Bob Bryar, Former My Chemical Romance Drummer, Lifeless at 44

Bob Bryar — the dummer for My Chemical Romance from 2004 to 2014 — has died … TMZ has realized.

Legislation enforcement sources inform TMZ … Bryar was discovered lifeless in his Tennessee dwelling Tuesday after final being seen alive on November 4.

There is no such thing as a 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 Management got here to the home after the physique — which we’re instructed was badly decomposed — was found and took two canine away. The medical expert is investigating the trigger and method of Bryar’s dying.

Bryar first met the My Chemical Romance crew whereas they have been on tour with The Utilized in 2004 … and formally changed Matt Pelissier shortly after they launched their album “Three Cheers For Candy Revenge.”

Bryar performed drums on the 2006 album “The Black Parade” — maybe the group’s most well-known report — and wrote songs for the group’s 2010 entry “Hazard Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.”

Nevertheless, earlier than ‘Hazard 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 trade 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.

Within the years since leaving the group, Bryar has folks on-line after admitting that he skilled suicidal ideas a number of occasions since leaving MCR.

Whereas My Chemical Romance is scheduled to go on tour subsequent 12 months, Bob was not a part of the group coming again to play. Thus far, he is the longest-tenured drummer in band historical past.

Bryar was 44.