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Creed's first album in eight years, Full Circle, debuted at Number Two on the Billboard album chart on Wednesday (November 4th), selling 110,000 copies in its first week of release. It came in a distant second behind this week's chart-topper, Michael Jackson's This Is It, which moved 373,000 copies. The new record's showing is also a far cry from the last Creed effort, Weathered, which moved an enormous 887,000 copies in its first week of release.

Debuting out of the Top 10 was Jack Johnson's live En Concert, which landed at Number 11 with 39,000 copies sold, while Wolfmother's sophomore effort, Cosmic Egg, moved 28,000 copies to enter at Number 16. Meanwhile, Atreyu's fifth album, Congregation Of The Damned, arrived at Number 18 with 26,000 copies sold.



A.F.I. has confirmed a whole new leg of late fall/early winter North American tour dates as the band continues to support its latest album, Crash Love. The next round of gigs will begin on November 21st in Houston and wrap up at the end of January, with two breaks for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

Although some critics and fans have remarked that Crash Love has a harder sound that A.F.I.'s last effort, decemberunderground, singer Davey Havok told us he doesn't hear it: ["I actually don't consider it to be a harder record. There aren't really any hardcore songs on this record, whereas decemberunderground had a few of them. I do feel it's a more straightforward record and a more immediate record, and in a sense a bit more stripped down -- not on a production level, but in the sense that there's not as many layers as you will find on decemberunderground


Apocalyptica member Eicca Toppinen told the U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine in a new video interview that the Finnish rock cello outfit are currently writing the follow-up to 2008's U.S. breakthrough, Worlds Collide. The band's wish list for guest singers this time includes Jonathan Davis of Korn, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and David Draiman of Disturbed. Toppinen told us a while back why vocals became a bigger part of the band's sound on Worlds Collide: ["We've been all the time adding new elements on the Apocalyptica, based on the music we write. So it's been, all the time, we see what the music requests. A lot of songs we write at the moment, we feel that, okay, it's a great track as an instrumental but, you know, it could be so much better with a singer. So why don't we ask singer, you know?"]