Nü-metal quintet Cold plan to pull out of this year's Ozzfest lineup in order to join Staind on a summer tour.

The outing, which could be subtitled Durst's Directorial Darlings, since the Limp Bizkit frontman helmed videos for both bands (see "Video For Cold's 'No One' A Nightmare For Director Durst" and "Staind Take Tour Break For 'Awhile' With Fred Durst"), is scheduled to kick off in mid-May and run through mid-August, according to an Interscope spokesperson. Another Durst creation, Puddle of Mudd, will serve as show openers. That band's debut album is scheduled to drop in July.

A spokesperson for Ozzfest notes that organizers still have a signed contract with the band and consequently have not taken any steps to revise the second-stage lineup.

Staind would be supporting their second album, Break the Cycle — the follow-up to 1999's Dysfunction — which is scheduled for a May 8 release. Cold, meanwhile, plan to use the roadwork to further promote their second album, 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage, released in October.

This wouldn't be the first instance of Cold backing out of a prior summer-tour commitment. Last August, the group bailed on the final few dates of the Tattoo the Earth outing to play selected dates of the Napster-sponsored Back to Basics Tour with co-headliners Limp Bizkit and Cypress Hill.