Riley Gale, frontman for thrash band Power Trip, dead at 35

Riley Gale, the lead singer of Dallas-based thrash metal band Power Trip is dead at 35.

The musician died Monday, according to a statement issued on the band’s Twitter page. No cause of death was revealed late Tuesday, reported NME.

“It is with the greatest of sadness we must announce that our lead singer and brother Riley Gale passed away (Monday night),” read the posting. “Riley was a friend, a brother, a son. Riley was both a larger than life rock star and a humble and giving friend. He touched so many lives through his lyrics and through his huge heart.”

Musicians of all genres expressed shock at Gale’s passing.

“I just got the news. . . . He was only 35. . . . I’m devastated. Still don’t know how,” tweeted rapper and “Law & Order: SVU” star Ice-T on Tuesday. “I’m speechless. So Fd up.”

Also offering condolences was Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg.

“So sad to hear of Riley Gale’s passing. I only had the good fortune of meeting hime once, but he had a way of making you feel like you’d known him forever, instantly,” wrote Weinberg on Twitter. “Such a profound loss. Love and deepest sympathies to Power Trip and everyone close to him.”

The band, which formed in 2008, made a splash with its 2013 debut album “Manifest Decimation.”

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With its nihilistic lyrics and pulsating guitar licks, the title track expresses the pervading angst of life and the culpability of a higher power: “Under the boot of great oppression we slither and crawl / On the path of annihilation but in the name of God? / Manifest Decimation, we stumble and fall / Manifest Decimation, to suppress us all. Under the boot of great oppression, a dark figure conquers us.”

Four years later, Power Trip released its second and final LP, the critically acclaimed “Nightmare Logic.”