Bob Bryar, the previous drummer for famed rock band My Chemical Romance, has died. He was 44.
No reason behind loss of life or additional data on Bryar’s passing was instantly obtainable, however a spokesperson for the band confirmed his loss of life in an announcement in an announcement shared with NBC News.
“The band asks on your persistence and understanding as they course of the information of Bob’s passing,” the spokesperson stated.
TMZ was the primary to report the information of the loss of life.
Bryar was My Chemical Romance’s longest serving drummer, taking part in with the band from 2004 to 2010, throughout which period they launched their hit album “The Black Parade” in 2006.
He was working as a sound engineer for The Used when he met the members of My Chemical Romance whereas on tour in 2004.
He would then depart the tour with The Used to interchange Matt Pelissier as drummer, shortly after My Chemical Romance launched their second album, “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge,” in accordance with Billboard.
“I left an excellent touring gig the place I used to be tour managing and doing sound. I left that job to affix a band that was filthy, had s—– gear, a smashed-up, smoking, death-trap van and was poor,” Bryar informed the Alternative Press in a 2016 interview. “They smelled dangerous, too. I used to be so joyful to obtain the supply.”
He continued: “Long earlier than we recorded ‘Welcome To The Black Parade,’ I knew that [MCR] have been particular and I wished in. I wished to assist evolve the band and have the ability to shred with them each night time.”
Bryar informed the outlet that one among his greatest reminiscences with My Chemical Romance was taking part in a sold-out present at Madison Square Garden.
“I by no means thought that will ever occur to me, and I nonetheless can’t imagine that was for actual,” he stated.
Bryar labored with the band on their fourth album, “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys,” however left earlier than its 2010 launch, Billboard reported.
Ten years after the discharge of “The Black Parade,” Bryar informed the Alternative Press he hadn’t listened to the album shortly as a result of the “reminiscences that come together with listening to it are an excessive amount of for me.”
“You will not discover one My Chem merchandise in my home. Not one,” he informed the outlet in 2016, including that he did not “should be bummed out” day-after-day from “listening to or seeing issues referring to one thing that I believed would final without end.”
Bryar retired from drumming in 2021, E! News reported.
“I’ve too many wrist points, I’m too outdated, too fats, and it’s time for one thing new,” he stated in a tweet on the time, in accordance with radio community ABC Audio.
My Chemical Romance went on to interrupt up in 2013, earlier than getting again collectively — with out Bryar — in 2019. They’re set to return to the stage subsequent summer time throughout North America on the “Long Live The Black Parade” tour.
