HYPOCRISY: Forced to Sit Out North American Tour, ABORTED CANCEL OUT OF ARSIS, KRISIUN,STARKILL and AUTUMN’S END NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Swedish death metal warriors HYPOCRISY and Belgium grind core warriors ABORTED have announced the band has cancelled out of their spring 2013 NORTH AMERICAN tour with KRISIUN, ARSIS, STARKILL and AUTUMN’S END citing VISA issues.

HYPOCRISY unleashed  "End Of Disclosure",  3/22/2013 (EU), 4/2/2013 (NORTH AMERICA) via NUCLEAR BLAST.

FROM ARSIS: 

While Hypocrisy is forced to sit out the upcoming North American tour...as they say, the show must go on!

ARSIS and rest of bands will continue with tour. We hope to see you there. Upcoming tour dates at http://on.fb.me/arsistour

FROM HYPOCRISY:

HYPOCRISY have been forced to sit out the upcoming North American tour this May due to reasons beyond their control. The band members had received their visa approvals and everything was going as scheduled, until the embassy let them know that the earliest they could pick up their visas, get them stamped and so on, wasn't until late June at the earliest. A regular procedure that would normally take just a few days to sort, takes much longer at the moment due to that current workload Homeland Security is experiencing.

“As we were getting ready to go get our visas stamped and ready for the tour we were informed that the earliest we could go initially was sometime in July,” explains guitarist/vocalist Peter Tägtgren.“We then immediately continued to call them, got the label to help with some letters, and put our lawyer to work etc. The best that got us was an appointment in late June. This is a HUGE blow to us, to our fans and everyone who has supported HYPOCRISY in North America. Sometimes there are battles you can’t win, and this is one of them. We will be back, I can promise that!”

The trek was also initially set to feature Brazilian brothers in death KRISIUN,Belgian gore-grindersABORTED, and technical-melodic-death-masters ARSIS,as well as AUTUMN’S END and STARKILL on select shows. The tour will continue as previously scheduled at this time minus HYPOCRISYand ABORTED.

FROM ABORTED: 

Unfortunately rumors are true. We were forced to pull out of our north american tour with hypocrisy,krisiun and arsis. Due to reasons beyond control, hypocrisy were not able to receive their us visas in time and had to pull out. We only found out 3 days ago and were sharing transport with hypocrisy. Being this close to the start of tour finding an affordable method of transportation and a driver was a near impossible task, making it impossible for us to still make it. We are extremely disapointed as we were very excited to make it back out to the us for our fans and share the stage on this great line up. We had flights booked. Visas processed and everything good to go so when the news hit it came as a shock. This cost us several thousands of dollars out of our own pockets and continueing would cost us even more money which we simply dont have. We apologise to the fans and are already looking for a replacenent tour in the near future. Krisiun and arsis are still doing the tour and we urge you all to still go and support them. All the bands here are victims in this of bureaucratic procedures so no need to point fingers. We are all as broken by this as anyone else.

ARSIS HEADLINING SOLO SHOWS:

4/30/13  Café611 – Frederick, MD

KRISIUN, ARSIS

5/01/13 TheGramercy – New York, NY *

5/02/13 Palace – Stafford, CT *

5/03/13 Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC *
5/04/13  WreckRoom – Toronto, ON *

5/05/13  TheFoundry – Cleveland, OH *

5/06/13 Reggie’s – Chicago, IL *

5/07/13 Station 4 – St. Paul, MN *

5/08/13  TheZoo – Winnipeg, MB *

5/09/13  TheExchange – Regina, SK *

5/10/13  PawnShop – Edmonton, AB *

5/11/13 Republik – Calgary, AB *

5/12/13 Branding Iron Pub – Armstrong, BC (ARSIS and STARKILL only)
5/13/13  Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, BC *

5/14/13 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA **
5/15/13  Branx – Portland, OR 
5/16/13  Oakland Metro – Oakland, CA **

5/17/13  TheVex – Los Angeles, CA **

5/18/13 Joe’s Grotto – Tempe, AZ **

5/20/13 Trees – Dallas, TX **

5/21/13 Korova – San Antonio, TX **

*with STARKILL
**with AUTUMN’S END

ARSISHEADLINING SOLO SHOWS:

5/22/13 Chameleon Room - Oklahoma City, OK

5/23/13  TheRiot Room - Kansas City, MO

5/25/13 Headliners Middle Room - Toledo, OH

5/26/13 Smith's Downtown - Mishawaka, IN

5/27/13 Broadway Joe's - Buffalo, NY

5/28/13  TheSmiling Moose - Pittsburgh, PA

5/29/13 Diamond Pub & Billiards - Louisville, KY

5/30/13  TheMasquerade - Atlanta, GA
6/01/13  Scion Rock Fest – Memphis, TN

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-