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are musicians very few and far between as talented as that fellow musician and childhood friend Charlie Paulson By CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER American Head Charge (AHC) bassist Chad Hanks the principal songwriter and co-founder of the Twin Cities industrial metal band, died on Sunday at age 46. His tributes around the internet said he had been suffering from a terminal illness. Hanks and AHC frontman Cameron Heacock went from little hometown recognition to playing in front of big crowds at Ozzfests 93X Fests Slipknot tours and a lot more in the early 2000s. They then put on some well-remembered local gigs at First Avenue, where a benefit for Hanks already on the books for Nov. 26 will now be a posthumous tribute to him.

full-contact Hanks once told the Star Tribune of intense, rowdy live shows, where the band members sometimes endured as much physical damage on stage as did fans in the mosh pit. In a later interview, he did not bemoan what he saw as a creative slump in the Twin Cities metal scene: sort of how it was when we started, and we liked being the ones to lead the he said. The DIY success helped bring it to the attention of super-producer Rick Rubin (Metallica, Beastie Boys, Chili Peppers), who signed AHC to his American Recordings label and had the group out to his allegedly haunted Los Angeles mansion to record War of Metal magazines Kerang and Rough Edge each gave the album four-star reviews (out of five), and VH1 picked it as one of the Most Underrated Albums of During the recording of that album, guitarist Charlie Paulson of the Los Angeles ska-rock band Goldfinger a childhood friend of from California described to the Star Tribune how Hanks provided the fuel behind fiery sound. with the world at large makes him play Paulson said. then not being satisfied with the music being made that makes him play the kind of music he plays.

There are musicians very few and far between that are as talented as that Hanks and Heacock were both native Californians who met in a rehab facility in Minnesota in 1995 and formed the band soon thereafter. They remained two constant members, enduring such calamity as the sudden death of guitarist Bryan Ottoson in 2005 and more stints in treatment programs. Last AHC album Umbrella for Napalm Records earned more high praise from metal blogs. kind of -metal record that actually does it declared New Noise Magazine guys were one of the best bands out there around the time of Mudvayne Slipknot, Sevendust Disturbed and Heacock posted a heartbreaking photo Sunday on Face- book that showed him head-to-head with the bedridden Hanks, with no words offered (or needed). One of two guitarists Ted Hallows wrote a tribute on Facebook, saying, In Peace my friend.

You will be missed and your music will live on forever. Thank you for making me a better guitarist and thank you for all the great memories we shared together. Love you man and ever forget Touted with the Hunter S. Thompson quote, weird to live, too rare to the Nov. 26 tribute to Hanks at First Ave will feature performances by Black Flood Diesel Blue Felix the Omega Sequence and more as well as a silent auction to help offset medical expenses.

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