Due to U.S. tour commitments, Santa Barbara, CaliforniametallersDEVILDRIVERhave been forced to cancel their appearance at this year's edition of theWacken Open Airfestival, set to take place August 4-6, 2011 in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

BassistJonathan MillerquitDEVILDRIVERlast month, calling it "the most difficult decision of my life" but "something that I needed to do for myself."

In December 2010,Millerannounced that "the drugs and alcohol" "finally caught up" with him after spending the bulk of the last decade on the road withDEVILDRIVER. He added that "the damage [was] catching up with [him] mentally and physically" and that he was going to enter "an intense rehabilitation program" in January "in order for [him] to reclaim [his] health and the person who [he] once was." He also stressed that he needed "to make a change so that [he could] save [his] own life and keep the friends that [he] still [had] left."

Filling in forMilleron the road withDEVILDRIVERfor the past few months has been the band's tour manager,Bubble(a.k.a.Aaron Patrick), who has previously played withBURY YOUR DEAD.

"Beast", the fifth album fromDEVILDRIVER, sold a little over 11,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 42 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Source: www.BlabberMouth.Net