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Atreyu releases its fifth studio album on Tuesday (October 27th), titled Congregation Of The Damned. The disc is also the band's second effort on a major label, following 2007's Lead Sails Paper Anchor. Guitarist Dan Jacobs told us that the California group feels more comfortable on a bigger label the second time around: ["It just opens you up to a whole 'nother audience that, you know, when you first start out, you don't even really think about. You know, especially being us, like we were such a -- have such aggressive roots as a band, like, you don't really think about stuff like radio and trying to get out to that kind of audience, 'cause it's so different from what you're used to, you know. But then as you kind of grow and mature as like people and as musicians and as a band, it's almost like trying to raise the bar for ourselves


Rob Zombie has announced via his Twitter page that the "director's cut" of his latest movie, Halloween II, is "finally done," adding that it's "very different than the theatrical version." The new edition of the movie is likely to end up on a DVD release, although the arrival date for that has yet to be revealed. Halloween II came out in late August to mostly poor reviews and failed to match the box office take of Zombie's previous film, 2007's Halloween, which grossed $60 million in U.S. theatres.


The new lineup of Sublime, featuring bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh joined by new 21-year-old singer/guitarist Rome Ramirez, apparently won over thousands of fans with its first official performance on Saturday (October 24th) at the SmokeOut Festival in San Bernardino, California. According to RollingStone.com, many of the estimated 15,000 fans on hand, a large number of whom were too young to have seen the original Sublime before frontman Bradley Nowell's death in May 1996, cheered and sang along throughout the group's set.