Dread Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 Wow. Can't say a guy who made his living in prison jumpsuits wearing masks and screaming all night dying surprises me but still kind of sucks. Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 Nu-Metal has lost one of it's... performers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 Shit. I was a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolette Opal Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 So that's Dio, Pete Steele (Type O Negative), and now this guy. Guess metal deaths come in threes, too. How is that for a kick in the nuts, though--dying in fucking Iowa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 Live as you die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolette Opal Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 I think the way one dies says a lot about an individual. And dying in Iowa is just effing sad. Even for people from Iowa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 I'll be interested to hear how he died. Slipknot was pretty anti-drug for a while, if you can believe that, even firing a couple early members. But after a few interviews I've seen with Clown that scream cocaine I wonder if it's the same with Paul too. I too am a fan. Call them Nu Metal if you will but they are still head and shoulders above most of their peers. Edit: Some autopsy results expected today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2010 Sad. His wife is pregnant. Autopsy inconclusive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted May 26, 2010 Report Share Posted May 26, 2010 Jesus. They're all a wreck, understandably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2010 Yep. Pretty sad. I'm not sure there will be a Slipknot anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Pills and syringe found near body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 Unfortunately, it was an OD of morphine that killed him. Slipknot bassist Paul Gray's death two months ago was from an accidental morphine overdose, the Polk County, Iowa, medical examiner said Monday. Gray, 38, was found dead by staff at a hotel near Des Moines, Iowa on May 24, said Sgt. Dave Disney of the Urbandale Police Department. Toxicology test results showed a fatal level of morphine and fentanyl -- a synthetic morphine -- in Gray's body, said Dr. Gregory Schmunk. Schmunk also noted the presence of significant heart disease, according to a police statement Monday. The autopsy did show that Gray had been dead for several hours before his body was found, Schmunk said. Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot -- whose fans are affectionately known as "maggots" -- was formed in Des Moines in late 1995 and became immediately recognizable for the dark and often grotesque homemade Halloween masks its nine members wore on stage. The band won a Grammy award in 2006 for best metal performance for "Before I Forget." Slipknot's self-titled debut album went platinum in 2000. Its fourth album, "All Hope is Gone," spent 69 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 charts, debuting at No. 1 its first week in 2008. Gray was arrested in Iowa in 2003 on drug possession charges when police found small amounts of marijuana, two syringes and a substance that field-tested positive for cocaine after he was involved in a wreck with another motorist. Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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