‘Butterfly’ Singer Shifty Shellshock Dead at 49

Insane City singer Shifty Shellshock, who built the enduring rap-rock strike “Butterfly,” has died. He was 49. Los Angeles County Health-related Examiner documents exhibit Shellshock, a.k.a. Seth Binzer, died at house on June 24, with no lead to disclosed. Shellshock 1st formed a rap-rock band identified as the Brimstone Sluggers with then-producer Bret “Epic” Mazur in the mid-1990s will.i.am launched the pair all through a recording session for his early group Atban Klann. Brimstone Sluggers expanded their lineup and changed their name to Ridiculous Town in 1999 ahead of releasing their debut album, The Present of Video game, on Columbia Information. That album manufactured minor influence right until the band afterwards produced their tune “Butterfly” as a solitary in 2000. Developed all-around a Purple Scorching Chili Peppers sample and an earworm chorus created by Shellshock, it finally reached No. 1 on the Hot 100, the only chart-topping strike of the nü-metal period.

“Butterfly” also made Outrageous City a single-hit miracles, however — none of their music afterward hit the Hot 100, and their 2002 adhere to-up album, Darkhorse, peaked at No. 120. They broke up in 2003. As a solo artist, Shellshock guested on producer Paul Oakenfold’s insignificant hit “Starry Eyed Surprise” in 2002 and launched a solo album, Delighted Really like Ill, in 2004. Shellshock afterwards appeared on the initial and next seasons of Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew for a cocaine dependancy and on two seasons of the adhere to-up show Sober House.

After reforming in 2007, Outrageous Town launched the album The Brimstone Sluggers in 2015 and ongoing to tour. Shellshock produced headlines last calendar year for receiving in a combat with Nuts City guitarist Bobby Reeves that got the band kicked off the Nu-Steel Insanity 2 tour. (Jared Gomes, singer of coheadliners (hed)p.e., said Shellshock “needs help” afterward.) The legacy of “Butterfly” carries on to endure, although — final 12 months, pop-rock singer Gayle interpolated the song for her contribution to the Barbie soundtrack, “butterflies.”