Music fans recognize FDNY hero

Thrash on, Bill.

Scores of death metal fans honored fallen FDNY firefighter William (Bill) Tolley at the Bay Area Death Fest, where his band headlined this weekend.

During the three-day concert, considered the West Coast Lollapalooza for metal heads, attendees were shown a touching five-minute video about Tolley and how he and his band, Internal Bleeding, helped inspire the genre.

“His influence on me is paramount to this day, from his groove to his power to his attitude,” Adam Jarvis of the band Misery Index said during the video tribute. “His breakdowns are sick as f---. Here’s to a legend.”

It wasn’t mentioned in any of the tributes that Tolley, the band’s drummer, was an FDNY firefighter, except for when Sacrificial Slaughter frontman Steve Worley said he “dedicated his life to (putting) others first.”

“Internal Bleeding must thrive and conquer the world in Billy’s name,” Worley said.

Tolley, a 14-year FDNY veteran who joined Internal Bleeding when he was just 16, fell five stories to his death from a tower ladder bucket while responding to an apartment fire on Putnam Ave. in Ridgewood, Queens, on April 20, 2017.

The Bravest fell when the ladder shifted after getting caught on the building’s facade, sources at the time said.

Tolley, who lived in Bethpage, L.I., leaves behind a wife and an 8year-old daughter who was preparing to celebrate her First Communion the weekend after he died.

His band got its start on Long Island in the early 1990s and put out 11 releases. They also toured extensively across the country and beyond.