News•March 21, 2020 12:53 PM ET•3,267 views

Bury Tomorrow album release postponed

Bury Tomorrow had been scheduled to release their new album, Cannibal, on April 3. That was, of course, before the COVID-19 pandemic threw the world off its axis. As such, its release has been postponed until the summer (July 3, if various digital retailers are to be believed). Bury Tomorrow have issued this statement (though they do not specifically mention a new album release date):

"As you are all probably very aware by now, the Corona Virus has led to many difficulties for everyone, and sadly our industry was always going to take a serious hit. "All in-store signings and release shows we had planned in April are now postponed until a later date. We are working hard with our team and the many variables involved to reschedule these dates for later in the year, more information on that will be provided as soon as we confirm new dates. All current tickets will remain valid and we WILL celebrate this record together! "All five of us are absolutely gutted by this. The last year of our lives have been building towards the release of Cannibal and we were so excited to celebrate with as many of you in person as possible. But the real priority here is all of our collective health, and as human beings we have a responsibility to take this as seriously as we can. "Stay safe everyone, keep smiling and look out for each other!"

For anyone who doesn't follow Lambgoat on Twitter, look for this situation to affect myriad release dates this spring:

by the way, it's not just live shows that have been impacted by the pandemic... look for a bunch of album release dates to be pushed back too because of the potential effects upon sales numbers
— Lambgoat (@lambgoat) March 20, 2020

in some respects, but because of decreased cash flow among music fans in addition to problems with physical inventory, many labels are going to consider it too risky
— Lambgoat (@lambgoat) March 20, 2020