Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse drummer, dies at 45 after cancer diagnosis announced days ago

Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green has died following a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, the band announced on Instagram on New Year's Eve. He was 45.

"I don’t know a way to ease into this: Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah. He laid down to rest and simply faded out," the post read.

"I’d like to say a bunch of pretty words right now, but it just isn’t the time. These will come later, and from many people. Please appreciate all the love you give, get, have given, and will get. Above all, Jeremiah was about love."

USA TODAY had reached out to reps for Modest Mouse for more information.

Green's death comes days after the band's frontman Isaac Brock announced Green was undergoing treatment for cancer and asked friends and fans for support.

"Some of you may have already heard, but I figured it would be good to hear the news directly from our camp," Brock wrote on the Modest Mouse Instagram page Wednesday. "Jeremiah, as am I, are believers in the power of positive energy, so if you would be so kind as to send 'good vibes' (to quote Jeremiah) in the direction of Jeremiah and his family, that'd be great."

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Fans and bandmates mourned Green Sunday.

"Sweetest dude ever. He will be missed dearly," Tony Hawk commented on the Modest Mouse post.

"The great Jeremiah Green. My friend, bandmate, and the most creative musician I ever met," wrote Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr.

Modest Mouse wrapped up their Lonesome Crowded West tour on Dec. 20 with a show in Washington D.C. and plans to perform in Mexico City in March. Green has been "pulled off" touring with the band while getting treatment, according to his friend and Rock DJ Marco Collins.

Green, Brock and bassist Eric Judy founded Modest Mouse in the 1990s and released their debut album in 1996. Since then the group has expanded to six members and together they've released eight albums. The most recent album, "The Golden Casket," was released last June under Epic records.

Before "Golden Casket," Modest Mouse made a return in 2015 with their first new music in eight years.

"We knew we had to make another album, but it took us a while," Green told USA TODAY at the time of their 2015 release "Strangers to Ourselves."

"It took us a long time to actually get down to recording. Writing songs is generally pretty easy — we play for hours on end just improvising, and then come up with a million instrumental parts, and maybe 20% of that becomes songs."

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Contributing: Elise Brisco

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