Drowning Pool’s May 2026 South American Tour Canceled Over Poor Sales

Drowning Pool's first-ever South American tour just got pulled before it even started. The seven-date run was supposed to kick off May 20 in Bogotá, Colombia and wrap May 31 in Curitiba, Brazil, hitting Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, and São Paulo along the way ^*. But local promoters across all the cities made a joint call to cancel the whole thing because ticket sales were in the toilet ^*.

The timing's brutal considering the band's been trying to build momentum with Ryan McCombs back behind the mic. McCombs rejoined Drowning Pool in March 2023 after living in Swindon, England since 2018, and he's been pulling double duty fronting both Drowning Pool and Soil ever since ^*. The band dropped three new singles between September 2024 and February 2026—"Revolution (The Final Amen)" marked their first new music with McCombs in 13 years, followed by "Madness" and "The Wrong One"—but apparently that wasn't enough to move tickets south of the equator ^*.

It's a rough reality check for a band that exploded out of the gate with their platinum debut *Sinner* back in 2001, hitting that certification within just six weeks of release ^*. McCombs originally joined in 2005 after the tragic death of original vocalist Dave Williams, who died of natural causes on the tour bus after an Ozzfest show in Indianapolis on August 3, 2002 ^*. He left in 2011, and now he's back—but South American fans apparently weren't ready to show up for the reunion.

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^* Drowning Pool cancels South American tour due to poor ticket sales — Blabbermouth, May 13, 2026 — https://blabbermouth.net/news/drowning-pools-may-2026-south-american-tour-canceled-due-to-low-ticket-sales