Bob Bryar — the dummer for My Chemical Romance from 2004 to 2014 — has died … TMZ has realized.
Law enforcement sources inform TMZ … Bryar was discovered lifeless in his Tennessee dwelling Tuesday after final being seen alive on November 4.
There is not any foul play suspected, we’re instructed, as a result of all of Bryar’s weapons and music tools within the dwelling have been left untouched.
Animal Control got here to the home after the physique — which we’re instructed was badly decomposed — was found and took two canines away. The health worker is investigating the trigger and method of Bryar’s loss of life.
Bryar first met the My Chemical Romance crew whereas they have been on tour with The Used in 2004 … and formally changed Matt Pelissier shortly after they launched their album “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.”
Bryar performed drums on the 2006 album “The Black Parade” — maybe the group’s most well-known file — and wrote songs for the group’s 2010 entry “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.”
However, earlier than ‘Danger Days’ was launched, Bryar left the group … working with different bands over the following few years earlier than saying he was transitioning from the music business to actual property.
In 2020, he appeared at a remembrance for and wrote about late Rush drummer, Neil Peart … speaking about his childhood love of and subsequent friendship with the drummer.
In the years since leaving the group, Bryar has folks on-line after admitting that he skilled suicidal ideas a number of instances since leaving MCR.
While My Chemical Romance is scheduled to go on tour subsequent 12 months, Bob was not a part of the group coming again to play. To date, he is the longest-tenured drummer in band historical past.
Bryar was 44.
RIP
