Ghost's Tobias Forge has claimed that some bands have been using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to to cancel their tours with low ticket sales. During an interview on the Drinks with Jhonny podcast, he said, “Well, the problem now is that a lot of these bands find the bottom line not to be satisfactory. They don’t go out and say, ‘Look, we’re not making as much money as we wish, so we’re going to cancel or we’re going to postpone till the stars are aligned and the marketplace looks better.’
He continued, “They go out and tell the crowd, ‘Oh, because of safety concerns we’re not touring,’ and that is a f*cking horrible message to the crowd, to the rest of the business to everyone that we’re all relying on – as in all the promoters and everyone working at the venues, everybody working as vendors, all the crew members, all the bussing companies, all the truck companies, all these people who just had their tour cancelled just because these three, four or five dudes/girls just decided that the money wasn’t great.