Paul Raven, bass player for bands like Killing Joke , MINISTRY and PRONG was found dead yesterday at his home in a French village, near the border with Switzerland. The apparent cause of death of Raven would be a heart attack. Raven was in Geneva working with French industrial metal band TREPONEMA PAL alongside drummer Ted Parsons and members of THE YOUNG GODS .
Paul Vincent Raven was born in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, February 16, 1961. He became known in the early eighties when he replaced original bassist of the band's post-punk industrial KILLING JOKE. Your stay in the band coincided with the most commercially successful of the band, with albums like "Fire Dances" , "Night Time" and "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" . Throughout his career, Raven collaborated with various bands, including PRONG, MURDER , INC. , PIGFACE and GODFLESH . He was recently nominated for a Grammy for "Best Metal Interpreter" for his work with MINISTRY , with whom he was from late 2005 and they recorded the band's final album, "The Last Sucker" .
Keyboardist of KILLING JOKE, Udhin Reza commented: "Paul will be greatly missed by music fans, friends and especially by his family, his band will miss him terribly. It was a great man and a single bass player, who died tragically at a young age. "
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