UPDATE: Judas Priest Cancel Present As a consequence of Rob Halford’s Chilly, Will Resume Tour on Thursday | MetalSucks

Replace: In accordance with Richie Faulkner in an interview with East Coast Stay, the “non-COVID associated sickness” that canceled the band’s Lowell, MA, present is a chilly in Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford. Nonetheless, Richie has made it clear that the band will make their subsequent present in Halifax, saying (as transcribed by Blabbermouth):

“We’re resting up. Yesterday, we needed to, sadly, cancel the present. And the explanation for that’s in order that we will protect our well being and get higher. Rob’s obtained a little bit of a chilly. So we will protect our well being, get again on monitor and do the remainder of the reveals in Canada. Yeah, that’s what we’re aiming to do.”

Unique story:

Bummer for Judas Priest followers in Massachusetts — the band needed to cancel their present at Tsongas Heart at UMass Lowell final night time (April 4th) because of a “non-COVID associated sickness.”

Priest issued the next assertion in regards to the matter:

“It’s with remorse we announce that sadly tonight’s present at Paul E Tsongas Enviornment, Lowell, MA is being cancelled because of non-covid associated sickness. We hope to have the ability to make this present up within the close to future. Refunds out there at level of buy.”

All tickets shall be mechanically refunded through bank card. If tickets had been bought with money on the field workplace, please go to the Tsongas Heart field workplace for a full refund.

To begin with, everybody at MetalSucks hopes whoever is in poor health within the Judas Priest camp has a swift and full restoration. Now, with these effectively needs out of the way in which, iiinteresting. With out resorting to rampant hypothesis right here (rumours and hypothesis — at MetalSucks? Definitely not!), what do we expect this may very well be? Did somebody simply get a extremely unhealthy flu, or is that this one thing extra important? You would possibly wish to hold your eye on this story, as it would unfold in larger element in a while within the day/week.

This has been one fraught tour total. First, the tour needed to be re-rescheduled after Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner suffered an aortic aneurysm onstage, Then, the band introduced that they’d be touring with out guitarist Andy Sneap and heading out as a four-piece. Nonetheless, the fan backlash from this announcement was extreme, with numerous followers saying that they’d relatively not see the band in any respect than see them with out duel guitars. This compelled Priest to declare that they’d tour as a five-piece in spite of everything, with frontman Rob Halford admitting that the Quartet Priest thought was all his thought.

ANYway, you may get tickets for Judas Priest at one of many remaining dates on their tour under:

4/7 – Scotiabank Centre – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [tickets]
4/10 – Videotron Heart – Quebec Metropolis, Quebec, Canada [tickets]
4/11 – Place Bell – Laval, Quebec, Canada [tickets]
4/13 – FirstOntario Centre – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada [tickets]