Bummer news. Saw the video with him confirming it all, and he seems pretty optimistic. Regardless of if you ever liked this band this guy has one of the most iconic voices of the 2000s. Wishing him the best.

Damn, only 46 too and having to fight stage four cancer. I'm glad he's remaining optimistic and such but prognosis of this situation doesn't seem too good by any means. Hoping for the best though and that he beats it or at the least can live for quite some time longer without suffering possibly. Fuck cancer!

Metastasis to the lung is never good, glad he's keeping good spirits because that's a lot of the battle. Cheesy band but damn near inescapable in the early aughts, especially after 9/11.

I don't think many people want to wish ill on the guy. Sure the band is meh by every stretch of the imagination but I don't think this dude has ever had a bad reputation. Just way too Jesus-y for my tastes. Creed/3 Doors Down was one of the worst shows I've ever been to. That's the worst thing I can say about the guy.

Despite not liking this band much outside of their few hits in the early 2000's, this is just terrible news and hopefully he's able to recover.

Terrible news. I'm 44, so this hits hard, especially coming out of nowhere.

fuck cancer. best of luck to the dude

Wishing the best for him! I hope he wins the battle against all odds!

This makes me sick and sad. :[

Very horrible news

Man wrote some legendary songs

This sucks big time

Band has been a fixture in my house my entire life. as a kid, i loved just about every big radio single of theirs, many of which my dad still plays on guitar literally every day lol. wishing the best for him and his family

Seems like a very humble and kind guy. The better life made quite a splash in 99. Will never forget hearing Superman for the first time. I believe mark hoppus was stage 4 cancer and of course he beat it. Hoping Brad pulls through. Glad he seems to be staying optimistic.

Man that is an impressive amount of optimistic energy, respect to his strength and being headstrong about it. Fuck cancer.

Mods deleting comments fast. It wasn't even that controversial!

That’s rough, respect for him for keeping a good attitude through all this

"Mods deleting comments fast. It wasn't even that controversial!"

I would like to note that it is being a piece of shit is what gets your comment deleted, not being controversial.

Love many of their songs. Hope he lives a comfortable 20 more years.

Love their music, hope Brad win this battle.

kryptonite is a fucking huge tune. this sucks. poor fella.

Really awful news. Hope he makes a swift recovery.

Didn’t they lose their guitarist to cancer as well, about a decade ago?

Stage 4 cancer out of nowhere has got to be brutal news. I hope he manages to recover.

Also their original guitarist passed in 2016 from an overdose, and their former bassist got 10 years in prison in 2018. Band has a lot of bad luck and misfortune.

don't know anything about this band, but my condolences

"Mods deleting comments fast. It wasn't even that controversial!"

prob wildcardbitchess and snake the typical scum on this site lol

Ahh damn. This is a bummer. 3 Doors Down definitely has held a fond place in my early adulthood and even into my thirties even though they aren’t my favorite band I have always enjoyed their tunes. Sending positive vibes through the ether to destroy that cancer! Fuck you cancer!

This makes me sick and sad. :[

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i'm actually really interested as to what josh d is talking about

I'm not

He said something shitty about 3 Doors Down performing at Trump's inauguration so that justifies this guy having cancer. A really dumb comment.

ah okay very cool

surprised anyone on sput would take issue with such a comment (not a compliment)

Really sucks.

Replies on the post have an insane and depressing amount of freaks telling him to take horse dewormer or toxic amounts of vitamin D instead of seeing an oncologist.

Sounds like the internet to me

I was *waiting* for the "band played Trump inauguration therefore he deserves cancer" comment and thankfully it got deleted still being visibly referenced.

People like you fucking suck. Only thing worse than cancer is that cunts like you exist

I hate reading news like this. I hope he beats it. Away From The Sun is a great song.

I do wonder how many people will die due to trump's policies though

Dude’s 46 and has a clean record, ive heard nothing but nice things about him. Idgaf about his band being mid or not siding with me on politics, he does not deserve this

Get em shamus

I mean I don't particularly care for them and definitely dunked on them over the Trump thing but come on. I wouldn't wish stage 4 cancer on anyone, it has such a low survival rate and is a long and painful way to die. If (and it's a big if) I ever wished death on someone I'd wish for a quick death because joy at someone's prolonged suffering is just sadistic.

^ well said

Yeah, horrible politics aside, can't say many people in the history of the world deserve to suffer from what he's dealing with. I read a bunch online that his particular situation is dire and has an incredibly low survival rate so I'm hoping for the best. Their first album was a classic for me back in '00 and I still love their song Loser.

