Why is Bad Religion canceling upcoming 2024 tour dates? Refunds and all you need to know as band issues apology statement

Bad Religion was set to tour across North America from September 17, 2024, to October 19, 2024, in venues across the mainland United States and Canada. The tour, however, has now been canceled due to what the band has said to be 'unforeseen family circumstances':

"Due to an unforseen family circumstance, we are canceling our fall tour upcoming fall tour. We apologize for any disappointment and disruption this may cause. For ticket refunds, please visit the point of purchase. A sincere apology to @niis.losangeles for your willingness and support. Go check them out, they are fantastic."

As mentioned above in the statement, ticket refunds will be processed at the point of purchase. Authorized vendors such as Ticketmaster often automatically process ticket refunds within 30 days of cancelation. For tickets purchased through resale ticket sites such as StubHub and Vivid Seats, ticket holders have to contact the reseller for refund information.

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More on canceled Bad Religion tour

The canceled Bad Religion tour through North America would have been the band's second tour of 2024, with the band having previously toured across North America with Social Distortion from April 6, 2024, to May 20, 2024.

The North American tour with Social Distortion was followed by a Europe tour with special guests Death Lens from June 20, 2024, to July 20, 2024. The Europe tour saw the band tour across the continental European countries of Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Czech Republic, and many more.

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More on Bad Religion's recent career

Bad Religion released their latest studio album, Age of Unreason, on May 3, 2019. Their seventeenth studio album was released via Epitaph Records and became successful in the European charts upon release. The album charted at the 8th position on the German album chart and at the 12th spot on the Finnish album chart.

The band celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2021 with a tour, after postponing it from 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The lead member of the band, Greg Griffin, gave an exclusive interview with The Cornell Daily Sun that was published on August 20, 2020, in response to the question of what drove the longevity of the band:

"That’s a really tough question. I can only answer it from personal experience, and that is, I’ve seen our music grow in popularity, and I’ve seen it maintain its interest among people over generations. We get as many new fans every year who are coming to discover Bad Religion as we do old fans who have been there for 40 years."

The singer continued:

"It’s interesting; our audience now is mixed of multigenerational families who come to the shows. But what I would say is that it’s because of, from our perspective, at least, we have not compromised on the songwriting. We’ve tried to write songs and write music that has relevance to human existence."

The singer then elaborated on how the band always wanted to write and make music about timeless topics such as human evolution and how that correlates to the growth of their kind of punk music, even when they were 15-year-olds playing in a garage in San Fernando. He then concluded by pointing out that they were lucky to stumble upon the name of Bad Religion:

"..So we were always interested in writing about topics that were timeless. And we were lucky we stumbled upon the band name Bad Religion, because religion is one of those timeless topics, and there’s a tension between religion and evolution."

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The band released their autobiography, DO WHAT YOU WANT: The Story of Bad Religion, on August 18, 2020. The book was written by Jim Ruland and published by Hachette Book Group.