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Paul Gray, the bassist as a replacement for Grammy-winning metal federate Slipknot, was found deathlike Monday in an Iowa hostelry office but putrefacient frolic wasn't suspected, police said.
A new zealand pub staff member develop Gray, 38, numb in a room at the TownePlace Suites in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines, police said in a statement. An autopsy was planned with a view Tuesday.
Amy Sciarretto, a publicist at the fillet's register company, Roadrunner Records, confirmed Gray's annihilation but declined auxiliary comment. Most of the bind's members grew up in the Des Moines area.
Known benefit of its preposterous masks, trashing be activated and litigious, brown lyrics, Slipknot released its self-titled enter in 1999. It sold about 2 million copies.
Andy Hall, music executive of Des Moines swing garrison Lazer 103.3, said he'd known Gray in place of 10 years. He described him as a crack bass player and at one of the friendliest, most caring people he knew.
"This is a socking mismanage, not only to the community of Des Moines but fans of metal at large, worldwide," Entry said. "It's a sarcastic loss. Paul was a wonderful fallible being."
The station was planning to proclaim an hour-long tribute to Gray on Monday night.
Slipknot emerged in the mid-1990s with an belligerent perplex of downhearted metal and a vocal line that included growling, rapping and singing. The tie has been known against different behavior during actual performances, including urinating and vomiting on manipulate, according to biographies.
The band won a Grammy in 2006 looking for most successfully metal exhibit over the extent of the song "Sooner than I Thoughts," and concert diligence employment hebdomedary Pollstar ranked Slipknot 18th in its Top 20 Concert Tours cant in 2009.
In 2003, Gray acknowledged that he was on drugs when his red 2001 Porsche collided with another car that year in Des Moines. No anybody was seriously injured. Out of sight a plea compatibility, prosecutors dropped charges of chattels of marijuana, cocaine and syringes. |
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