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Brad Arnold, the vocalist with US stone set 3 Doors Down, has revealed helium has been diagnosed with signifier 4 kidney cancer.
The 46-year-old said in an Instagram video that helium has "clear compartment renal carcinoma that had metastasised into my lung", adding: "And that's signifier four, and that's not existent good."
The set made it large successful the aboriginal 2000s with hits similar Kryptonite, Here Without You and It's Not My Time, and person sold much than 13 cardinal albums successful the US.
"Now, I judge It's Not My Time is truly my song," Arnold wrote to fans successful an accompanying caption. "This'll beryllium a conflict truthful we request our prayers warriors!"
3 Doors Down emerged from Mississippi to interruption done with their deed Kryptonite, which reached fig 3 successful the US successful 2000.
Their debut medium The Better Life was the 11th biggest-selling medium of the twelvemonth successful their location country.
They returned to the apical 5 with the 2002 singles Here Without You and When I'm Gone, and scored US fig 1 albums with Seventeen Days successful 2005 and a self-titled LP successful 2008.
They besides performed astatine President Trump's archetypal inauguration successful 2017.
In his video, the vocalist and drummer said: "You cognize what, we service almighty God, and helium tin flooded anything. So I person nary fear. I americium really, sincerely not frightened of it astatine all.
"But it is going to unit america to cancel our circuit this summer, and we're atrocious for that.
"And I'd emotion for you to assistance maine up successful supplication each accidental you get, and I deliberation it's clip for maine to possibly spell perceive to It's Not My Time a small bit, right?"
Clear compartment renal carcinoma is the astir communal benignant of kidney cancer, and signifier 4 is the astir serious, meaning it has dispersed to different portion of the body.