Jeff Ward was a drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 for various rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 bands including Hammeron, Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

, Revolting Cocks

Revolting Cocks

Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, is an American–Belgian industrial rock band and sometime supergroup that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.-History:...

, Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

, Lard

Lard (band)

Lard is a hardcore punk/industrial band founded in 1988 as a side project by Jello Biafra , Al Jourgensen , Paul Barker , and Jeff Ward . Biafra is perhaps best known as the former frontman of the punk rock band Dead Kennedys...

, and Low Pop Suicide

Low Pop Suicide

Low Pop Suicide was an indie rock band of the early 1990s on World Domination Recordings. Rick Boston sang and played guitar. At first, Dave Allen, founder of the record label, played bass and Jeff Ward was on drums. These two left the band and it became a vehicle for Boston. His then girlfriend...

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He committed suicide

Suicide

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 in 1993. He locked himself in his car in his garage and started it, dying of carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide . Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect...

. Revolting Cocks' 1993 album Linger Ficken' Good

Linger Ficken' Good

-Singles:Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? # "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"# "Sergio Guitar"# "Wrong Sexy Mix"Crackin' Up # "Crackin' Up "# "Crackin' Up "# "Gila Copter "-Revolting Cocks:...

, Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral

The Downward Spiral

The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released March 8, 1994, on Interscope Records. It is a concept album detailing the destruction of a man, from the beginning of his "downward spiral" to his climactic attempt at suicide...

, Ministry's 1996 album Filth Pig

Filth Pig

Filth Pig is the sixth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a filthy pig by MP Teddy Taylor...

, and Lard's 1997 release Pure Chewing Satisfaction

Pure Chewing Satisfaction

Pure Chewing Satisfaction is an album by Lard released in 1997.- Track listing :All songs written by Biafra/Jourgensen/Barker/Rieflin except as noted.#"War Pimp Renaissance" - 4:19#"I Wanna Be a Drug Sniffing Dog" - 3:17#"Moths" - 4:57...

all featured dedications to him, while Ward's friend (and Nine Inch Nails bandmate) Richard Patrick

Richard Patrick

Richard Patrick is an American rock musician. He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails....

 dealt with his death in the Filter

Filter (band)

Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....

 track "It's Over." He provided vocals for the 1000 Homo DJs

1000 Homo DJs

1000 Homo DJs was a side project of industrial music band Ministry. It is best known for its cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut." The project was released through industrial label Wax Trax! Records....

 song "Hey Asshole" where he impersonated a cop.

External links

• Article Regarding Death and Tribute Concert originally printed May 6, 1993 in the Chicago Sun-Times
  Chicago Sun-Times
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