RIP: Stuart Cable.

Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable  has been found dead, police have confirmed.

Cable, 40, was found in his Aberdare home this morning (June 7) at 5:30am (BST).

South Wales Police confirmed the sudden death of a 40 year-old man, and his mother Mable also announced the news.

She told Walesonline.co.uk: "Stuart has travelled all over the world with the band and I have worried myself silly. He is now settled down and then this has happened. It has not sunk in yet."

His brother Paul also released a statement. "The family has no further comment to make at this stage," he said. "It is in the hands of the police."

A cause of death has not yet been determined, though there are understood to be no suspicious circumstances involved at this stage.

The drummer was sacked from Stereophonics in 2003, and following his departure he went on to have a career in TV, radio and has hosted awards ceremonies.

Fellow Welshmen Manic Street Preachers are among those to pay tribute to Stuart Cable today, declaring their friend was a "gigantic personality".

-taken from nme.com

RIP: Paul Gray (Slipknot)

DES MOINES, Iowa – Paul Gray, the bassist for Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday in an Iowa hotel room, police said.

A hotel employee found Gray, 38, dead in a room at the Town Plaza Hotel in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines, police said in a statement. Foul play isn't suspected, and an autopsy is planned for Tuesday.

Amy Sciarretto, a publicist at the band's record company, Roadrunner Records, confirmed Gray's death but declined further comment. Most of the band's members grew up in the Des Moines area.

Slipknot's self-titled debut in 1999 sold more than a million copies.

Known for its grotesque masks, trashing sound and aggressive lyrics, the band won a Grammy in 2006 for best metal performance for the song "Before I Forget." Concert industry trade publication Pollstar ranked Slipknot 18th in its Top 20 Concert Tours list in 2009.

Andy Hall, music director of Des Moines rock station Lazer 103.3, said he'd known Gray for 10 years. He described him as a talented bass player who was also one of the friendliest, most caring people he knew.

"This is a big blow, not only to the community of Des Moines but fans of metal at large, worldwide," Hall said. "It's a devastating loss. Paul was a wonderful human being."

The station was planning to broadcast an hour-long tribute to Gray on Monday night.

[By LUKE MEREDITH, Associated Press Writer Luke Meredith, Associated Press Writer  – Mon May 24, 7:46 pm ET]

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.

news taken from http://www.khabrein.info

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