Atlanta based heavy rock powerhouse FOZZY has postponed the first two weeks of its previously announced summer/fall 2022 “Save The World” tour due to a throat injury suffered by the band’s lead singer, wrestling superstar Chris Jericho.
According to a statement released by FOZZY earlier today: “On August 10th during the Quake By The Lake AEW event in Minneapolis, Chris suffered a throat injury that left him with a severely bruised larynx. Unfortunately, even though the injury is healing and is NOT permanent, Chris hasn’t fully recovered and his laryngologist has recommended that FOZZY postpone the first two weeks of the Save The World tour (scheduled to start in Columbus on Sept 8) in order to facilitate a full recovery as soon as possible.
“The postponed shows have been moved to the Spring of 2023. The rescheduled dates can be found at www.FOZZYROCK.com. All tickets remain valid!
“The next leg of the Save The World tour will now start on September 29 in Charlotte. FOZZY appreciates each and every one of you and we can’t wait to rock with you again at FULL STRENGTH very soon!!”
Check out the new tour itinerary below.
FOZZY is continuing to tour in support of its eighth full-length studio album, “Boombox”, which came out in May. The follow-up to 2017’s “Judas” features FOZZY‘s anthemic single “I Still Burn”, their newest Top 20 hit at Mainstream Rock radio. The official music video for “I Still Burn” recently eclipsed one million views. The 12-track collection, produced by Johnny Andrews, also features the Top 10 singles “Nowhere To Run” and “Sane”.
The band inched up the ladder after releasing four progressively popular studio albums in the 2000’s. However, it was 2012’s “Sin And Bones”, which featured the hit single “Sandpaper” (over 4.6 Million views on YouTube) that found the band reaching a level of legitimacy that drew a mass audience to drink in their trademark heavy melodic groove. The album eventually reached #143 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, but it was their next album, “Do You Wanna Start A War” (produced by Ward), released in the summer of 2014, that really blew the door open, debuting at #54 on Billboard and giving the band their first top 30 single in “Lights Go Out” which was blared in sports arenas nationwide.
But as much success as the band had enjoyed, nothing compared to the juggernaut of 2017’s “Judas” album. Released in May 2017, the aforementioned title track spent 5 weeks at number one on the highly influential Big Uns Countdown on Sirius/XM’s Octane channel, amassed over 58 million views for its video on YouTube, cracked the Top 5 on the US Rock Radio Charts and is still heard by millions of fans worldwide weekly on TBS Network’s hugely popular “AEW Dynamite” program. The follow up singles “Painless” hit Number 9 on the charts (almost 11 million views on YouTube), “Burn Me Out” peaked at Number 18. The current record “Boombox” features “Nowhere To Run” which cracked the Top Ten, “Sane”, (with its roller coaster themed video- one of the most thrilling & heart stopping ever made) landing at Number 8 and “I Still Burn” currently at #8 and rising, scoring a trifecta of singles for “Boombox” released May 6, 2022.
Now, with those massive songs in their arsenal,FOZZYlooks forward to being back on the road for their “Save The World” 2022 Tour. After sharing the stage in recent years with Metallica, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Shinedown, Slash, Three Days Grace, Nickelback, Steel Panther & Buckcherry, FOZZY is stoked to storm back on the stage to bring good times and kick ass tunes to their fans around the world… and elsewhere
