Quiet Riot [ tickets ] frontman Kevin DuBrow was found dead Sunday inside his Las Vegas home, according to a message posted on drummer Frankie Banali's website.

Few details have emerged about DuBrow's death aside from Banali's posting and another from bassist Kelly Garni. The singer, who celebrated his birthday in New Orleans last month and appeared to be in good health at the time, according to reports, was 52.

"I can't even find words to say," Banali wrote in a message posted on the front page of his website this morning. "Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend Kevin DuBrow."

Garni posted a message regarding DuBrow's death on a tribute website for the late guitarist Randy Rhoads, who helped form Quiet Riot in 1973 along with Garni and DuBrow.

"I ask this to all of you not only for myself but for other friends and family," Garni wrote. "I ask that no one here offer any speculation or opinions, theories or other things that could be construed as negative or, and I'm sorry for this, even sympathetic, right at this immediate time. I am already, within hours of this, having to deal with untrue rumors and speculation and that only adds fuel to that.

"All details and other pertinent info will be passed on to you here when it becomes available to me."

After forming in 1973, Quiet Riot released a pair of studio albums before Rhoads left the band to become Ozzy Osbourne's regular guitarist. The DuBrow-led group carried on as simply DuBrow for several years before changing back to its original name in the wake of Rhoads' death in a plane crash in 1982.

The band went on to help create the Los Angeles-centered glam-metal movement (a genre that included acts such as Motley Crue, Poison and others) in the '80s, scoring a No. 1 hit with its cover of Slade's "Cum on Feel the Noize" in 1983. The album that included that song, "Metal Health," also became the first record by a metal act to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart.

The group had continued touring in various configurations over the years, releasing its latest studio album, "Rehab," in 2006, with DuBrow and Banali remaining from the band's '80s lineup.