Earlier this year, Crazy Town singer Shifty Shellshock, real name Seth Binzer, passed away following an apparent overdose. Binzer was only 49 years old.
Crazy Town came to prominence in 2000 on the back of No. 1 single “Butterfly.” The band’s debut album, “The Gift of Game,” sold more than a million copies, and the group toured with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and made an appearance on Ozzfest.
The Daily Mail has reported the combination of drugs that led to Binzer’s passing. “The County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner determined the cause of death for the star as the effects of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine,” an article states. “The manner of death is accidental.”
Binzer’s struggles with addiction was well publicized, and the singer was open about his issues appearing on two seasons of VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab.”
“He was combining street drugs with anything that he could get, and some of them were prescription too, like methamphetamines,” his manager Howie Hubberman said. “He had gone through detox so many times and rehab so many times. It was just the system was not set up to help a guy like him, period. He had two or three prescriptions that he was able to fill at all times as long as he had the money. And then he would grab anything off the street he could get.”
