Mick Morris, the onetime bassist of early '00s metalcore giants Eighteen Visions who had also done time in fellow Orange County band Bleeding Through, has died. Morris was just 35 when he passed away in his sleep on Sunday, June 2. Reports indicate that Morris' cause of death was a pre-existing heart condition...
So many bands from the metalcore explosion of the '00s are a distant, broken-up memory, like From Autumn to Ashes or Eighteen Visions -- and the list goes on. So why did mosh metallers Throwdown survive and thrive while so many of their peers split up...