Slipknot bassist Paul Gray was found dead in a hotel in Urbandale, IA today. Gray reports KCCI Des Moines was found six hours in a Marriott hotel. This backup of a previous post on the Examiner in Des Moines. Gray was 38. He leaves behind his wife, Brenna Paul, who is expecting a child. According to the examiner, the preliminary reports from the scene indicate a drug overdose as the cause of death.
It is seriously unhappy one year death metal than you think. In little over a month, we lost Peter Steele, Ronnie James Dio, and now Paul Gray. If this is true to prove a drug-related, is a very unfortunate turn of circumstances of a metal more popular. All this is preliminary, but Gray leaves a wife and a child to grow up having never known his father, is the final step selfish.
Formed in 1995, during Slipknot nu-metal with the same name on disk. Well known first appearance and hide, nine members of the band later conquered by many fans, who initially rejected by a combination of them pregnant, and their impressive stage show. Slipknot, first three albums have all gone platinum. The fourth, 2008's All Hope is Gone was their first attempt is the # 1 platinum and ice later this year.
