Crazy Metropolis Lead Singer Shifty Shellshock Lifeless at 49

Seth Binzer — the lead singer and co-founder of the rap rock band Crazy Metropolis — has died.

Larger acknowledged by his stage determine Shifty Shellshock, Binzer handed away Monday at a residence in L.A., consistent with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. An investigation is underway to seek out out the explanation for dying.

In 1999, Binzer and fellow vocalist, Bret “Epic” Mazur, common Crazy Metropolis, hiring Rust Epique, Doug Miller, James Bradley Jr., Antonio Lorenzo Valli and Adam Goldstein.

The group launched its 2000 single, “Butterfly,” which rocketed to the very best of the Billboard Scorching 100 music chart. Their debut album, “The Reward Of Recreation,” was moreover profitable, selling larger than 1.5 million copies.

Nevertheless, their 2002 file, “Darkhouse,” crashed and burned with audiences and the band shortly broke up. Years later, they obtained once more collectively and launched a third album, “The Brimstone Sluggers.”

All through his lifetime, Binzer had only a few brushes with the laws. In 2011, he was arrested for having glorious warrants after police responded to a house squabble collectively together with his girlfriend in L.A. In 2023, Binzer was busted for driving beneath the have an effect on in South Carolina.

That exact same 12 months, Binzer and Bobby Reeves — who modified Mazur as co-vocalist — obtained proper right into a battle after a gift in Myrtle Seashore, SC. TMZ obtained video of the brawl, which captured Binzer giving Reeves a fairly good ass kicking. Nevertheless, Binzer was not arrested and Reeves chalked it as a lot as a “little scuffle,” saying he beloved Shifty.

Binzer was 49.