American drummer Jeremiah Green, co-founder of American rock band Modest Mouse, died on December 31 of complications from cancer, his family announced on Sunday.
He was 45 years old.
Suffering from an unspecified cancer in phase 4, the musician had to resolve not to participate in the last tour of Modest Mouse.
“Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah. He lay down to rest and just died
,” his Modest Mouse comrades wrote on the group’s social media on Sunday.
"He was the most creative musician I've ever met
," British guitarist Johnny Marr said on Twitter.
Diagnosed
"not long ago"
from his concert, according to guitarist and singer of Modest Mouse, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green was undergoing chemotherapy at the time of his death.
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Founded in 1992 by Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green and Eric Judy, Modest Mouse helped redefine the contours of rock music in the aftermath of the collapse of the grunge movement.
Released in 1996, their debut album
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
was part of the loose, protean genre of indie rock.
The band's popular success, meanwhile, only came with the 2004 release of
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
, which delivered two of Modest Mouse's best-known singles:
Float On
and
Ocean Breathes Salty.
.
Modest Mouse's seventh and final album,
The Golden Casket
, was released in June 2021.
