Helloween will no longer be performing at the Hellsinki Metal Festival in Helsinki, Finland and the Bloodstock Open Air festival in Derbyshire, UK due to Michael Kiske suffering from “acute laryngitis.” Apocalyptica will take their place at the Hellsinki Metal Festival and KK’s Priest will take their place at the Bloodstock Open Air festival.
Helloween issued the following statement:
“The heavy storms in Slovenia (our thoughts are with the flood victims) and cloudbursts in Wacken couldn’t harm us – we played all our scheduled shows and celebrated together with our loyal fans.
Much more difficult for us is now to inform you that we have to cancel the upcoming festival gigs at the Hellsinki Metal Festival in Finland and Bloodstock Open Air in the UK due to an acute laryngitis our singer Michael Kiske is suffering of.
We did make this decision with a lot of consideration and with heavy hearts but Michael’s condition unfortunately does not leave us any other choice. Thanks for your understanding.”
Metal Anarchy 
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