By the time they hit the road, Good Charlotte and Sum 41 will each be supporting new albums. Good Charlotte's "The Chronicles of Life & Death" is due in stores on Oct. 5, while Sum 41's "Chuck" is scheduled to surface on Oct. 12.

To usher in "The Chronicles of Life & Death," Good Charlotte will make a series of early October in-store appearances at Tower Records locations in New York City; Cherry Hill, NJ; Rockville, MD; and West Hollywood, CA. Details are available at the band's website.

"The Chronicles of Live & Death" is the follow-up to 2002's double-platinum "The Young and the Hopeless."

"Chuck," Sum 41's follow-up to 2002's "Does This Look Infected?," is named for Chuck Pelletier, a United Nations representative who helped to evacuate the group from its May trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was shooting a documentary about that country's longstanding civil war with the nonprofit group War Child Canada.

The band arrived during a time of cease-fire, but violence broke out while they were in the country. "[Pelletier] herded the band into the lobby, then ran with them through gunfire to an armored tank and eventually to safety," said a press release issued by Island Records.

Streaming-audio and streaming-video versions of "We're All to Blame," the first single from "Chuck," are posted at Sum 41's website.