“I’ll see you on the opposite facet”

Sean Blosl, founding member and guitarist for Sanctuary, has died on the age of 58.

The information was shared on New 12 months’s Eve (December 31) by the band’s guitarist Lenny Rutledge, who was additionally Blosl’s cousin. Rutledge wrote on Instagram that Blosl handed away “earlier within the 12 months” after being “concerned in a automobile associated accident in Seattle”. Per an obituary discover from The Chronicle, Blosl’s date of demise is marked as August 26.

Rutledge wrote of his cousin on social media: “Sean was my cousin, however to us we had been way more like my brothers. We had a musical dream once we had been youngsters that grew to become a actuality. With out Sean by my facet I don’t know if I might have had the chance to make this musical journey. It is extremely troublesome to sum up a lifetime of affection, recollections and experiences however I’ll at all times bear in mind Sean as an inspiration and a instructor. RIP Brother. I’ll see you on the opposite facet.”

Blosl was a founding member of Sanctuary, and was with the band from its inception in 1985 till 1990. Throughout his time with the band, they recorded and launched two studio albums: ‘Refuge Denied’ (1988) and ‘Into The Mirror Black’ (1990).

After departing the band in 1990, Sanctuary would go on to interrupt up in 1992 earlier than reuniting in 2010. Blosl didn’t rejoin the band for the reunion.

Blosl was changed by Jeff Loomis of Nevermore and Arch Enemy after his exit in 1992. Blosl was not identified to have carried out with different bands after leaving Sanctuary, however is commonly considered a legend within the Seattle music scene.

Previous to Blosl’s demise, Sanctuary frontman Warrel Dane died in late 2017 from a coronary heart assault.

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