Douglas McCarthy, the lead singer of Nitzer Ebb , has died. The band shared the news on social media without disclosing a cause of death. McCarthy was 58 years old. Douglas John McCarthy was born in England in 1966. He founded Nitzer Ebb, in Essex, in 1982, with Vaughan “Bon” Harris and David Gooday. “We were school friends in Essex with a love of post-punk bands like Killing Joke, Theatre of Hate, Bauhaus, the Banshees, Cabaret Voltaire, Virgin Prunes, the Birthday Party, Abwarts, and Malaria,”