Crowbar cancel all upcoming European shows

Sludge metal experts Crowbar have suffered a severe blow amid a burgeoning comeback, as per theprp. Due to frontman/guitarist Kirk Windstein’s persistent back problems, the group was forced to postpone its summer European tour. Windstein fought a back problem last year and had to tour while seated.

Hey, 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/EyehategodU.S. tour. And I have a bilateral synovial cyst on my spine that is beginning to flare up again and it’s giving me a lot of problems. To cut straight to the point, it’s 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’ve never canceled a tour. But due to my physical health at this point, I’m unable to get on plane flights and ride in the van for two weeks and catch two flights home. So I do apologize but… and I understand y’all will be disappointed, understandably, but we’re gonna do everything we can to make up these shows. We’re not rescheduling the tour, but just to make up these cities next year when we’re over in Europe with Crowbar.

So thank y’all for understanding and all the best.

The American sludge metal group Crowbar was founded in 1990 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kirk Windstein, the only consistent member of Crowbar, is the band’s lead singer and guitarist. Windstein has acknowledged that he dislikes the name “sludge metal,” although Crowbar and other bands in the New Orleans heavy metal scene invented it by mixing the aggressiveness of hardcore punk with a sluggish, melancholy doom metal sound. The group has also covered songs from other genres, such as Led Zeppelin‘s “No Quarter” on “Crowbar”, Iron Maiden‘s “Remember Tomorrow” on “Odd Fellows Rest”, and Gary Wright’s “Dream Weaver” on “Equilibrium”. The group was founded in 1988 when Kirk Windstein joined ShellShock, a hardcore punk band from New Orleans.