokesman for the singer has printed.
The rap-rock superstar was once discovered useless at his house in Los Angeles on June 24. He was once 49 years outdated.
The reason for demise, in step with a remark given to the Result of Sound site by way of his consultant, Howie Hubberman, was once an unintended drug overdose.
“Seth has been suffering with substance abuse issues for somewhat someday,” Hubberman stated in a remark. “Seth was once now not pleased with the day by day fight that’s referred to as existence. Some other folks cope in many various techniques. It’s unlucky we lose such a lot of other folks to habit and accessibility to damaging medicine. Shifty was once a real-life tragedy. Too speedy, too exhausting, too quickly.”
Binzer co-founded Loopy The town with co-vocalist Bret ‘Epic’ Mazur in 1995. The crowd had been best possible recognized for his or her 2001 US primary unmarried Butterfly, taken from their million-selling The Present Of Sport album, which was once launched in 1999.
Binzer struggled with habit all over his lifetime, and seemed at the truth tv programmes Superstar Rehab 1 and 2 and Sober Space 1 and 2.
Binzer unfolded about going sober in a social media put up in April.
He wrote on Instagram: “I’m a lover than a fighter …however the only I wish to love extra As an alternative of battle with is myself .. mr shifty true Love # Sober alive and thankful”
Binzer was once the 3rd member of Loopy The town to cross away. Guitarist Rust Epique died, elderly 36, following a 2004 middle assault, and DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein, died in 2009, elderly 36, from a drug overdose.
