{"id":33706,"date":"2005-07-11T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=33706"},"modified":"2020-07-11T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T23:05:37","slug":"news-former-carnivore-and-primal-scream-guitarist-keith-alexander-dies-in-motorcycle-accident-aged-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-former-carnivore-and-primal-scream-guitarist-keith-alexander-dies-in-motorcycle-accident-aged-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CARNIVORE And PRIMAL SCREAM Guitarist Keith Alexander Dies Aged 41 (July 11th, 2005) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former CARNIVORE And PRIMAL SCREAM Guitarist Keith Alexander Dies Aged 41<\/strong><\/span>
\nJuly 11th, 2005<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Keith Alexander, formerly the guitarist of New York-based thrash metal group Carnivore and later of fellow New York-based thrashers Primal Scream, died in a motorcycle accident on July 11th, 2005 at the age of 41.<\/p>\n

Keith Alexander Bonanno was born on November 23rd, 1963.<\/p>\n

A member of Carnivore from 1983 until 1985, Alexander performed on the band\u2019s self-titled 1985 debut album. The axeman was subsequently a part of Primal Scream\u2019s line-up, appearing on 1987 lone full-length record Volume One<\/em>. During 1991, Alexander was briefly a member of Los Angeles-based metal concern Savage Grace. Other performance credits include the bands Stardust, The Characters, and Venus.<\/p>\n

A body piercer since 1991 and formerly a staff piercer at Gauntlet, Inc. in New York City, Alexander was a piercing consultant on 1998 horror movie StrangeLand<\/em>. StrangeLand<\/em> was written by and starred Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, with Alexander subsequently joining Dee Snider\u2019s Sick Mutha Fuckers for a three-year stint, touring throughout North America and Scandinavia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am profoundly saddened by the untimely passing of my dear friend,\u201d commented Snider. \u201cI will miss his energy, passion for life and our freewheeling conversations. I loved him and I will never forget him.\u201d<\/p>\n

A wake was held for Keith Alexander on July 14th, 2005 at Scarpaci Funeral Home at 1401 86th Street in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former CARNIVORE And PRIMAL SCREAM Guitarist Keith Alexander Dies Aged 41 July 11th, 2005 Keith Alexander, formerly the guitarist of New York-based thrash metal group Carnivore and later of fellow New York-based thrashers Primal Scream, died in a motorcycle accident on July 11th, 2005 at the age of 41. Keith Alexander Bonanno was born on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnivore-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84613,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions\/84613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}