Police were warned that Timothy Parlane, who once sang for fellow death metal band BULLETBELT, was suicidal and the woman to whom he confessed pleaded for him to be given help.
Parlane told the woman he went to Hall's house with two knives and stabbed him.
"I told them I was seriously concerned for his mental health," the woman told The Dominion Post. "I feel that he was absolutely let down by the system," she said.
BACKYARD BURIAL frontman Matthew John Hall, 35, who went by the stage name "Blaps Warmonger", was found dead with multiple stab wounds by his roommate at his Wellington apartment on February 15.
BACKYARD BURIAL released its debut album, titled "Symptoms Of Psychopathology", in 1999.
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