Manchester Orchestra Drummer, Timothy Very, Lifeless at 42

Manchester Orchestra is reeling after the sudden demise of their longtime drummer Timothy Very.

The Atlanta-based indie rock band broke the heartbreaking information Saturday, telling followers they’re struggling to course of the lack of the person they known as the “foundation” of their universe. Of their emotional assertion, the group admitted that they had been “dreading sharing this news” and are nonetheless in “absolute disbelief.”

Very joined Manchester Orchestra again in 2011 and went on to turn out to be the longest serving drummer within the band’s historical past. Over greater than a decade, his thunderous enjoying powered among the band’s greatest information. Offstage, the band says he was pure coronary heart.

The group described him because the “most beloved human being” they had been fortunate sufficient to know … somebody whose humor, heat and bigger than life presence held everybody collectively by means of years of touring, recording and life on the highway.

Up to now, no reason behind demise has been revealed.

Past his profession, the band emphasised that Timothy’s proudest position was being together with his household, saying the one factor he liked greater than music was his family members.

Tim was 42.