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Paul Gray, the bassist for the Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday morning in his Des Moines, Iowa, hotel room, according to police. He was 38.
Dio, now Paul Gray, 8 days apart. May 2010 is a bad month for metal. This band helped me get through my anger-filled teenage years, and now that Paul Gray is dead all I can do is be overwhelmed by sadness. What does this mean for the band? Will they replace him like so many other metal bands have done when one of their members dies (Drowning Pool, Avenged Sevenfold, and so on) or will they decide that their band is incomplete and part ways permanently ala Led Zeppelin? No, I'm not comparing Slipknot to Zeppelin, I'm simply saying they are famous for ending their time together because they were incomplete after the death of John Bonham.
Announcement of his death here