LONDON: Keith Flint, the fiery frontman of British dance-electronic band The Prodigy, was found dead on Monday at his home near London, the band said. He was 49.

Prodigy co-founder Liam Howlett said in an Instagram post that Flint killed himself over the weekend.

`I`m shell shocked ... confused and head broken,` he wrote. Police confirmed that the body of a 49-year-old man had been found at a home in Brook Hill, northeast of London.

Flint was the stage persona of the band, whose 1990s hits `Firestarter` and `Breathe` were an incendiary fusion of techno, breakbeat and acid house music. He was renowned for his manic stage energy and distinctive look: black eyeliner and hair spiked into two horns.

The Prodigy sold 30 million records, helping to take rave music from an insular community of pany-goers to an international audience. They had seven No 1 albums in Britain, most recently with No Tourists in 2018.

The band`s rise coincided with soul-searching in Britain over electronic dance music and its related drug culture, and the Prodigy became known as much for its anti-establishment stance as for its songs.-AP