Thunderstone forced to cancel Metalliance appearance

Finnish power metallers Thunderstone have had to cancel their appearance at this year's Metalliance festival in France. A post on their official website explained the situation in further detail:

"We are very sorry to announce that we have cancelled the planned show at the Metalliance festival in Beauvais [France] [on May 5]. We want you to know that this was entirely beyond our control. Our agent sent dozens of emails and spoke to the promoter on the phone several times, but regardless of all our efforts, no advance payment was ever made and without advance payment it is impossible for us to buy flight tickets. In addition, after tarrying so long the flight tickets would have cost us more than our fee, so we had no other option than to cancel the show. We were truly looking forward to play in France after a two-year break, but unfortunately due to unprofessional business this did not happen. We are sorry but look forward to be back in France as soon as possible!"