R.I.P Owen Sullivan.

December 29: Avenged Sevenfold band’s co-founder and drummer James Owen Sullivan died at his southern California home on Monday, confirmed Huntington Beach police and the band. He was 28.

The music band identified Sullivan not only as one of the world’s best drummers but also as a best friend and brother, in a message of condolence posted on its website.

A county newspaper reported that the Sullivan’s death is being probed by the Orange County coroner. The paper quoted the Huntington Beach police lieutenant John Domingo as saying that the drummer died of natural causes.

Founded in 1999, Avenged Sevenfold could hit No.4 on the US pop album chart in two years ago with its latest album that sold 500,000 copies. The band bagged the Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006.

‘A Little Piece of Heaven,’ to which Sullivan had contributed, was noted for its praise of necrophilia (sexual interest in dead bodies) and mass murder.

Nicknamed “the Rev,” Sullivan had been in the news for bad reasons since the metal magazine Revolver brought his proclivity for drugs like cocaine to light.

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