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Paul Gray of Slipknot Died From Accidental Drug Overdose

By Paul Cashmere
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:18:15 +1000

The toxicity into the death of Slipknot founder Paul Gray has revealed that the bass player has died from a drug overdose.

Gray was founded dead in an Iowa hotel on May 24. At the time it was revealed that drugs were found near his body.

Urbandale Police Department have concluded that Gray died from a self-injected "accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl".

The report also found that Gray had "significant heart disease".

Slipknot has now gone into hibernation until at least 2012. Singer Corey Taylor will concentrate on his other band Stone Sour for the next 18 months.
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