Avatar have postponed five November concerts in Britain and Ireland, citing personal circumstances and asking for privacy.
The shows are Wolverhampton on 20 November, Southampton on the 21st, Cardiff on the 22nd, Dublin on the 24th and Belfast on the 25th. New dates have not been named. The band say the rest of the tour goes ahead as planned and resumes in Norwich on 27 November at the UEA.
From there the run continues through Newcastle and Edinburgh, then on to Amsterdam, Oberhausen, Budapest, Prague, Innsbruck, Linz, Ulm, Esch sur Alzette, Zurich, Frankfurt, Padova, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Bratislava and Wroclaw, closing on 19 December.
Their statement adds that there is no reason to worry, which is the kind of sentence a band writes when they know what the internet will do with five cancelled shows and no explanation.
Avatar formed in Gothenburg in 2001 and have been going with Johannes Eckerstrom singing since 2002, through eleven albums and a long drift from melodic death metal towards the theatre they run now.