Poetry on Fire

Missouri · Metalcore

About Poetry on Fire

Poetry on Fire is a metalcore band from southeast Missouri featuring Kaleb Webb on vocals and guitar, Evan Chapman on drums, Zebb Chapman on lead guitar, and Jacob Martin on bass. The band blends metalcore intensity, punk energy, and melodic alternative rock in songs built around hope, healing, and spiritual awakening.

Kaleb and Evan have been best friends since they were five. When Kaleb was homeless as a teenager, Evan kept showing up and inviting him into the church community where his life changed. Poetry on Fire grew from that friendship and from a decision to return to music on different terms. The band describes its mission plainly: to see the captive set free through the power of Jesus Christ.

Interviews

Homeless at 15 to Evangelist

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Kaleb Webb and Evan Chapman have been best friends since they were five. Then Kaleb nearly didn’t survive being a teenager, and Evan refused to stop showing up.

At fifteen, Kaleb was homeless and stealing food to feed his sisters. Evan kept inviting him to church until Kaleb finally broke at an altar and heard the Holy Spirit say, “If you give Me your life, I will give you a new one.”

Now they front Poetry on Fire, a Christian metalcore band from southeast Missouri with one mission: to see the captive set free. We talk about their friendship, surrendering music to God and the unlikely road from garage recordings through a sock-wrapped USB microphone to approximately 60,000 monthly Spotify listeners at the time of recording.

Kaleb also gives us his unfiltered perspective on where AI belongs in Christian music, where it doesn’t and why other Christians have criticized him for using it.