Insane Town frontman Seth “Shifty Shellshock” Binzer desired to get assist for his drug habit just before he died this week, according to his manager, who on Thursday disclosed the musician’s trigger of loss of life.
Howie Hubberman, who represented the Los Angeles indigenous, confirmed that the Nuts City co-founder and former actuality star died of an accidental drug overdose, Persons described. Binzer died Monday, in accordance to the Los Angeles County Clinical Examiner. He was 49.
Binzer “never was capable to get to out on a far more profitable stage to offer with his addictions,” Hubberman told People today in a assertion published Thursday.
He additional: “We all tried out, but eventually, we all failed, or Shifty would nevertheless be below.”
Binzer shaped Nuts City, the rap-rock band powering the 2000 strike “Butterfly,” with Bret “Epic” Mazur in Los Angeles in 1995. The team break up in 2003 but reunited in 2007.
Binzer was also a fact star who was open about his battle with addiction on tv reveals from 2008 to 2010, such as “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” and “Sober Home.”
The Los Angeles County Health-related Examiner said Binzer died at his property but did not disclose a lead to of dying amid the ongoing investigation. Hubberman, however, disclosed that Binzer’s cause of dying “was a combination of prescription medicine and road-obtained medication.”
“Shifty was a mate and definitely wanted to get himself mounted,” Hubberman instructed People today. “Unfortunately no just one had the actual equipment to do this, myself involved.”
Mazur, in a statement posted Tuesday to Facebook, also reflected on his late collaborator’s addiction fight, a single Binzer “continuously fought privately and publicly.”
“Despite the hardships, he brought enormous joy and power into the life of all those all over him,” Mazur explained. “I wish with all my heart that his story could have finished in different ways, but we obtain solace in the hope that Seth has at last located the peace he was seeking for so desperately all these many years.”
The Nuts Town co-founder included: “His spirit will dwell on in the songs we created and in the hearts of those who cherished him.”
Mazur departed Ridiculous Town in 2017, and Binzer continued recording below the title Crazy Town X. In February, Outrageous Town X introduced the four-keep track of EP “Flirting With Disaster.”