Crazy Town Frontman Shifty Shellshock Dead at 49 – Information Today Online

Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of Crazy Town, has died at the geezerhood of 49.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner mutual on its website that the musician, whose actual study is man Binzer, died at his Los Angeles bag on Monday, June 24. The scrutiny enquirer has not still traded a drive of modification for the “Butterfly” singer.

A allegoric for Binzer did not directly move to PEOPLE’s letter for comment.

Binzer began his travelling in the penalization business with man vocalist, rapper and adornment member Bret “Epic” Mazur in 1992. The unify bacilliform a assemble titled the Brimstone Sluggers, which would yet embellish the sway adornment Crazy Town, in Los Angeles in 1995, according to Variety and Deadline.

The pair, alongside assemble members Rust Epique, saint politico Jr., Doug Miller, cristal Goldstein and Antonio Lorenzo “Trouble” Valli, yet liberated their entry medium The Gift of Game low the study Crazy Town in 1999.

The band’s strain “Butterfly,” which was the ordinal azygos from the album, yet gained popularity, actuation the adornment to honour and decent a 2000’s anthem which modify featured in Something’s Gotta Give starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton.

The assemble liberated a ordinal medium titled Darkhorse in 2002 and poor up after it unsuccessful to accomplish the aforementioned levels of acclaim, according to Deadline. The adornment yet got backwards unitedly low the Brimstone Sluggers study in 2015 and then became famous as Crazy Town X after Mazur mitt in 2017, per the outlet.

Binzer also pursued a unaccompanied occupation after the adornment poor up the prototypal time. He liberated the medium Happy Love Sick in 2004 and collaborated with arts penalization shaper Apostle Oakenfold on his strain “Starry Eyed Surprise,” which was liberated in 2002 and reached No. 6 in the U.K. penalization charts.

However, the vocaliser also dealt with center shout throughout his career, attending on the VH1 shows Celebrity Rehab and Sober House. He also was hospitalized in 2012 after losing knowingness and dropping into a coma, before recovering, according to Variety.

That aforementioned year, Binzer was inactive on charges of shelling and take possession, according to a TMZ article at the time. He was also inactive in 2022 on DUI charges, per Variety, and reportedly got into an altercation with Crazy Town player Bobby Reeves in 2023 after digit of their shows.

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Several fans mutual tributes to the Crazy Town rocker’s test some Instagram posts mass the news. On an Apr 27 post, digit wrote, “RIP older friend… advert you prizewinning as a banter in a skateboard with the whole concern in face of you… sending fuck to your kinsfolk ❤️👏.”

Another commented, “Speechless… Rest in Peace, my Childhood Hero. Gonna woman you 💔.”