Avenged Sevenfold Forced to Delay Latin American Tour Due to M. Shadows’ Vocal Injury
Ah shit, here we go again. Unfortunately, it appears that Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their Latin American tour for this year—which was supposed to start this past Thursday, September 25 in Buenos Aires, Argentina—because of their frontman M. Shadows. He’s hurt his voice again, and it is yet again a doozy.
This time, Shadows was diagnosed with a vocal fold hematoma, which is a condition where the blood vessel in the vocal cord ruptures, causing blood to seep into the lining of the cord. That seems like a whole lot.
Yesterday (Friday, September 26), the band released the following statement:
“With a heavy heart, and regretfully, we have to announce that due to a specific condition called a vocal fold hematoma, we have made the necessary decision to push our tour to early next year. We promise to come back stronger than ever. Your tickets will still be valid for the rescheduled shows — new dates are on the way and will be announced next week. Thank you for your understanding, love, and support.”
M. Shadows further explained the decision in a short video posted to the band’s socials. Here’s what he said, as transcribed by Blabbermouth:
“Hey, everyone. What’s going on? [I’ve] got some discouraging news. “[We’re] gonna have to postpone the Latin American tour. I got my voice in some sort of trouble. After [performing at the] Louder Than Life [festival], I got a little sick and I thought that my throat was feeling crummy from being sick. I came down to Argentina. I felt like it was probably the travel, the schedule, et cetera. Monday and Tuesday came. I slept a bunch. I didn’t feel any difference. So we postponed Buenos Aires. The next day, got a bunch of sleep, woke up and I felt like something wasn’t getting better. So I found a great doctor in Argentina, went and got my throat scoped. And I have a hematoma on my left vocal fold, which is the same injury I had in 2017. In 2017, though, I decided to keep singing through it. I took a bunch of pills and ended up resulting in surgery. So, basically, if I shut this down now, I’ll have a couple weeks of voice rest and then a couple months of rehab and we’ll be able to remake these dates to you. So I’ve gotta make the responsible decision here and shut this down.
“This will be the last time I’m talking for a couple weeks,” he continued. “It breaks my heart I have to do this, but we’re gonna be able to reschedule these dates for January. Apologies to everyone who’s made plans, spent money. Hopefully this is early enough to make you able to make the proper plans and kind of change the dates to January. Apologies to the bands. All of them have flown down here already. Our crew, everyone’s already down here. The equipment. A lot goes into this, but I have to make the responsible decision and there’s just no way I can sing like this. And I don’t want another surgery. So we’re gonna take the responsible route here, shut it down for a couple months and… Just sorry this had to happen. It just sucks. I can’t wait to see you guys in January. Sorry.”
The rescheduled dates haven’t been announced, though we do know they should hopefully start in January of next year. It sucks because this tour would’ve been the first time the band went to Latin America in over a decade. The currently affected dates are:
Sep. 28 – Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Movistar Arena
Sep. 30 – Santiago, Chile @ Movistar Arena
Oct. 02 – Curitiba, Brazil @ Pedreira Paulo Leminski
Oct. 04 – Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Allianz Parque
Oct. 08 – Bogota, Colombia @ Movistar Arena
Oct. 11 – Mexico City, Mexico @ Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú
Oct. 14 – San Juan, Puerto Rico @ Coliseo de Puerto Rico
