VIO-LENCE Singer Sean Killian Explains Overcoming Serious Liver Medical Condition

For The Metal Voice Neil Turbin bowled and reported on this years Bowl For Ronnie James Dio 2023.

Turbin conducted two interviews, one with guitarist Juan Garcia from (Body Count, Agent Steel, EvilDead) and second with singer Sean Killian from Vio-lence.

In the interview with Sean Killian, Killian explains a serious liver medial condition that he had to overcome, he said, “It’s a genetic deal, it’s called alpha 1 Alpha1–antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency and Alpha1–antitrypsin is a protein that cleans your liver cells and your lung cells. I was 51 and I had full-blown Cirrhosis from the disease, it’s a genetic thing and then went through hell for about you know 20 months. Then I got what they call a living donor transplant, somebody gave up 63% of their liver. They went into the operating room before me at 7:00am I went in at 9:00am they were out at noon I was in there till uh I think I got out at like 10:00pm at night. It was something that you didn’t ask for but it was I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. “

Camera by Gustavo Guimaraes

100% of the net proceeds from the BOWL FOR RONNIE event will go to the Dio Cancer Fund (www.diocancerfund.org). The Pinz Bowling Center is located at 12655 Ventura Blvd in Studio City, California.

The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund was formed in memory of the legendary rock singer Ronnie James Dio, who lost his life to gastric cancer in 2010. A privately funded 501(c)(3) charity organization dedicated to cancer prevention, research and education, the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund has already raised over $2 million in its history. Monies raised have been committed to the cancer research work of the T. J. Martell Foundation for Cancer, AIDS and Leukemia Research, the gastric cancer research unit of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where Ronnie was treated for gastric cancer during the last six months of his life, and other cancer research projects. For the past seven years, the Dio Cancer Fund has committed funds to support the research of Dr. David Wong and his team at the UCLA School of Dentistry in developing a simple, non-invasive saliva test for the early detection of cancer, which is in keeping with the Fund’s mission of cancer prevention, research and education.