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ROB ZOMBIE SAYS TIME WAS RIGHT FOR 'HELLBILLY DELUXE 2'

Rob Zombie already made one sequel this year with his fourth effort as a director, Halloween 2. But who knew that he had another sequel in the works, this time to his first solo album? Zombie told us why he decided to call his new studio album Hellbilly Deluxe 2, 11 years after the first one came out: ["I'd had the idea for Hellbilly Deluxe 2 for quite a while, and now seemed like the time because on the last record, Educated Horses, everything about that was the stripped-down record. Sometimes you need to strip everything away in order to build it back up. You know, and at that time period, I just didn't feel like doing it. It was not inspired, it felt like, eh, you know, whatever. Now, you know, you kind of find your way back to it. Sometimes you have to get away from things to be sort of re-inspired to do it again, and that's kind of what happened here."]



'WORLD NEEDS A BREAK FROM FALL OUT BOY,' SAYS PETE WENTZ

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz told Reuters in a new interview that the world "needs a break" from the band, but did not definitely say whether they would be just taking a hiatus or splitting up for good. When asked about doing a follow-up to their 2008 album, Folie A Deux, Wentz said, "I think that there's nothing worse than when you like a band and you get their record and you can totally tell that their music is uninspired and they just felt like they had to put out a record. We have been grinding so much that we haven't had the time to kind of figure out what we want to do creatively."

Questioned directly about whether the group was over, Wentz replied, "We are going to stop doing Fall Out Boy when Fall Out Boy stops being fun. I think that the world needs a break from Fall Out Boy as much as Fall Out Boy needs a break from the world . . . Maybe we will start recording again in two weeks; maybe it will be three years. I don't really know. There is no plan in motion at all and no one has said the 'H' word (hiatus) no matter how many times people try to get us to say it."



ORIGINAL KISS DRUMMER REVEALS BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER

Original Kiss drummer Peter Criss took to his personal website to reveal that over the last year he's battled breast cancer. Now cancer-free, Criss wants to inform people about it and encourage men and women to get checked -- just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. He writes: "In '08, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, but with (early detection) my great doctor Alex Swistel and staff and the Lord above, who always looks over me, I am cancer-free today!!!" Criss added: "I wanted to let you know men get it like women do. Don't be afraid to let someone know if you have a lump. Do the right thing for you and your loved ones and get it checked. Man or woman, there is no discrimination with breast cancer ... we all don't have nine lives."