Former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar dies at age 44

Members of the band My Chemical Romance. Bob Bryar (L). File
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Bob Bryar, a former drummer with My Chemical Romance who performed on the band’s career-defining rock opera, “The Black Parade,” has died, in line with the band. He was 44.

“The band asks in your endurance and understanding as they course of the information of Bob’s passing,” a spokesperson for My Chemical Romance mentioned in an announcement Sunday (December 1, 2024).

The assertion didn’t embrace any extra particulars.

Bryar changed drummer Matt Pelissier in 2004 and left the band in 2010. Bryar moved on from the music enterprise and later auctioned off a drum package to lift cash for an animal adoption centre in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Subsequent yr, the band will embark on a 10-date North American stadium tour, the place they are going to carry out “The Black Parade,” launched in 2006, in full.

My Chemical Romance fashioned in 2001 and launched 4 studio albums throughout their profession, first breaking by with 2004’s “Three Cheers for Candy Revenge.” They introduced their breakup in 2013; a yr later, they launched a biggest hits assortment titled “Could Dying By no means Cease You.” In 2019, they introduced a reunion, later revealing they’d privately reunited two years earlier.