People still think Ivermectin (in the context of humans) is horse dewormer? Yikes.

huh

Some comment above mentioned people commenting on social media for him to take vitamin D and horse dewormer. I have seen people suggest ivermectin.

ah, i see. forgot about that lol

I'm not going to suggest anyone take ivermectin for cancer, but the human version is not "horse dewormer" lol it won the Nobel Prize in 2015, cured river blindness in Africa and is (was) on the WHO's list of essential medicines

Also a few comments suggesting that still doesn't justify having any thought process resembling "he voted for Trump therefore he deserves cancer"

I’m really glad ian watkins only got stabbed because wishing cancer on him would be going too far

a tremendous amount of people have had their lives deeply affected by trump & co.'s horrible beliefs and politics, probably including dozens of deaths, though unreported. Autistic people, disabled people, trans people, lgbt+ people in general, immigrants, etc. I'm frankly not surprised people hate on him and his supporters, and I don't expect people to have sympathy under those circumstances tbh

People are tired of playing nice

if you're seriously comparing Brad Arnold to Ian Watkins, you're either being deliberately obtuse or you are the stupidest fucking muppet on God's green earth

And I doubt very seriously that people are "tired of playing nice." For the last decade, the primary discourse on the left vis-à-vis Trump and the GOP is that they are fascists, bigots and existential threats to democracy. If anyone's tired, it's conservatives who are tired of having their character assassinated for simply having a different political opinion. Let's not pretend the left has *ever* attempted to reach across the isle as a unified front. I'm *not* suggesting playing nice with the most extreme example of a Trump supporter, but not playing nice with our rank and file conservative neighbors is a big part of how we got here.

And of course Trump is either willfully destructive or just too stupid to be in the position to which he was elected. So what the fuck does that say about the Democratic party that they seemingly *refuse* to beat him in an election? Everything that's occurred on the left in the last decade (2024 in particular) was an unnecessary and self-inflicted wound. No one forced them to lie about Biden's obvious decline, no one forced them to just replace their nominee at the 11th hour without a primary, no one forced them to rig a primary against Bernie Sanders, no one forced them to fund a genocide, no one forced them to wait until way too late to address the border, no one forced them to be (at best) indifferent to the genuine negative impact of recent inflation, no one forced them to embrace marginal fringe social justice causes that are unpopular. It was *all* choices they didn't have to make, but did.

"For the last decade, the primary discourse on the left vis-à-vis Trump and the GOP is that they are fascists, bigots and existential threats to democracy."

and they're right

GTA 8 will be out by the time Dems get their shit together

Also its interesting that your response is to immediately deflect to talk about democrats, as if anyone here is particularly fond of the democratic party. Not liking a political party doesn't make it an obligation to support another one

and it doesn't justify far right fascism either way

Its interesting that no one can muster a counter to anything I said. Your being "not particularly fond" of the Dems means fuck all if you're just gonna fall in line come election time. They deserve the brunt of my condemnation, because they were equipped to achieve their one job (stop Trump) and *chose* not to. The deserve the brunt of my condemnation because they've shown us time and again that they won't learn any lessons. In four years, progressives will want someone like AOC to be the nominee, but we already know it's gonna be another scummy coastal elite like Newsom. And so the *only* recourse you have to is to show them that you are capable of not voting for them.

Their not being better is *the* seminal fuck up that got us here. And there's no incentive for them to actually be better if they can count on you to fall in line.

I have an idea, keep this stuff tf out of here

again, none of that justifies being a trump supporter. none of that justifies hating on trans people, autistic people, immigrants in general, people of color, etc etc

I hate you

Who hit the angry shamus button

Shamus crashing out at the sight of his shadow

has this particular singer ever said anything about hating people of color, lgbtq+, etc? I looked it up and can't find a thing. he seems surprisingly without controversy, which is surprising bc I assumed he at least had a DUI or a drunken outrage. the worst thing he did was play for trump it seems. pretty sure he's just a mississippi baptist

It's his guitarist with the "My Pronouns are Fuck You" t-shirt that he wears at shows that give the group a bad rap (not to mention most of their music blows but that's a separate topic). I've never seen a live band sexually accost an American flag as much as this band did when I went to see them and Creed last year.

All the lead singer was guilty of doing was yelling "THANK YOU GOD BLESS" at the end of literally every song. Him and Scott Stapp had a Jesus-off at times...it was so dumb. Granted this guy seemed to be coming from a good place, Stapp just thought of himself as Jesus.

Yeah I think it's him being in the same band as someone like that + playing for trump

You can be a christian and not support trump, you can be a christian and not be like that

(note: i don't actually know if that's true about his bandmates, as i don't know much about this band)

but what about all the trump supporters that don't support genocide or whatever

no such thing - it's a contradiction

Good lord this thread sucks now.

googling this band a little, seems like they've been this way since way before trump hit the scene (?

the music video for when i'm gone is literally a jingoist stinkpiece this side of the angry american

This is not a drill. I made a list of my fav piano house tunes. Crucial listening

I did not know these things about this band, how horrifying. It makes sense to me that people would have such a disdain for them

Shamus people didn't vote for Kamala because they liked here ideas, they voted for her because they didn't want trump doing what he's doing now. Voting for democrats is a safety measure for most leftists which a lot didn't do this time anyway.

yeah - it's not done because they're fans. I imagine the same happens to some trump voters, but these guys are fans of trump, and have had their horrible ideals since way before trump

Go back to reddit where you belong

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how did this go from "guy from band gets stage 4 cancer" to "something something trump he deserves cancer" and politics
kind of sad, really.

Because someone said he deserved cancer for supporting Trump. Someone said whoa bro not cool and everyone freaked out.

Bob Bryar obituary thread 2.0

It is ironic he supports someone that cut funding to cancer research. Obv he doesn't deserve cancer for it but it just kinda sucks for everyone and its probably not going to get any better anytime soon.

he supports a lot of policies that have hurt and will continue to hurt millions of people, yeah, now including himself. It's a very unfortunate situation

"something something trump he deserves cancer"

Nah he deserves RFK's worm