ENTOMBED Explains U.S. Tour Cancellation

Sweden's ENTOMBED has issued a statement explaining the band's reasons for the cancellation of its previously announced West Coast tour with DISMEMBER and GRAVE. The statetement reads as follows:

"Due to circumstances beyond our control, ENTOMBED sadly has had to postpone their upcoming USA West Coast trek.

"We were very much looking forward to this tour, but conflicts with the promotor, breach of trust and straight-up lies have unfortunately forced us to cancel at the eleventh hour. Never in 15 years of touring the States has this happened, which really is saying something. We are appalled, and you should not be surprised if you see/hear more lies spread about how it is ENTOMBED's fault that we could not do the tour because we changed our minds or some shit like that. Simply not true. We've never seen blame passed around like this ever before and deeply regret having lent our name to this madness.

"We abominally want to apologise to good folks like Dinis of THE MIGHTY NIMBUS, who have taken time off work and rented a car to come see the show, but look forward to hitting American shores in 2007, hot on the heels of our upcoming studio album release, 'Serpent Saints'."

ENTOMBED's "When In Sodom" EP was released earlier in the year. A new full-length effort, "Serpent Saints", was recorded at Soundland studio in Upplands Väsby, Sweden and is scheduled for release in early 2007. The CD is the group's first without the contributions of guitarist Uffe Cederlund, who left the band in September 2005.

As previously reported, drummer Peter Stjärnvind left ENTOMBED in order to concentrate on his membership in the Swedish cult act NIFELHEIM. He has since been replaced in ENTOMBED by Olle Dahlstedt (ALPHA SAFARI, ex-MISERY LOVES CO.). Stjärnvind and his wife recently welcomed their first child, a daughter.