Keith Flint, the frenetic frontman of British rave icons The Prodigy, has died at the age of 49, the electronic pop group said Monday. Flint took his own life, his bandmate Liam Howlett said on The Prodigy's official Instagram account.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend," Howlett wrote. Police said only that they were not treating the death as suspicious after finding Flint's body on Monday in a residence in Essex, northeast of London.
Howlett said he was "shell shocked... angry, confused and heartbroken". Heavily pierced, tattooed and topped with a bleached mohawk, Flint helped turn The Prodigy into one of the most influential acts to emerge from the underground rave scene.
Their biggest hits included "Firestarter" and "Breathe" in 1996 and "Smack My Bitch Up" in 1997, which merged intense dance beats with elements of rap and punk to create energy-driven music that turned them into international stars.