Roland S. Howard (former Birthday Party guitarist) died wednesday after battling with liver cancer.
First known as the guitarist in Melbourne, Australia's Boys Next Door, the band later transformed it's sound and then renamed to the Birthday Party. One of rocks most incendiary and violent bands to ever grace the stage since the Stooges.
After the Birthday Party broke up in '83, Roland went on to Crime + The City Solution and These Immortal Souls. He also worked with numerous other artists including Lydia Lunch.
Roland's visionary guitar playing will be sorely missed, but the reverberation of every note he played will live on through his music + the music of a million other bands that he influenced.
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