{"id":21195,"date":"2026-07-02T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=21195"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:12:24","slug":"follow-up-chicago-metal-legend-shaun-glass-who-has-played-with-soil-broken-hope-and-repentance-dies-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=21195","title":{"rendered":"FOLLOW UP: Chicago Metal Legend SHAUN GLASS, Who Has Played With SOIL, BROKEN HOPE And REPENTANCE, Dies At 57"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago metal legend Shaun Glass<\/strong> has died at the age of 57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass<\/strong>, who has played with a number of acclaimed metal bands over the past four decades, including SOIL<\/strong>, BROKEN HOPE<\/strong>, SINDROME<\/strong>, TERMINAL DEATH<\/strong>, DIRGE WITHIN<\/strong>, THE BLOODLINE<\/strong> and, more recently, REPENTANCE<\/strong>, passed away on July 1, a month after suffering a stroke at his Illinois home that he shared with his wife Michelle<\/strong> and their 13-year-old son Maddux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle<\/strong> shared the news of Shaun<\/strong>‘s death in a social media post on Wednesday (July 1). She wrote: “It is with an extremely heavy heart that I share that Shaun<\/strong> passed away this morning after suffering a medical emergency on May 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Shaun<\/strong> and I met in 2003 and married in 2010. In 2012, we welcomed our son \u2014 Shaun<\/strong>‘s pride and joy, as anyone who knew him well already knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our lives will never be the same. We are devastated, and we ask for privacy and respect as our family begins to navigate this unimaginable loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Shaun<\/strong> was many things to many people, but to us he was always a husband and a Dad first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Please keep our family in your prayers, thoughts, or however you send positive energy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Countless fellow metal musicians have since taken to social media to pay tribute to Shaun<\/strong>, including MACHINE HEAD<\/strong>‘s Robb Flynn<\/strong>, who described Glass<\/strong> as “one of the biggest ball-busters I’ve ever known” as well as “one of the sweetest human beings I’ve ever had the privilege of calling my friend.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NONPOINT<\/strong> drummer Robb Rivera<\/strong> said that Shaun<\/strong> was his “newswire for everything heavy. He was always the first to send me a new band I needed to hear, a record I had to check out, or some breaking news from the metal world. He lived this music every single day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaun<\/strong>‘s former bandmates in SOIL<\/strong> also acknowledged his passing, writing on social media: “Although we have been estranged and not on good terms since his departure in 2007, he was still an integral part of SOIL<\/strong> in the early years. And for a long time he was a good friend and comrade. We had many laughs and many good times back in the day. We will look back at those times with fond memories and smiles.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KREATOR<\/strong>‘s Miland “Mille” Petrozza<\/strong> described Shaun<\/strong> “one of the coolest people” as well as “a friend, a fan and an overall music enthusiast” whom he had known since KREATOR<\/strong>‘s very first tour of the USA four decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass<\/strong> was a heavy metal lifer who started out in the 1980s as a member of the Chicago death metal band TERMINAL DEATH<\/strong>, with whom he recorded two demos, before joining SINDROME<\/strong> \u2014 a thrash favorite within tape-trading circles with the band’s “Into The Halls Of Extermination”<\/strong> demo \u2014 in 1986. Glass<\/strong> later replaced Ed Hughes<\/strong> as the bass player of BROKEN HOPE<\/strong> and recorded the albums “Repulsive Conception”<\/strong> and “Loathing”<\/strong> with the gore-hungry death metallers before leaving in 1998 to focus on his heavy rock band SOIL<\/strong>. It was with SOIL<\/strong> that he gained the most commercial success, thanks largely to the band’s second album, “Scars”<\/strong> and its lead single, “Halo”<\/strong>. He would go on to release two more albums with the band, “Redefine”<\/strong> (2004) and “True Self”<\/strong> (2007) before exiting the group and forming DIRGE WITHIN<\/strong>, with whom he recorded two albums, “Force Fed Lies”<\/strong> and “There Will Be Blood”<\/strong>. He then rejoined BROKEN HOPE<\/strong> in time to appear on the 2013 album “Omen Of Disease”<\/strong> before eventually forming REPENTANCE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to Shaun<\/strong>‘s passing, REPENTANCE<\/strong> had completed work on its third full-length album, “Retaliate”<\/strong>, which was originally scheduled for release on July 17, 2026 via Noble Demon<\/strong> but has since been delayed in the wake of Glass<\/strong>‘s initial medical emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass<\/strong>\u00a0formed\u00a0REPENTANCE<\/strong>\u00a0in 2018 and released the band’s debut album,\u00a0“God For A Day”<\/strong>, in 2020, leading to a worldwide signing with German label\u00a0Noble Demon<\/strong>\u00a0in 2021. This partnership marked a new chapter for the band, beginning with the EP\u00a0“Volume I \u2013 Reborn”<\/strong>\u00a0(2021),which introduced vocalist\u00a0Adam Gilley<\/strong>\u00a0and featured a guest appearance from\u00a0TRIVIUM<\/strong>\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Corey Beaulieu<\/strong>. In 2023,\u00a0REPENTANCE<\/strong>\u00a0followed up with its sophomore album,\u00a0“The Process Of Human Demise”<\/strong>, a record that featured guest contributions from\u00a0Beaulieu<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Milo Silvestro<\/strong>\u00a0(FEAR FACTORY<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH Chicago metal legend Shaun Glass has died at the age of 57. Glass, who has played with a number of acclaimed metal bands over the past four decades, including SOIL, BROKEN HOPE, SINDROME, TERMINAL DEATH, DIRGE WITHIN, THE BLOODLINE and, more recently, REPENTANCE, passed away on July 1, a month after suffering a stroke at his Illinois home that he shared with his… Read More »FOLLOW UP: Chicago Metal Legend SHAUN GLASS, Who Has Played With SOIL, BROKEN HOPE And REPENTANCE, Dies At 57<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21197,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195\/revisions\/21197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}