Matt Krupanski, Founding Drummer of BoySetsFire, Has Died

Matt Krupanski, founding drummer of post-hardcore band BoySetsFire, has passed away. No cause of death has been given.

His passing was announced on the band’s Instagram, where on Saturday they posted the following message:

“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. 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.”

Krupanski co-founded BoySetsFire in 1994 alongside vocalist and keyboardist Nat Gray, guitarists Josh Latshaw and Chad Istvan, and bassist Darrell Hyde. He played with the post-hard-core band from their early days through to their 2007 hiatus, and also the initial drummer coming out of that hiatus in 2010 until his retirement from BoySetsFire in 2012 to pursue a career in architecture.

With the band, he appeared on four full-length albums, as well as a slew of demo albums, EPs, splits and other releases. After leaving BoySetsFire, Krupanski eventually became the director of engineering at Hadley Exhibits, Inc.

Our condolences go out to Krupanski’s family, friends, and bandmates during this difficult time.