Day: 8 April 2023

Brazilian death metal band, Crypta, have found themselves in a difficult financial situation after last week’s tornado in Belvidere, Illinois, resulted in a tragic incident leaving many concertgoers injured, and one dead at The Apollo Theatre, where the venue suffered structural damage.

In addition to the terrible human toll, there was also significant property damage outside of the venue. Among this was the RV that the band had rented in order to tour the U.S. for the first time. Due to the citizenship status of the band’s members, however, they are unentitled to any state assistance to cover the damages, and the band has had to recruit lawyers to assist with their insurance claim. If unsuccessful, the band will need to fork out $60K to pay the rental company for the RV. As a result, they have started a GoFundMe page to help raise the funds.

As per the official band statement:

URGENT: We need $60K in 15 days.

As most of you know, a tornado hit the show house where we played on March 31st in Belvidere Illinois and we lost the RV we rented to travel and sleep during our first US tour – it was completely destroyed, we had to rent a new one to keeping on with the shows

As we already imagined, dealing with insurance and severance has many pitfalls, and there’s a very high chance of things getting complicated for us.

It won’t be as easy as we thought it would be, we will even have to bring in lawyers to try to solve our situation. We are being guided in the best way possible, but because we are not American citizens, apparently we are not entitled to some state indemnity, which complicates our problem even more.

In short, if everything goes wrong (and there’s a huge chance it will), in 15 days we’ll have to pay for a new RV to the company where we rented it, which will be around 60K dollars, not to mention the lawyer fees we’ll need to cost during the process.

We know it’s a high value that we probably won’t reach, but at this point, any help and any amount will help a lot to lessen the financial damage that we will have.

We avoid having to ask for help from you, but at the moment, it is impossible to bear these costs with the band’s cashier alone.

Thanks in advance for the support!

CRYPTA via Facebook

As well as the financial consequences, the band are obviously still dealing with the psychological impacts of that night. As vocalist/bassist Fernanda Lira describes in a heartbreaking post:

In general, everyone is shaken – some more (like the boys who found the body of the deceased), others less, but all shaken.

Feneranda Lira via Facebook

We hope the band are able to resolve this situation and recover from the incident. Please help them to reach their fundraising goal if you can.