JUNKYARD Singer DAVID ROACH Dies After Battle With Most cancers

JUNKYARD frontman David Roach has died after a battle with most cancers.

On Saturday (August 2),Roach‘s JUNKYARD bandmates shared the next message through social media: “It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce the passing of David Roach.

“After a brave battle with most cancers, David handed away peacefully final evening at residence, within the loving arms of his spouse.

“He was a gifted artist, performer, songwriter, and singer — however above all, a faithful father, husband, and brother.

“Our ideas are with your entire Roach household and everybody who liked him.”

This previous February, it was introduced that Roach was identified with an aggressive type of most cancers. It was later revealed that he was battling an “aggressive squamous cell carcinoma affecting his head, neck, and throat”. He reportedly obtained the shock prognosis after falling unwell with a “fever and cough”

Roach, who had been a part of JUNKYARD since 1987, married his spouse Jennifer Michael-Roach on July 19, 2025.

A GoFundMe web page, which was launched by Jennifer together with a few of David‘s shut mates, raised $35,000 for the singer’s remedy as he had no earnings coming in and was “struggling to maintain a roof over his head”.

In 1989 JUNKYARD burst on to the scene with its self-titled debut launch on Geffen Information which featured the MTV “Hip Clip Of The Week” “Hollywood”. Receiving heavy rotation on each MTV and on rock radio put the band among the many forefront of the crop of rock bands popping out of Los Angeles within the late Nineteen Eighties.

A number of excursions with the likes of LYNYRD SKYNYRD and THE BLACK CROWES (who supported JUNKYARD on their first U.S. tour) quickly adopted and the follow-up launch “Sixes, Sevens & Nines” featured the radio hit “All The Time In The World” in addition to the ballad “Slippin’ Away” co-written by legendary songwriter Steve Earle.

Again in 1992, JUNKYARD was a well-oiled machine, their earlier two releases carried out effectively, that they had a number of movies in rotation on MTV and profitable membership and area excursions underneath their belt. Seeking to infuse extra of their musical sensibilities into their third effort, they started writing and recording and in a brief few months, that they had compiled over 20 songs. The brand new materials mirrored extra of their alt/punk roots, which wasn’t a lot of a directional change contemplating their sturdy punk pedigree. However the main label’s rush to leap on the following “well-liked music development” shortly led to JUNKYARD‘s demise.

“At this level, NIRVANA‘s ‘Nevermind’ album had been out just a few months and all of us form of knew which approach the wind was blowing,” Roach recalled in 2019. “We did not actually ‘formally’ break up as a band; it was so simple as the get together’s over.” So, with zero fanfare, the bandmembers signed their launch paperwork from Geffen (a whopping two-page fax),gathered their gear and parted methods. Twenty years later, Geffen re-released the primary two JUNKYARD albums and as soon as once more, the band was in demand. Excursions of Japan and Europe adopted, together with a headlining slot at Serie Z competition in Spain, and the band began writing once more. In early 2017, JUNKYARD launched “Excessive Water”, their first full-length album in 26 years, on Los Angeles unbiased document label Acetate Information. The album peaked at 24 on Billboard‘s Onerous Rock charts and JUNKYARD as soon as once more performed to packed homes throughout America and Europe.