singer Seth 'Shifty Shellshock' Brooks Binzer died from a drug overdose in June, and since then, the medical examiner has revealed which drugs caused his death. Shifty overdosed from the effects of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and , according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, according to TMZ. The medical examiner ruled that the Butterfly singer's death was accidental.
At the time of Shifty's death, his manager Howie Hubberman told TMZ that the entertainer overdosed after he combined prescription drugs and street drugs. Howie divulged to the news outlet that Shifty struggled to overcome his battles with drug addiction. First responders who arrived at Shifty's home in June found drug paraphernalia along with a lighter, leading there to be an immediate suspicion that his cause of death was .
According to the medical examiner, Shifty's was pronounced dead a little after midnight on June 24. Last month, Shifty's countless fans and some of his friends came together in the City of Angels to celebrate the rocker's life. Shifty fought hard to overcome his drug battle.
Before he overdosed, the musician took to Instagram to have a heart-to-heart with his supporters about getting sober and battling himself. He wrote on Instagram eight weeks prior to his death: "I’m a lover than a fighter ..
.but the one I need to love more Instead of fight with is myself ..
mr shifty true Love # Sober alive and grateful (sic)" Shifty has struggled with drug addiction for years, and it because of it he appeared on the television shows Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 as well as Sober House 1 and 2. Shifty met his Crazy Town bandmate Bret "Epic" Mazur in 1992, and initially their band was named the Brimstone Sluggers. In 1999, they formed Crazy Town, and they were going to tour as a part of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's Ozzfest in 2000, but Shifty was arrested after he threw a chair out a window while intoxicated.
Crazy Town's hit song Butterfly was released in 2000 and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and was number one in several other countries including Austria, Denmark, and Norway. The song Butterfly samples the record Pretty Little Ditty from the legendary band Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1989 album Mother's Milk, so the group are credited as songwriters. Their debut album, The Gift of Game, sold more than 1.
5 million copies..
