Casey Chaos, frontman and founding member of Los Angeles metallic/punk outfit Amen, has died on the age of 59. Affirmation of the unhappy information got here through the band’s official Fb web page.
In a press release within the social media put up, the band mourned the lack of its singer and mastermind, revealing that Casey and Amen had been engaged on an unannounced mission for the previous 5 or 6 years — presumably the long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s Demise Earlier than Musick.
The Fb put up learn:
“It’s with nice disappointment, grief and sorrow that we affirm the passing of Casey Chaos after seeing the information at present being reported. As you’ll be able to think about, everybody within the band, previous and current, are completely devastated.
There was rather a lot occurring with Amen previously 5-6 years that we didn’t announce. Casey beloved and appreciated your assist, and at all times needed to attend till issues have been full, relatively than sharing unfinished work-in-progress materials.
The remainder of us are going to replicate on the methods we will honour Casey in the best way he deserves; to have his genius, expertise and coronary heart celebrated and skilled by the world and the individuals who appreciated it.
Please share any optimistic recollections you will have about Casey on this put up…
For our half, we’ll share extra in time.
REFUSE AMEN, LONG LIVE CHAOS.
Goodbye, brother.”
Elsewhere, Cleopatra Data founder and CEO Brian Perera paid tribute to the late singer on Fb:
“I had the privilege of working with Casey throughout his unforgettable stay efficiency with Christian Demise on the American Legion Corridor again in 1993. Strolling into the corridor with my good good friend Matt Inexperienced and my spouse, Yvonne, was an expertise I’ll always remember — particularly seeing Nicolas Cage sitting front-row heart, utterly captivated.
Touring with Slipknot, Coal Chamber and others, Amen have been a key determine on the late Nineties metallic scene, profitable approval for the albums ‘Amen’, ‘We Have Come For Your Dad and mom’ and ‘Demise Earlier than Musick’; subsequent initiatives embody Headband, Scars on Broadway and Scum, whereas a fourth Amen album was seldom removed from Chaos’s thoughts.
Casey wasn’t simply a unprecedented musician,” Perera continued. “He really lived and breathed the life-style.
Could he relaxation in peace alongside Rozz Williams and the numerous tortured souls we admire and respect.”
Chaos (actual identify Karim Chmielnski) was born in Trenton, New York, however grew up in Florida, the place he fashioned the punk band Disorderly Conduct in his youthful years. After relocating to Los Angeles, he would briefly play bass for the early Nineties iteration of deathrock act Christian Demise — showing on the stay album Iconologia from 1993 — earlier than forming Amen in 1994.
Mixing hardcore punk with the burgeoning various metallic sound of the period, Amen would signal to Roadrunner Data for his or her correct debut, a self-titled effort, in 1999. The band would take pleasure in major-label assist for its subsequent two albums, 2000’s We Have Come for Your Dad and mom, and 2004’s Demise Earlier than Musick.
Over time, Amen had a revolving-door lineup surrounding Chaos, together with everybody from Demise Grips’ Zach Hill to Acey Slade, although the group was inactive for a lot of the previous 20 years except for a reunion gig at Knotfest in 2014. Round that point, a brand new Amen album was reportedly within the works with producer Ross Robinson, although it has by no means come to gentle.
We ship our condolences to Casey Chaos’s household, buddies, and the Amen camp. See video of him performing with Amen, in addition to numerous social media tributes under.