Amen frontman Casey Chaos has died on the age of 54.
His loss of life was first introduced in the present day (December 21) by Cleopatra Information founder and CEO Brian Perera and confirmed by Chaos’ buddies, musician Skum Love and Los Angeles photographer Dean Karr.
Amen bassist John Fahnestock later mentioned in an announcement: “With a heavy coronary heart and a tear in my eye I need to announce that we misplaced one other legend in the present day.
“I’ve misplaced two legendary frontmen in my profession and Casey has now additionally handed on. It’s was an absolute honor to have been in Amen and witnessed for sure the genius that was Casey Chaos.
“He was a drive not like no different earlier than him, a real artist, an uncompromising soul and a real punk rock icon! That is onerous for me. I sit right here going over all of the reminiscences. Simply speechless.”
Born in New York in 1970, Chaos was identified for his energetic stage persona and his work with different artists together with System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age, Scum and Christian Loss of life, Chaos – actual title Karim Chmielnski – was additionally a excessive stage skateboarder.
Amen fashioned in Los Angeles in 1994 and loved extra success within the UK than of their homeland. The band’s excessive level was 2000’s Ross Robinson-produced album We Have Come For Your Mother and father.
That was adopted up by 2004’s Loss of life Earlier than Musick, after which Amen went on a prolonged hiatus.
They resurfaced in 2014 Slayer’s Dave Lombardo on drums, though no music was launched by this lineup and Loss of life Earlier than Musick stays the band’s final official launch.
In a 2014 interview with Steel Hammer, Chaos mentioned: “I’m so grateful that folks love us or hate us, however keep in mind us. For me, its by no means been about commercialism, it’s been about following your coronary heart, destroying it at each single alternative you have got.
“There’s a lot of a scarcity of honesty in music, and it looks as if since I went away the mannequin is, develop into well-known, don’t learn to write songs or play them, simply go within the studio and lay them all the way down to a grid and make every part formulaic for the plenty.
“The entire tradition is simply fucked! Bands that really do discuss between songs say the identical factor each night time! That’s like a job!
“Good for them, however I might by no means try this. I want it to be unpredictable and I’d slightly have the ups and downs of melancholy and hatred and love, each fucking vibe there’s, that be like, ‘okay, we turned up in our rock’n’roll fits so that you can play a pleasant pleasant live performance.’ We’ll by no means be pleasant!”