Municipal Waste

Municipal Waste

American thrash metal band Municipal Waste has been forced to cancel its planned European tour due to "an unforeseen family emergency".

Singer Tony Foresta, guitarist Ryan Waste, bassist Land Phil and drummer Dave Witte finished the North American leg of their Waste of the World trek in December - and the band was planning to jet to Europe in the coming months.

But frontman Foresta recently logged on to social networking website Twitter.com to break the news to fans, although he failed to give any further explanation.  He wrote: "Sorry to cancel Europe. We'll make it up to you. Family first!"

 A full statement is expected within the next few days.