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Quiet Riot Lead Singer Kevin Dubrow Dies

Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot that scored a hit with "Cum on Feel the Noize," was found dead in a Las Vegas home. He was 52. The cause was not immediately known.

A neighbor summoned police and paramedics Sunday to the house where he was pronounced dead, police and coroner's officials said.

There was no forced entry, and no suspicious circumstances were reported, police Officer Jose Montoya said Monday.

Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize." The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album "Metal Health" — which was the first by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

DuBrow recorded his first solo album in 2004, "In for the Kill," and the band's last studio CD, "Rehab," came out in October 2006.

"I can't even find words to say," Quiet Riot drummer Frank Banali wrote on his Web site. "Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend Kevin DuBrow."

Determination of the cause of death was pending an autopsy and toxicology results, Clark County coroner's spokeswoman Samantha Charles said.

Well, fuck. Quiet Riot was one of the good bands, the guys who kept going out of love of the music long after the arena tours and gold records faded into the past. Kevin was just as happy playing clubs as huge festivals as long as it meant he was doing what he loved.

To celebrate Kevin, let's return to the original Heavy Metal Sunday... May 29th, 1983, Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California. As you watch, know that somewhere in that crowd of around 375,000 is a 16-year-old

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Goodbye, and thank you Kevin.

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Such a shame... Soon there will be no more Brothers of True Metal left, and we'll be stuck with just the commercial crap.

that weekend was our RTB from my first ever AT on Planet Irwin......i remember the huge traffic jam by the stadium that we had to negotiate.

i spent Sunday in a futile attempt at getting medical care from the US Navy for my hand that i had severely burned a couple of days previously.

they've got a helluva band in heaven. %-)

I saw Quiet Riot a few years ago in Dallas, at what was basically a Metal and Hair band festival. Quiet Riot was the best by far, and kept their energy and enthusiasm going, and the crowds as well, throughout their whole set.

They were down here (South Texas) a few months ago, and the local afternoon DJ at our only rock station hung out with him the whole time they were here, and was telling the stories that Kevin told him all afternoon today, between songs.

If their is a Valhalla for rock musicians, he's there right now, jamming...

If their is a Valhalla for rock musicians, he's there right now, jamming...

There surely is one.

Aw shit.

I know everyone in the Bay Area didn't really meet me until some time after I went Goth, but before that I was all about Metal. The Metal Health tour was the second concert I ever attended during high school, and is still my favorite of all the Heavy Metal concerts I was at. I can attribute a good part of my hearing loss to that General Admission concert. I was right there, down in front, practically shoved up against the stage left Marshall stack, and would not be budged from that spot for love nor money. Years later I still knew every lyric, and scared one of the punk boys I was living with by screaming the words in approved Heavy Metal style and headbanging as I drove him to work. I think Kevin DuBrow would have approved.

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Another one bites the dust

i wasn't there....

Damn, just damn...

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