Salome

Good call with the Mayhem post.

I can't really beat that, but i always found Mark Sandman's death quite interesting.

He was the lead singer and bassist for the band Morphine. He died onstage in Italy of a heart attack. He was 46 years old.
The strange thing was that before he got into bands he worked as a taxi driver in Boston and one night one of his punters stabbed him in the heart. He survived, but was obviously never the same health-wise.
If you haven't heard of Morphine, listen to them NOW! They are truly something else.

Also, R.I.P. to Peter Steele from Type O Negative- not really an "interesting" death (it feels so wrong to type those words) but a great big gorgeous giant of a man.

Necromancer

I always liked the original funked up style of the band INXS with Michael Hutchence on lead vocals, (good stage presence), this is one of my favorite singles, Great song for the weekend.

YouTube - INXS - New Sensation - RMX

Insane Guest

On Oct. 20, 1977, legendary Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour plane crashed in Mississippi, killing six, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines.



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Known as "The Day The Music Died"



At about 1:00 am in February 3, 1959, the plane carrying three of rock music's brightest stars took off into a blinding snow storm and crashed into Albert Juhl’s corn field about fifteen miles northwest of Mason City in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. Here's a shot of the same field, taken in 1999.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Jiles P. Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson were dead.




Both tragic stories, there is more to it if you are interested. R.I.P.

Hank The Drifter

I'm sure most people know who Cliff Burton is, but for those of you that don't he was Metallicas bassist on the first three album. His death is an extremely bizarre one, in my opinion. Burton was crushed to death by a bus.

During Metallicas tour for Master of Puppets the band was spending a lot of time on their tour bus. Cliff Burton complained about having to sleep in a small cramped area on the bus, so Kirk Hammett and Cliff decided to draw cards too see who got to sleep where on the bus. Burton won the game and wanted to sleep in Hammett's bunk by the window. So, that evening Burton laid down in Hammetts bunk to get some sleep. A bit before seven AM while riding down the interstate in Sweden the bus, according to the driver, hit some black ice and flipped off the road throwing Burton out of the window and crushing him under the bus. However, its commonly believed that the bus driver was drunk and there was no black ice. The accident was investigated, and such and never was there any evidence of black ice. The driver was never charged with anything. Cliff Burton was 24 years old when he was killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Burton#Death

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