Casey Chaos, frontman and founding member of Los Angeles steel/punk outfit Amen, has died on the age of 59. Affirmation of the unhappy information got here through the band’s official Facebook web page.
In a press release within the social media publish, the band mourned the lack of its singer and mastermind, revealing that Casey and Amen had been engaged on an unannounced challenge for the previous 5 – 6 years — presumably the long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s Dying Earlier than Musick.
The Fb publish learn:
“It’s with nice unhappiness, grief and sorrow that we affirm the passing of Casey Chaos after seeing the information at present being reported. As you possibly can think about, everybody within the band, previous and current, are completely devastated.
There was rather a lot happening with Amen previously 5-6 years that we didn’t announce. Casey beloved and appreciated your help, and at all times needed to attend till issues have been full, slightly than sharing unfinished work-in-progress materials.
The remainder of us are going to replicate on the methods we are able to 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’ve got about Casey on this publish…
For our half, we are going to share extra in time.
REFUSE AMEN, LONG LIVE CHAOS.
Goodbye, brother.”
Elsewhere, Cleopatra Information founder and CEO Brian Perera paid tribute to the late singer on Facebook:
“I had the privilege of working with Casey throughout his unforgettable dwell efficiency with Christian Dying on the American Legion Corridor again in 1993. Strolling into the corridor with my good buddy Matt Inexperienced and my spouse, Yvonne, was an expertise I’ll always remember — particularly seeing Nicolas Cage sitting front-row middle, fully captivated.
Touring with Slipknot, Coal Chamber and others, Amen have been a key determine on the late Nineteen Nineties steel scene, successful approval for the albums ‘Amen’, ‘We Have Come For Your Dad and mom’ and ‘Dying Earlier than Musick’; subsequent tasks embody Headband, Scars on Broadway and Scum, whereas a fourth Amen album was seldom removed from Chaos’s thoughts.
Casey wasn’t simply a rare musician,” Perera continued. “He actually lived and breathed the life-style.
Could he relaxation in peace alongside Rozz Williams and the various 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 Nineteen Nineties iteration of deathrock act Christian Dying — showing on the dwell album Iconologia from 1993 — earlier than forming Amen in 1994.
Mixing hardcore punk with the burgeoning different steel sound of the period, Amen would signal to Roadrunner Information for his or her correct debut, a self-titled effort, in 1999. The band would get pleasure from major-label help for its subsequent two albums, 2000’s We Have Come for Your Dad and mom, and 2004’s Dying Earlier than Musick.
Through the years, Amen had a revolving-door lineup surrounding Chaos, together with everybody from Dying Grips’ Zach Hill to Acey Slade, although the group was inactive for a lot of the previous 20 years other than 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 mild.
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.
