Halloween II director Rob Zombie is taking a break from moviemaking to return to music - the rocker is set to go on tour before the release of his next film.

The follow-up to Zombie's 2007 remake of the horror classic opened in theatres this month and busy Zombie has already signed on to direct a remake of The Blob, which he will begin shooting in the spring of 2010.

However, in between his film work, the rocker will return to the stage, launching a North American tour following the release of his as yet untitled fourth solo album in November. And Zombie insists touring is a welcome change of pace from moviemaking.

He tells Blabbermouth.net, "Touring is awesome, because making a movie is very, like, meticulous and it's totally... time-consuming. When you're the director, you're on (under pressure) seven days a week, all day long - it's this meticulous type of process (sic)."

"So, to go on tour, where all we have to do is hold it together for an hour onstage and whatever we do the rest of the time doesn't matter - you can be a complete mental patient... Touring is the great way to break free from that."

Zombie's last solo album, Educated Horses, was released in 2006.

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