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Fans of Godsmack are used to hearing the band play abrasive rock songs with plenty of attitude and lots of volume. Frontman Sully Erna's growl isn't going anywhere, but the band's next release will be a bit quieter.

An all-acoustic record is due November 18 and will feature stripped-down versions of hits like "Voodoo" and "Serenity" as well as new tracks, according to a spokesperson for the group.

"We decided to do an acoustic record because we have always messed around with acoustic versions of our music and gotten great reactions to it," Erna said in a statement. "Reworking the songs this way shows a different side of the band."

Godsmack are in a Hawaii studio with producer David Bottrill figuring out which songs to include on the disc. Bottrill first worked with the band on "I Stand Alone," which surfaced on "The Scorpion King" soundtrack and then on Godsmack's Faceless, which came out in April.

Though the project came together fairly spontaneously, with the band choosing to record in Hawaii because it was a convenient stop on the way back from an Asian tour, Erna's been hungering to do an unplugged album for a while.

"I have a lot of acoustic tracks that I'd like to release some day," Erna said in an interview in November 2001. "I might do something that has more of a vibe like [Alice in Chains' acoustic disc] Jar of Flies. That's just another side of me that I love. I just love music."

After the acoustic record is done, Godsmack will launch a North American tour, first in Canada, then in the States, with the aim of hitting markets they missed on this year's Faceless tour.