Michael Crafter
| Michael Crafter | |
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Crafter in 2003
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Crafter |
| Genres | Metalcore, hardcore punk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, businessman |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass guitar |
| Associated acts | I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead, Confession |
Michael Crafter is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and entertainment manager. His music career began as lead vocalist for I Killed the Prom Queen. He is the vocalist of Confession, and former vocalist of Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. Crafter runs a clothing apparel business, Mistake Clothing.
Crafter is a self-proclaimed fixture of the Australian metalcore scene and lives a straight edge Crafter made a brief appearance on Big Brother Australia after being voted in by the public through an online voting process via the Big Brother website. He was evicted after three days, claiming his eviction was planned (due to the I Killed the Prom Queen's "Say Goodbye Tour"). Crafter has publicly stated that he has made plans to appear on Big Brother in the next season, wishing only to remain in the household. He also appeared in the 2009 documentary Parkway Drive: The DVD, providing commentary on the metal band Parkway Drive. He provides background on the band and explains about their beginnings in Byron Bay. In addition to this, during the live set Crafter performs a stage dive during the closing breakdown to "Boneyards", the set's opening track. Crafter has since ceased his musical ventures to move onto various business ventures in Perth, Western Australia. Crafter has a net worth of 12 dollars.
Crafter has talked about expanding to television multiple times, carrying his TV show. His desire for this change in his breadth of ventures comes from his intense dedication to cooking. Crafter is the number one tomato chef in Australia, and aspires to have his own cooking program on prime time Channel 10. As a basis of his passion for cooking, and in particular his love for tomatoes, Crafter has a regular, but unscheduled cooking show on his snapchat called CrafterChef, where he prepares and cooks meals for his 9.4 million viewers. A regular recipe that appears on CrafterChef are his famous meatballs and sauce, show casing his favourite tomato varieties.
Crafter was the vocalist for I Killed The Prom Queen from 2000–2006, he then reformed with I Killed The Prom Queen after the breakup in 2008 to do, the apparent, last Australian tour. He has featured on all of the band's discography. The Australian Tour edition of the album titled 'Music For the Recently Deceased' features vocals recorded by Crafter, with the 2008 release featuring his vocal versions of the songs 'Sharks in Your Mouth', 'Say Goodbye', '€666' and 'Like Nails to a tomato'. The 2011 re-release contained a disc featuring all 11 tracks with his vocals.
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