Shifty Shellshock of Crazy Town has died aged 49 (Picture: Medios y Media/Getty Images)
Singer Seth Binzer, better known as Shifty Shellshock, has died aged 49 according to the Los Angeles medical examiner.
A cause of death for the Crazy Town singer is not currently known, having died on June 24.
The Butterfly hitmaker has previously shared battled with substance abuse but eight weeks ago wrote an emotional post about his sobriety.
In 2012 he was admitted to hospital after losing consciousness and had been in a coma before being released.
‘I’m a lover than a fighter …but the one I need to love more Instead of fight with is myself .. mr shifty true Love # Sober alive and grateful (sic),’ he wrote on Instagram two months ago.
He is best known for Crazy Town’s 2000 hit song Butterfly which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks.
He is best known for his song Butterfly (Picture: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Rockefellas Studio)
It also charted at number one in several other countries including Austria, Denmark, and Norway.
Binzer met co-frontman Bret Mazur, in 1992, and they first went by the name Brimstone Sluggers.
In 1999, they formed Crazy Town and a year later they were due to tour as part of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s Ozzfest, but Binzer was arrested after he threw a chair out a window while intoxicated.
Over the years, Binzer appeared in reality shows such as Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 as well as Sober House 1and 2.
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