Converge Cancels US Dates Due to ‘Serious Health Scare’

by | Jun 2, 2011

Converge has canceled the remaining US dates of its current run due to a “serious health scare.”

“Unfortunately on our day drive from St. Louis to Austin, one of our members had a serious health scare,” the band said in a statement. “We rushed him to the nearest ER were he was looked at by some fine Oklahoma doctors. After a night’s stay in the hospital and a battery of tests we were able to have him discharged earlier today. We are now racing (quite literally) to make it to our show at Chaos In Tejas, albeit extremely late, to play an abbreviated set. Wish us luck…”

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