Nitzer Ebb Frontman Douglas McCarthy Dies at 58 After Liver Cirrhosis Forces End to Touring

Douglas McCarthy, co-founding vocalist of nan English business creation set Nitzer Ebb, has died. He was 58.

The set shared an Instagram statement announcing that he had died connected Wednesday, June 11.

"It is pinch a dense bosom that we regret to pass that Douglas McCarthy passed distant this greeting of June 11th, 2025," it read. "We inquire everyone to please beryllium respectful of Douglas, his wife, and family successful this difficult time."

The connection concluded: "We admit your knowing and will stock much accusation soon."

No origin of decease was revealed; however, successful March 2024, McCarthy stepped distant from a European Nitzer Ebb circuit and shared he had been diagnosed pinch liver cirrhosis “following years of intoxicant abuse" successful a connection connected Instagram.

"For complete 2 years I person not been drinking, but betterment is simply a agelong process," he wrote astatine nan time.

McCarthy, who was calved London successful 1966, met his early bandmate, drummer David Gooday, astatine 10 years old. In 1982, they formed Nitzer Ebb pinch friends Bon Harris and Simon Granger and had their first show astatine a YMCA.

At nan opening of their career, they were heavy influenced by nan post-punk genre but they later took connected much business and physics influences. Eventually, Nitzer Ebb were heralded arsenic salient figures successful nan "electronic assemblage music" scene.

The set signed to Mute Records successful nan U.K. and Geffen successful nan U.S. and released their first medium That Total Age in 1987. While they didn't people a floor plan hit, their azygous “Join nan Chant” landed nan No. 9 connected Billboard Dance Club Songs. 

After its release, they went connected circuit pinch labelmates Depeche Mode for their Music for nan Masses European tour. Throughout their career, songs for illustration 1989's “Control I’m Here," and 1990's “Lightning Man” and “Fun to Be Had," arsenic good arsenic 1991’s “Family Man," charted.

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Following nan merchandise of their 5th medium Big Hit successful 1995, Nitzer Ebb split.

McCarthy relocated to Los Angeles and Detroit, earlier heading backmost to nan U.K. wherever he studied creation and movie successful Cambridge. Later, he returned to music, moving pinch techno shaper Terence Fixmer.

In 2007, Nitzer Ebb reunited. They released their sixth and last LP Industrial Complex successful 2010 and continued to tour. Two years later, McCarthy shared a solo album, Kill Your Friends.