Remembering Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Bobby remembers Brad Arnold, frontman of 3 Doors Down, who died on Saturday February 7th at the age of 47 following a battle with cancer. He was diagnosed with stage 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in 2025. The band shared a statement on social media announcing his death. Brad stopped by back in 2019 to talk about their biggest songs Kryptonite, Here Without You, Be Like That and more. Brad wrote most of their first record when he was in high school and started as the singer and drummer for the band.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:11.7 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:12.3 | It is Bobby, and I said on my Instagram story that Brad Arnold, who was the lead singer |
| 0:16.9 | of Three Doors Down, that he had died. |
| 0:18.9 | And so many people said this is one of the best Bobby cast they had had ever heard so i wanted to put it back up in case you guys had missed it |
| 0:26.0 | maybe you hadn't even subscribed at the time and maybe you didn't know a story so i'm going to get |
| 0:32.2 | to that but brad passed away age 47 following a battle with cancer that he was very public about. |
| 0:38.4 | He had stage 4 kidney cancer. |
| 0:41.7 | He announced that in 2025, the band shared a statement which announced his death, which |
| 0:48.7 | was the first I'd heard of it too. |
| 0:50.5 | They said with heavy hearts, we shared the news that brad arnold founder lead singer and songwriter of |
| 0:55.7 | three doors down passed away on saturday february seventh at the age of 47 with his beloved wife |
| 1:01.6 | jennifer and his family by his side he passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones in his sleep |
| 1:07.4 | after his courageous battle with cancer. |
| 1:12.4 | So I'm going to play this for you. |
| 1:15.8 | And I was fortunate enough to get to know Brad over the last six or seven years. |
| 1:19.0 | And it started with a morning show appearance, |
| 1:21.5 | like so many times it does. |
| 1:25.1 | And then I think he was on the show a second time. |
| 1:30.3 | And then I went and hosted a three doors down anniversary special for them so just returning the favor also I just really like |
| 1:35.7 | Brad and then Brad played with us on one of our raging idiots million dollar shows and |
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