July 15, 2012
Yesterday at the Bang Your Head festival in Germany, Tobias slipped and fell off the stage during the 5th song of Edguy's set. While the band continued to play, Tobias fell into the photographer‘s pit, hit the concrete ground and received several injuries which turned out to be a fracture of his nose, a severe hip contusion, a severe rib contusion and several abrasions and cuts. Nevertheless the band played their full set and went on for another hour, while it was obvious to fans that Tobias was in severe pain. Luckily he is okay and sent us the following message:

"Thanx for your kind wishes, I am alright. I do not have a clue how it happened, the stage wasn't damp, my shoes were alright, I do not have to mention that I was completely sober as this must have been obvious to everyone. I have no clue how it happened. I just fell and suddenly there was blood and a little pain, which got worse song by song. I didn't know you can squeeze so much blood out of such a little nose (well, it‘s not exactly little at this point...). The doctor just said the nose will be fine in a few weeks. Anyway, there was too much adrenaline to stop the show. The fans were so great, it just felt wrong to stop the show, so we decided to just go on and have the doctors repair me afterwards. I am okay now, looking terrible and hurting, but who cares... I‘ll be fine. Thank you for your wishes and for making the show a great show, despite the little incident... Cheerzz, T"