Chad Gilbert, New Found Glory founding member and lead guitarist, dead at 45

LISTEN I ONLY READ THIS AN HOUR AGO AND IT HAPPENED IN A HOSPITAL WHERE THEY DID NOT NAME THE CITY BUT THE LOBBY WAS PACKED WITH VISITORS WHICH MATTERS BECAUSE HE WAS DEEPLY CHERISHED AND IT TURNS OUT CHAD GILBERT THE FOUNDING LEAD GUITARIST OF NEW FOUND GLORY HAS DIED AT FORTY-FIVE YEARS OLD AND HIS WIFE LISA CIMORELLI AND THE BAND POSTED ON INSTAGRAM THAT HE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEEP ON SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH WITH HIS WIFE AND MOTHER BY HIS SIDE AND THE THING IS HE BATTLED STAGE FOUR ADRENAL CANCER SINCE 2021 WHICH SPREAD TO HIS SPINE LUNGS AND BRAIN AND HE HAD EMERGENCY BRAIN SURGERY IN FEBRUARY AFTER COLLAPSING AT HOME AND WHILE NO CAUSE OF DEATH WAS SPECIFIED HIS BANDMATES SAID HIS GUITAR PLAYING AND DRIVE SHAPED THEM FOR THREE DECADES AND HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER LILY.

RIGHT HERE IS WHERE IT GETS GOOD FORTY-FIVE IS THE NUMBER AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING BECAUSE CHAD GILBERT THE LEAD GUITARIST AND FOUNDER OF NEW FOUND GLORY HAS DIED AFTER BATTLING RARE ADRENAL CANCER SINCE 2021 AND HIS WIFE LISA CIMORELLI AND HIS BANDMATES POSTED ON INSTAGRAM THAT HE PASSED AWAY IN HIS SLEEP ON SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY AND THE THING IS HE HAD UNDERGONE EMERGENCY BRAIN SURGERY BACK IN FEBRUARY AFTER COLLAPSING AT HOME AND DOCTORS FOUND THREE BRAIN TUMORS WHILE THE BAND WAS PROMOTING THEIR LISTEN UP ALBUM AND HE WENT THROUGH RADIATION AND IMMUNOTHERAPY AND HIS BANDMATES JORDAN IAN AND CYRUS SAID HIS SONGWRITING AND HUMOR SHAPED THEM ACROSS MORE THAN A DOZEN ALBUMS OVER NEARLY THREE DECADES. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND HIS DAUGHTER LILY.

Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist of punk rock band New Found Glory, has died at age 45 following a yearslong battle with adrenal cancer.

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