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Adrian "The Energizer" Bromley Passes Away From Complications From Pneumonia At Age 37

Adrian "The Energizer" Bromley passed away in his sleep on December 7th, 2008 at the young age of 37 from complications due to pneumonia. He had just celebrated his birthday on November 30th.

Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles reports: To say that Adrian was active in the metal scene is an understatement. Early in his journalism career he worked at Canada's M.E.A.T Magazine (along with BW&BK's Carl Begai and "Metal" Tim Henderson). Soon-after, Adrian, along with Gino Filicetti formed one of the world's first extreme metal webzines called Chronicles Of Chaos. Adrian went on to create Unrestrained! Magazine which gained worldwide popularity in the extreme underground realm. More recently he worked press and publicity at The End Records and moved on to form Ixmati Media, a company that represented the likes of Listenable Records, Blistering Records, Northern Storm Records, Ibex Moon Records, Shadow Kingdom Records among others. He had also started his new label called Absurdist Records.

BW&BK President/CEO "Metal" Tim Henderson had this to say about his passing: "We are in total shock. We used to joke that BW&BK and Unrestrained! were vicious rivals, but that was totally inaccurate. I'd known Adrian since the M.E.A.T. days in Toronto in the late '80s as we all were trying to cut it as potential journalists! Hell, he lived on our BraveBoard! You won't meet anybody in this biz that worked as hard as Adrian, fighting for "the cause" at every waking moment. And the key was that his heart was in the right place. He'd give you his left arm if you needed it. Always a friendly hand-shake or a heavy metal hug. Every band and label that Adrian represented felt his presence. His head was filled with a sea of metal knowledge - underground and above ground. Virtually every conversation we had was about music - it was his life. Adrian had incredible vision, always thinking of ideas on how to push the scene to greater heights. Those of us based in Toronto - take a look around at your next metal show/gathering. Adrian touched every one of those souls as he helped the scene grow larger than ever.

"Damn, it as just over a year ago we lost Ray "Black Metal" Wallace. Life just ain't fair.

"He will be terribly missed..."

While I did not know Adrian Bromley personally, we here at Metalunderground.com had worked with him a few times during his tenure at The End Records. It's a terrible shame to lose someone so dedicated to metal and somone so young as well. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.

A trust account will be set up in Adrian's name where if people want to make donations, they can. Donations will go towards the Canadian Cancer Society. A cause very close and dear to Adrian.

There will not be a funeral service nor a wake for Adrian. A memorial for Adrian has been confirmed for Saturday Janurary 17, 2009 at The Opera House, In Toronto. All are encouraged to attend. More details will be listed in the next couple of days, with an official announcement made as well.

Source: BW&BK