Blabbermouth<\/a>): \u201cHey, everybody. Kirk Windstein from Crowbar here, and I have an announcement to make. As everybody knows, or most fans know, I had to perform sitting down last year during the Crowbar\/Eyehategod U.S. tour. And I have a bilateral synovial cyst on my spine that is beginning to flare up again, and it\u2019s giving me a lot of problems.<\/p>\n\u201cTo cut straight to the point, it\u2019s acting up and has been for a couple of weeks now, so I begin physical therapy tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, we have to cancel this upcoming European tour. I have been touring for 36 years, and I\u2019ve never canceled a tour. But due to my physical health at this point, I\u2019m unable to get on plane flights and ride in the van for two weeks and catch two flights home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I do apologize, and I understand y\u2019all will be disappointed, understandably, but we\u2019re gonna do everything we can to make up these shows. We\u2019re not rescheduling the tour, but just to make up these cities next year when we\u2019re over in Europe with Crowbar.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo thank y\u2019all for understanding and all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canceled dates:<\/p>\n
July 27 \u2014 Bra\u015fov, Romania \u2014 Rockstadt Extreme Fest<\/p>\n
July 28 \u2014 Belgrade, Serbia \u2014 Belgrade<\/p>\n
July 29 \u2014 P\u00e9cs, Hungary \u2014 P\u00e9csi Est<\/p>\n
July 30 \u2014 Cham, Germany \u2014 L.A. Cham<\/p>\n
July 31 \u2014 Lacznik, Poland \u2014 Lacznik<\/p>\n
Aug. 1 \u2014 Lobnitz, Germany \u2014 Full Rewind<\/p>\n
Aug. 2 \u2014 Essen, Germany \u2014 Turock<\/p>\n
Aug. 3 \u2014 Aschaffenburg, Germany \u2014 Colos-Saal<\/p>\n
Aug. 4 \u2014 M\u00fcnchen, Germany \u2014 Backstage<\/p>\n
Aug. 5 \u2014 Jaromer, Czech Republic \u2014 Brutal Assault Festival<\/p>\n
Aug. 6 \u2014 Frankfurt, Germany \u2014 Das Bett<\/p>\n
Aug. 7 \u2014 Kortrijk, Belgium \u2014 Alcatraz Metal Festival<\/p>\n
A synovial cyst is a fluid-filled sac that develops between joints in the spine, most commonly in the lumbar region of the lower back. Windstein had previously been required to perform seated during Crowbar\u2019s co-headline U.S. run with Eyehategod, indicating the condition had been an intermittent issue prior to this cancellation.<\/p>\n
Crowbar\u2019s most recent album, Zero And Below, was released in April 2022 via MNRK Heavy. Produced, mixed and mastered by Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording And Production in Metairie, Louisiana, the record was described as the band\u2019s most doom-driven effort since the 1998 landmark Odd Fellows Rest. The band\u2019s current lineup features Windstein alongside guitarist Matt Brunson, drummer Tommy Buckley and returning bassist Pat Bruders (Down, ex-Goatwhore). Crowbar was founded in New Orleans in 1990 by Windstein and drummer Jimmy Bower (Down, Eyehategod); Windstein remains the sole original member across twelve studio albums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crowbar has canceled its summer 2026 \u201cConfess To Nothing\u201d European tour following an announcement from frontman and founding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50902,15,11616,38263,50955,50903,50956],"class_list":["post-98524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-europe","tag-crowbar","tag-european","tag-featured-second","tag-heavy-metal","tag-jimmy-bower","tag-kirk-windstein","tag-pat-bruders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}