According to ANAL CUNT’s publicist, Kim Kelly of Catharsis PR, frontman Seth Putnam died on Saturday, June 11th, of a suspected heart attack. He was only 43 years old.

Six months before his passing, Putnam gave a lengthy interview to Hellbound.ca. He discussed his thoughts on death; why he still abused drugs and alcohol after his coma and more. An excerpt follow:

Q: Do friends worry that you’ll end up like a G.G. Allin (who died from an overdose) and that the next time you might not be as lucky?

A: "Half of my friends do drugs and half of my friends are straight-edge. My straight-edge friends understand what I’m about. They worry about me but they understand I’m going to do what I’m going to do. This time I know how to control myself so I don’t OD. I’m not going to put myself in that position because I don’t want my body to get fucked up again."

Q: Your friend John McCarthy from POST MORTEM passed away a few years ago… were you surprised he died and you are still around despite what you’ve done?

A: "He was getting an SSI cheque and getting drunk on Listerine and shit like that. But I was a surprised when he died. The strangest thing was that he was a grandfather at age 40. Even when he first had a kid I thought it was strange. He was one of my best friends of all time. I could say bad things about him but I won’t because the good times outweigh the bad. In 2008, we played a show in California with Anal Blast and The Meat Shits. People were taking bets if I would die first or Don Decker from Anal Blast. Don died like a year later."

Read more at Hellbound.ca.