Singer Shifty Shelchuk from the American band Crazy Town has died. The band topped the charts in 2001 with the song butterfly. The singer was found dead in his home in Los Angeles. He was 49 years old. Nothing is known yet about the cause of death.

Shifty Shellshock was the stage name of Seth Binzer. He entered the music world in the early 1990s with the band Brimstone Sluggers, which a few years later morphed into Crazy Town. Their debut album was released in November 1999 Game gift Out, right butterfly stood up.

butterfly It was intentionally not released as the first single from the album, but only in 2001 as the third single. Crazy Town played metal, rap and rock and did not want to give the audience the expectation of only writing quiet, “butterfly-like” songs. “That’s not who we are,” the guitarist said in 2001.

However, this became the song that the band made its way through and is primarily remembered for. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the Netherlands, it reached fifth place on the Top 40 song list.

The band broke up in 2003, and reunited in 2007. Eventually, Crazy Town released three albums.

In the years following his biggest success, Shellshock struggled with addiction. Last year, he was in the news due to a fight with a band member and Crazy Town had to stop touring.