Shifty Shellshock AKA Seth Binzer, the lead singer of Crazy Town, whose 2000 song “Butterfly” became an anthem, has died aged 49.
Binzer was recorded to have died yesterday by the LA Medical Examiner earlier and no cause of death was given.
The nu-metal star founded American rap rock group Crazy Town in 1995 in LA with Bret “Epic” Mazur.
The pair released tunes for several years until their debut album, The Gift of Game, saw them explode onto the scene with their third single, “Butterfly”.
That song became one of the anthems of the 2000s, with its signature “come my lady” chorus refrain repeated at parties everywhere. The song was also played in the opening sequence of Jack Nichloson and Diane Keaton movie Something’s Gotta Give.
Crazy Town released a second album, Darkhorse, in 2002, although it failed to reach the same levels of popularity as the first.
They broke up soon after, although reformed and released a third album, The Brimstone Sluggers, in 2015. In 2017, Mazur left the band and Binzer changed the name of the band to Crazy Town X.
