Wake the Light will begin a two week tour supporting Cold and Papercut Massacre in December. Current dates include:

December 2nd – New Orleans, LA @ The Hangar
December 5th – Birmingham, AL @ Five Points Music Hall
December 6th – Jackson, MS @ Fire

Complete routing will be announced later in the week. The band’s new single “Best of Me” from their forthcoming debut ‘Leave it All Behind‘ has been released to radio with a digital release coming soon. A demo of the track is available on MySpace.

Aranda will open for Papa Roach and Jet on the following dates:

October 28th – Dubuque, IA @ Five Flags Center
October 29th – Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop
October 30th – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room
November 1st – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
November 2nd – St. Marie, MI @ Kewadin Casino
November 5th – St. Paul, MN @ Roy Wilkins Auditiorium

The band’s self-titled debut, which features the singles “Still in the Dark” and “Whyawannabringmedown”, is in stores now.

A trailer for Nirvana’s ‘Live at Reading‘ release is now available at this location. The release will be available in a limited edition CD/DVD, standard DVD and a twenty-four track CD all of which go on sale on November 3rd. A double vinyl LP is due out on November 17th. Click HereIsNirvana.com for additional information.

Rob Zombie has left his record label of eighteen years, Geffen Records, to sign on with Roadrunner’s Loud & Proud imprint.

‘Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls And The Systematic Dehumanization Of Cool‘ is now set for an early 2010 release.

Fuel front-man Toryn Green has joined former members of New York based A Farewell Fire to form For the Taking. Several demo tracks can be streamed on the band’s MySpace.

Roadrunner Records has announced the signing of Canadian act Hail the Villain. The band’s debut album ‘Population: Declining‘ will be released globally in March 2010. Audio, including the single “Take Back the Fear”, are streaming on MySpace.

SOiL have debuted at No. 56 on the Billboard Hard Music chart selling 1,500 copies of their latest release, ‘Picture Perfect‘. The album is the follow-up to 2006’s ‘True Self‘ and the band’s first on their new label, Bieler Bros. Records.

On the Billboard Top 200 side, Breaking Benjamin slips two spots to No. 15 with 21,000 copies of ‘Dear Agony‘ sold.

Creed has performed the tracks “Overcome”, “My Own Prison” and “With Arms Wide Open” for Clear Channel’s Stripped series. Check out the performance here.

We Are The Fallen have signed with Universal Republic Records for the release of their debut album in early 2010. Check out the track “Bury Me Alive” on MySpace.

The band is made up of American Idol finalist Carley Smithson and former Evanescence members Ben Moody, John LeCompt and Rocky Gray plus bassist Marty O’Brien who has worked with Disturbed and Static-X among others.

In a recent interview with Billboard, Rob Zombie discussed the reasoning behind the delay of his new record, ‘Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool‘. The disc had been scheduled for a November 17th release, however it is now set for a yet-to-be determined date in 2010 due to Geffen Records not being “in a position to promote it or deal with it”.

Zombie said, “There was the sense that every little thing about the record was rushed — not the music, ’cause that was done for a long time, and that was the thing that was so annoying. We spent so much time crafting the record, we didn’t want it to be something that was so chaotic that it became, ‘Oh, that’s done and gone’ two weeks later.”‘.

A new release date for ‘Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool‘ will be announced soon.

Stone Temple Pilots plans to complete their first new album since 2001’s ‘Shangri-La Dee Da‘ following their upcoming tour which wraps up in January. A spring/summer release is expected.

Hoobastank have streamed a cover of Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters” at imeem.com.

Karnivool will release their new full length album ‘Sound Awake‘ in the United States on February 16th. Four tracks from the album, “Goliath”, “New Day”, “Set Fire to the Hive” and “All I Know”, are currently streaming on MySpace.

Creed have premiered the video for their current single, “Rain”, at VH1.com. The track is the second single from the band’s new album ‘Full Circle‘ which arrives in stores today, October 27th.

Airbourne will release their Johnny K (Distrubed, Staind) produced sophomore album ‘No Guns, No Glory‘ on February 23rd 2010.