Korn Cancel European Tour

Hard-rock band Korn has been forced to cancel its European tour due to a blood disorder called immune thrombocytopenic purpura, suffered by frontman Jonathan Davis, who was hospitalized in London over the weekend.

The act played a shortened set on Saturday at Britain's Download Festival with the help of guest vocalists from Slipknot, Devildriver, 10 Years, Skindred and Avenged Sevenfold (read more at UG story).

Davis has been ordered by doctors not to perform for several weeks, necessitating scrapping dates through July 2 in Leipzig, Germany. The band is hoping to reschedule the shows later this year.

Davis' illness is not expected to affect the band's Family Values tour, which is due to begin July 27 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf and Dir En Gray will also be on that bill.

Thanks for the info to Reuters.

Comments

[ToesKa]

yeah friends of mine weren't really happen after this news

[funkynasoo]

sucks man they were awesome at download still with the guest vocalists, sounds like he was in a bad way

[ShanZE]

they canceled provinssirock and I'm not going to see them now. this sucks major balls... i hope he gets better.

[l3xbi]

yes, that makes a lot of sense 12 string...
shadows and corey were the best stand in vocalists.
hope he gets better!

[Morgy]

yeh i was looking forward to seeing them in dublin supporting metallica. they didn't show up
well i hope he gets better.

[metallicman]

thats too bad, i saw KoRn at download when jon was in hospital and they were really good with corey taylor up front but its a shame, i hope jon davis gets better soon.

[Volkl]

KoRn were good at Download but that's a damn shame about Jonathan. Hope he gets better soon.

[INNOCENT VICTIM]

Hope you get better Jonathan and can't wait to see you guys on Family Values!!!!!

[trox]

i hope he gets better, this tour should be sweet

[chinesechipmunk]

1.) The guest vocalists list missed Matt fropm Trivium.
2.) Why did they say 'Slipknot vocalist'? Slipknot, as far as I'm aware, are on hiatus while Corey and Jim do Stone Sour stuff, which was why they were there. He wasn't even in the mask... just seems a bit strange to me.
3.) In the summary, it says it's unspecified, and then in the article is specifies it.
4.) Finally, I'm surprised the writer didn't mention how badly ill he was. He had one twenty-eighth of the minimum level of platelets to be considered healthy... Apparently, if he'd gone to download he'd have died on stage. If he so much as headbanged, he'd have had a hemorrhage.

He posted a letter on korns website - www.korn.com - in case any of you are interested. It's a weird site to navigate through, though.

[arrayofemotions]

Wow... nitpicky

Anyway, i wonder what replacement Graspop is going to get to fill the empty gap in the schedule. Hopefully it'll be something better!

[codybcool]

I find it amusing that the article refers to them as a 'hard-rock band'. Korn is and always will be Nu-metal damn it, they cannot change that.

[PapaDelicious]

but it's not like there's anything explicitly wrong with 'nu-metal', either. Really a shame about him though, but at least it (hopefully) won't have any permanent effects.

[codybcool]

I wasn't implying there's anything wrong with it, i don't like it myself, but it's just that all the nu-metal bands have tried to change their image and sound ever since it became 'uncool' to like it and that irritates me slightly.

[inbloom93]

the lead singer almost died cause of headbanging. that's the stupidest thing i have ever heard.

[Horvat]

chinesechipmunk wrote:

1.) The guest vocalists list missed Matt fropm Trivium.
2.) Why did they say 'Slipknot vocalist'? Slipknot, as far as I'm aware, are on hiatus while Corey and Jim do Stone Sour stuff, which was why they were there. He wasn't even in the mask... just seems a bit strange to me.
3.) In the summary, it says it's unspecified, and then in the article is specifies it.
4.) Finally, I'm surprised the writer didn't mention how badly ill he was. He had one twenty-eighth of the minimum level of platelets to be considered healthy... Apparently, if he'd gone to download he'd have died on stage. If he so much as headbanged, he'd have had a hemorrhage.

He posted a letter on korns website - www.korn.com - in case any of you are interested. It's a weird site to navigate through, though.

Why are you are analysing this article so closely?
Why would they include Matt Heafy? He is part of the metalcore scene, and covers bands such as Iron Maiden and Metallica. I doubt he would be interested in doing Korn shows.
And they called Corey the 'Slipknot singer' because that's what Corey is, and is known for. Not everyone knows about Stone Sour.
And what is it that is unspecified that you mention?

[Stolenidentity1]

inbloom93 wrote:

the lead singer almost died cause of headbanging. that's the stupidest thing i have ever heard.

No you idiot, he has a blood disease. He could have died if he did headbang, f*ckin dumbas.s

[dirtysock]

well thats some intresting news i suppose....i like korn a bit....

[BluE DicE]

"ITP occurs most often in women over 40 years of age. It may be acute, lasting for 6 months or less, or chronic, lasting for over a year. The acute type is more often seen in children and will cure itself in more than 80% of cases. The chronic type is more commonly seen in adults and it tends to get worse as the disease progresses."

[MadMudgeN]

I actually got that disease when i was 8 months old, probably the acute version from the above post. It caused all my muscles to bruise for no reason, and almost killed me because I got bruises on my diaphragm and heart which could've caused them to stop working. But I'm alive, and I kind of feel for Jonathan Davis, because I've seen pictures of me with it (I don't remember having it obviously) and it looks AWFUL.

[Logz]

checked

[flamencogod]

I'm happy... now there won't be so many n00b kids at the graspop festival...

I hope he gets better soon

[christophicus]

IF they are rechedualing the dates does that mean that our alredy bought tickets will work for the new dates they announce??

[Raoulbanez]

Dude! pity again.. I want to see those guys... but anyway, goodluck to jonathan.