Extol was set to play their first US present since 2005 this month at Furnace Fest. Due to the everlasting clusterfuck that’s visa points, Extol has sadly had cancel their look on the competition. Furnace Fest organizers word that Extol did every thing of their energy to make the present occur, however immigration did not cooperate.
“We’ve got obtained some very, very unhappy information for these going to Furnace Fest,” mentioned Extol. “We’ll sadly NOT have the ability to play at Furnace Fest 2023 for the straightforward cause that we didn’t get our visas in time. We’ve got had no affect on the method occurring on the immigration division, and so the kafkaesque technique of acquiring visas has been out of our management.
“We will hardly consider this surreal state of affairs. We’ve got been ready and ready and ready for the visa course of to finalize however to no avail. Furnace Fests inquiry to play this years competition is what sparked our determination to begin taking part in stay once more, so evidently, we really feel horrible! It pains us to know that quite a bit you will have spent your hard-earned cash to come back see us play, and that we won’t be able to be there.”
Furnace Fest organizers added: “Sadly, after months of delays and maintain ups from the immigration division, we’ve the dangerous information that Extol will not be taking part in this yr. The band is to not blame, they did every thing of their energy to make this occasion occur. And we exhausted many assets attempting to get the visa course of taken care of with no luck. We all know this bums a lot of you out together with the band and the FF crew. We hope that they’ll make it again and play the fest sooner or later!”
The excellent news is that a minimum of Extol seems to be within the studio engaged on their first new album since 2013.
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