Founding drummer for Staind, Jon Wysocki, has handed away at the age of 53. Wysocki’s dying was confirmed by his bandmates in Lydia’s Castle.

“On 5/18/2024 at 8:02pm, Jon Wysocki passed away surrounds by family and friends that loved him dearly,” the band wrote on social media. “An official statement will be developed shortly.”

Several followers, friends and bands shared their condolences throughout Lydia’s Castle’s social media channels.

Prior to drumming with Lydia’s Castle — and following his departure from Staind in 2011 — Wysocki performed with Soil, who’ve additionally shared their condolences.

“Today we lost one of the greats,” Soil shared. “Jon Wysocki was not only a great friend, a great drummer, but a great human being. It was an honor to have him in SOiL for the time we did. We had so many laughs, so many good times. You will be missed dearly. Until we meet again dear friend.”

Upon the information of Wysocki’s dying, Blabbermouth reported that he had been “having issues with his liver that required him to be under the care of medical professionals.”

Jon Wysocki Helped Form Staind in 1995

In 1995, Aaron Lewis, Mike Mushok, Johnny April and Wysocki shaped Staind in Springfield, Mass. A yr later, they launched their unbiased debut album, Tormented.

Even although the album prompted vital controversy attributable to its graphic art work and nearly value them a chance to open for Limp Bizkit, as soon as Fred Durst noticed them carry out reside, he helped signal them to Flip Records.

Wysocki carried out with Staind by the recording of their seventh, self-titled studio album. Just a few days earlier than asserting particulars about Staind, although, he left the band.

Staind could be the band’s final album till 2023’s Confessions of the Fallen, which options Sal Giancarelli on drums. Giancarelli was Staind’s drum tech starting in 1999; when Wysocki left, Giancarelli stepped in for his or her reside performances and finally sat within the studio with the band for Confessions.

What Made Jon Wysocki Stand Out as a Drummer

In the August 2001 problem of DRUM! journal, Wysocki opened up about his drumming type.

“I’m sure there are people who could smoke my ass and could be doing what I’m doing,” he informed journalist Jared Cobb within the journal’s cowl story. “But it’s not a one-man show.”

Explaining what he meant by that, Wysocki admitted that he favored to work as a crew participant.

“Rather than overplay and try to outdo other members of the band, I try to work for the song … It’s not a competition. You need to be a team player. Really, that’s what it is. It’s a package deal. And you have to work as a team. You have to be on the same page and want to do the same things.”

READ MORE: Mike Mushok Discusses Staind’s (*53*) Over the Years

The bundle deal of Wysocki, April, Mushok and Lewis led Staind to turning into one of the profitable bands to come back out of the post-grunge, nu-metal motion of the late-’90s and early-’00s, because of the aggression of their second album, Dysfunction, and the large business success of its follow-up, Break the Cycle.

Staind haven’t but launched a press release on Wysocki’s dying. This story shall be up to date as extra information comes out surrounding this tragic loss.