\"After the recent events at the Rengsdorf Rock & Blues Festival and the Rock Am Schloss Festival the band sees no perspective any more to go on with our drummer Thomen Stauch. Therefore we immediately release him from all duties. Even though we are aware of his personal situation we cannot ignore the fact anymore that he is still not able to carry out his duties for Savage Circus.\"

Already in summer 2005 Thomen Stauch started to cancel most of his all planned promotional activities. In 2006 he canceled the Japanese shows and wasn\'t part of any other activity for the whole year. In July 2006 Stauch claimed:

\"My entire body is totally power-drained and I am almost unable to concentrate on anything. Furthermore I am suffering from a chronic tonsillitis for almost 10 weeks by now which even with antibiotics is not getting better. According to the docs it seems that all is based on my stressed body and mind, which do not get a recovery if I go on like this.\"

Thomas Nack (Angra, Gamma Ray, Iron Savior and Running Wild) was recruited as replacement drummer.

Savage Circus gave Stauch this entire year to solve his situation in the hope that he would be able to recover and to get back into pace again. But instead Thomen Stauch almost canceled the Circle II Circle tour in spring 2007, according to the band. They state that Stauch recently canceled two festival shows (Rengsdorf Rock & Blues Festival and Rock Am Schloss Festival) with extremely short notice again. Savage Circus:

\"We are very sorry, but we cannot take this any more. We supported and backed Thomen up for over 2 1/2 years by now, but as sad as it is we must face that it is just not going anywhere. Even though we still do have a lot of understanding for his situation, we cannot allow the unintended but yet serious damage he is doing to the band in which all of us invest so much energy and work. We do want Savage Circus to happen, but we cannot see it happen with Thomen any more. We wish Thomen well and hope, that he will find his way.\"