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Ex-OBITUARY’s Frank Watkins has passed away…

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Ex-OBITUARY’s Frank Watkins has passed away…

We are sorry to inform that Gorgoroth and ex-Obituary bassist Frank Watkins has passed away, as consequence of his long battle with cancer. Watkins was 47 years old.

Watkins started playing music at the age of 12 and joined OBITUARY in 1989, after the recording of the band’s debut album, “Slowly We Rot”. His first album with the group was their landmark 1990 LP, “Cause Of Death”. OBITUARY broke up in 1997, but Watkins reteamed with his bandmates in 2003, and stayed with the group through the recording of 2009’s “Darkest Day” LP.

Frank was also involved in managing, mentoring and guiding other bands and musicians through his management company Back From the Dead Productions, which he launched in 2007.

In late 2007, Watkins became the bassist of Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH, and in 2009 he participated in the recording of the GORGOROTH album “Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt”. He made his live debut with the band at the Hole In The Sky festival in Bergen on August 29, 2009. This was the first concert GORGOROTH had performed since September 2007.

Just got the very sad news that Frank passed away this morning. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family….

Posted by Obituary on Domingo, 18 de Outubro de 2015


Frank Watkins, Obituary, shot in London 09/03/09 -;  (Photo by Steve Brown/Photoshot/Getty Images)

Frank Watkins, Obituary, shot in London 09/03/09 -; (Photo by Steve Brown/Photoshot/Getty Images)

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