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Bonded By Blood Cancels European Tour Dates

Bonded By Blood has issued the following statement about canceling their upcoming European tour dates:

"We are sorry to announce that Bonded by Blood has been forced to cancel the rest of the European Massacre Tour with Fueled by Fire. Though our first part of the tour in the UK with Cauldron started out really good, we had a series of unfortunate events in the rest of Europe with Fueled by Fire and what was supposed to be Suicidal Angels. The tour was looking bad from the beginning due to poor organizing and lack of communication with the booking agency. There was also some close calls with the drivers, who weren't very experienced in long drives or driving outside of their own country.

"As some of you may know, Suicidal Angels dropped early on the tour and we almost called it quits with them. When some of the problems seemed to be resolved, we decided to give it another try and continue on the tour. Neurasthenia, thrash metal from Italy, decided they would come on tour with us last second, and we thank them very much. We finally got into contact with the booking agency and more dates were being confirmed. More importantly, we were going to receive a new driver, so there was hope that we weren't going to die on tour.

"First show in our second attempt to continue this tour was moved 4 hours from where we were told it was supposed to be. We were forced to cancel yet another show(sorry to every one in Czech republic). The last straw came when the new driver messed up the van in the middle of a highway where there was no shoulder lane. Luckily, a random Hungarian dude helped us continue and we didn't have to cancel any Hungary dates. From that moment, we decided this tour was not worth the risk financially, but most importantly we were risking the lives of our band members.

"Fueled by Fire and Neurosthenia were able to work things out so they could continue on the tour and we wish them good luck, because we've played in some of the places we had to cancel, so make sure you treat them as well as you treated us last time we were around.

"We are very sorry and would like to apologize to all the venues, bands, but most importantly we want to apologize to our fans who wished to come and watch the show. We will come back soon, and we will make up for everything, that's a guarantee.

"On the bright side, we had a lot of fun playing the few shows we got to play. We also got to have a lot of fun with our new friends Suicidal Angels, Neurasthenia(the lady's men), and Fueled by Fire(we will never forget Amsterdam). Thanks to all of you who came out to see us, and once again, sorry to all those who we weren't able to play for or with.

"For the mean time we will be working on Album number 2(no name yet). So you'll hear from us again soon and we hope to hear from all our fans soon."