Add Whitesnake to this summer's casualty list. The group has cancelled the remainder of its tour with Judas Priest after lead singer David Coverdale was ordered by doctors to stop singing immediately to prevent serious damage to his vocal chords.

Coverdale lost his voice during the group's August 11 concert at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO, forcing the group to cut short their performance. After being seen by a specialist, it was discovered that Coverdale was suffering from severe vocal chord edema and a left vocal chord vascular lesion.

Today's recap includes tour announcements, special concert event updates and more, as compiled by TicketNews on April 29, 2009.

In tour news, Jakob Dylan's main band The Wallflowers has announced a three-month tour of the U.S. for this summer. The final venue announcements have been made for Aerosmith and ZZ Top's nearly four-month summer outing. Also, as Britney Spears ends her North American concerts, new dates await her in Europe during June and July.

Nearly 30 years after the release of "British Steel," English heavy metal icon Judas Priest will celebrate the anniversary with a special tour of the United States. During the venture, roughly outlined with nine dates, the band will perform the 1980 album in its entirety, as well as other classic hits.

The anniversary tour is currently scheduled to run from July 1 at The Family Arena in Charles, MO, through August 5 at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, CA. Additional tour dates and ticket on-sale information will be announced leading up to the tour.

Judas Priest is giving away free ticket to a dozen of its August concerts to lucky fans who purchase any configuration (regular cd edition, limited edition-deluxe hard-bound version and limited edition deluxe box set with 3LP's, 2 CD, book and poster) of the initial pressing of the band's double disc concept album "Nostradamus," which contains a special code. The album will be released on June 17. The limited edition box sets are only available at Best Buy.

The specially marked album’s will contain an insert inside the CD package with an exclusive code for one free lawn ticket to see Judas Priest on selected dates of the Metal Masters tour this summer, courtesy of Live Nation, the tour's national producer. This seemingly too-good-to-be-true offer will be good while supplies last and will not pertain to all the dates of the Metal Masters tour.

Metal legends Judas Priest will release a sprawling double disc concept album, called “Nostradamus” (Epic), on June 17 in the U.S. and a day earlier in the UK/Europe via Columbia Records. As with all Priest releases, the group will mount a mammoth worldwide tour in support of the album. Among their stops are several metal festivals, including the 2008 Download Festival on a bill also featuring Kiss which will serve as a homecoming of sorts for the group as they performed at the first-ever ‘Monsters of Rock Festival’ at Donington Park in 1980.

Priest’s Euoropean/UK dates run June 3 in Helsinki, Finland to July 13 in Istanbul, Turkey. Their North American leg begins July 22 in Seattle, WA. Dates are confirmed through July 30, with more to be announced.