Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Matt Krupanski of BoySetsFire has passed away
Regarding the death of their co-founding drummer Matt Krupanski, BoySetsFire has released a statement, as per theprp. The post-hardcore group posted the following about his passing on social media yesterday, March 28. On behalf of the Chaoszine team, our deepest sympathies to Krupanski’s family, friends and loved ones.
We hate to write this. Today the BSF family lost one of our founding members, our drummer Matt Krupanski.
Words are failing us. Snapshots of memories skitter through our mind.
Picking him up for our first tour from high school which his parents had to give permission to leave early.
Writing ATE and Rookie in his parents’ basement.
Smoking cigars on the beach in North Carolina after playing a very misleading Bed and Breakfast (no bed no breakfast).
His weird ass drummer gang with Tucker from Thursday, Mike from the Souls and Brandon from Rise Against.
Abusing Tony Victorys open bar tab in Chicago
Our intense madden games which often led to near violence (not even kidding).
Matt playing guitar in Pussy Tim and the Mother Fuckers; a side project that wasn’t real at what we thought was a sparsely attending festival but when the lights came up there were 25000 people there.
There is so much more.
We are so fucking sorry George. We are so sorry Carla. We are so sorry Marc and Melissa. And our heart breaks for his daughter Georgie. We are so sorry.
We are gutted. Our hearts are shredded. We lost a brother today.
We are planning on a fund raiser for Georgie maybe for college or whatever the family decides.
Matt you are missed and we love you.
-BSF
In late 1994 and early 1995, BoySetsFire published their first demo albums. “This Crying, This Screaming, My Voice Is Being Born”, the band’s debut EP, was released in 1996. They recorded their debut album, “The Day the Sun Went Out”, in 1997 after signing a deal with Initial Records. Following the recording of their second album, “After the Eulogy”, BoySetsFire embarked on a tour with Vans Warped and Snapcase in 1999. Then, in 1999, BoySetsFire issued a split EP with Snapcase; in 2000, they released another with Coalesce; and in 1999, they published the “Crush ‘Em All Vol. 1” Metallica homage with Shai Hulud for Undecided Records. Rob Avery took the position of their previous bassist.