Revolver sends our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and fans. Heavy metal is not really poems, its messages, Inge says. Metalcore veterans Darkest Hour, whose ties to BDM run deep, described him as "always a complete joy to be around." As Lamb of God's Mark Morton wrote on Twitter, pretty much anyone who ever met him loved him. He was never afraid to break out of death metal's purist genre boundaries, doing guest vocal appearances for deathcore bands and touring with metalcore acts - all while continuing to create exceptional melodic death metal with Black Dahlia.Īs a person, Strnad is remembered as a generous, fun-loving spirit who made everyone feel welcomed. At the same time, he was a outspoken champion of younger bands in the scene and keeping the genre fresh and open to all. For many years, he wrote a column about underground death-metal bands and contributed other writing to the music blog Metal Injection and was known for his impressive breadth of knowledge about the genre's history. Strnad was an extreme-metal fanatic with a deep reverence for all things heavy. From 2003's Unhallowed to 2020's Verminous, he performed on nine full-length LPs. death-metal scene, where they remain today.
Throughout the 2000s, Strnad's diabolical vocals - a fiendish shrill and a monstrous low range - and vivid, colorful lyrics propelled the band to the upper ranks of the U.S. Strnad co-founded the Black Dahlia Murder in 2001 along with guitarist Brian Eschbach.
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