On August 4, 2021, during the Hella Mega Tour, the band announced that they would not be performing at New York’s Citi Field , Boston’s Fenway Park due to one of the band’s team members testing positive for COVID-19.
On August 2, the band announced on their social media their headlining “The Re-Entry Tour” with Asking Alexandria and Point North as supporting acts.
In an August 2021 interview with The Spokesman-Review , Claypool confirmed that a new Primus album was in the works: “Some ideas are being thrown around, but we’re not there yet. We will have a new album at some point. We’re focusing on this tour and Farewell to Kings .…
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Auer quit the band in August 2021 after speaking with Kristine Chambers who had accused Stringfellow, and informed Stringfellow that he no longer planned to work with him.
In August 2021, a three-CD set of formerly unreleased demo recordings titled Never Enuff was released through Cleopatra Records.
In August 2021, just a week after their main stage set at Lollapalooza, the band canceled their summer tour, “out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of the band, crew and most of all the fans” in relation to rising COVID-19 cases in the United States…
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The 2021 tour was marred by several separate instances where members contracted COVID-19 : first, Jonathan Davis tested positive in August, causing several dates to be postponed.
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night was released on July 30.
On 27 July 2021, the band announced via their Twitter page that they were to support Nile Rodgers on one of the UK dates of his tour. They also confirmed that Rodgers would be producing the band’s fourth studio album.
The bands first EP since 2015’s Gravity called Fever was released on July 23, 2021.