Bob Bryar has died. As the previous drummer for My Chemical Romance by means of one of the vital influential parts of its profession—together with recording, touring, and writing on the album that pushed the band from “profitable” to “worldwide superstars,” The Black Parade—Bryar served within the group from 2004 till departing in 2010. His demise was reported by TMZ, which said that his physique was present in his Tennessee dwelling by authorities on Tuesday, after Bryar was final seen alive on November 4. Bryar was 44.
Originally a tour supervisor and sound engineer, Bryar befriended the members of My Chemical Romance within the early 2000s, and, when the group parted methods with Matt Pelissier shortly after the discharge of 2004’s Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, signed on because the band’s new drummer. While his tenure with the band technically included solely a single studio album, Bryar was additionally distinguished in music movies and different initiatives, together with the double-platinum reside video/music album Life On The Murder Scene. He got here to best prominence with the recording of Black Parade, though accidents from a video shoot, after which from worsening wrist points, induced the band to cancel a number of reveals in assist of the massively profitable rock opera.
In 2010, within the lead-up to the discharge of Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, My Chemical Romance introduced that it had “parted methods” with Bryar. (Although he remained credited as a author on a number of songs on the album, Bryar later wrote on social media that he had been “kicked out” of the group.) In subsequent years, Bryar labored for a time as a producer, earlier than leaving music altogether, reportedly working as an actual property agent, and donating time, vitality, and cash to animal rescue charities. Reading by means of his social media from that period by means of to the current day (a lot of which has been deleted, however archived), Bryar sounds deeply sad, together with a number of situations during which he talked about suicidal ideation. Earlier this month, when the remaining members of My Chemical Romance (which broke up in 2013, however reunited in 2020) introduced that they’d be touring in a sequence of reveals the place they’d be performing The Black Parade in its entirety, it was made clear that Bryar wouldn’t be performing with the group.
