Northern Irish alt-rockers Therapy? have confirmed the final tracklisting for their next album, due early 2012.

‘A Brief Crack of Light’, the band’s thirteenth release will be released on February 6th 2012 and features the following tracks:
01. Living In The Shadow Of The Terrible Thing
02. Plague Bell
03. Marlow
04. Before You, With You, After You
05. The Buzzing
06. Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder
07. Ghost Trio
08. Why Turbulence?
09. Stark Raving Sane
10. Ecclesiastes

Opening track, ‘Living In The Shadow of the Terrible Thing’ will be released as a single on January 23rd. The band will promote the album via a co-headlining tour with ragga-metal heroes Skindred throughout April, with support from The Black Spiders. The dates can be viewed here.

Seattle legends Paerl Jam have been confirmed as the headline act for the Saturday line up of next year’s Isle of Wight Festival. The other confirmed headliners are Tom Petty (Friday) and Bruce Springsteen (Sunday).

The grunge band’s visit to the UK next year sadly will not include a full tour, but the band will play a one-off date in Manchester as a warm-up for the festival appearance.

Pearl Jam’s 2010 album ‘Backspacer’ was almost unanimously well-received, earning a placing in the top ten of every major record buying country in the world (France, being the exception to this, where the album peaked at an underwhelming #20). In Autralia, New Zealand, the US and Croatia, the album hit the #1 spot.

Confirmed acts for the 2012 Isle of Wight Festival are as follows:
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Pearl Jam
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Biffy Clyro
Elbow
Example
Noah And The Whale
The Vaccines
Madness

Brazilian/US metal band Soulfly have revealed the details regarding their upcoming studio record.

The band’s eighth album is to be entitled ‘Enslaved’ and will be released on March 13th via Roadrunner Records.

According to previous reports, the new material – the first to feature David Kinkade (ex-Malevolent Creation) on drums and ex-Static X bassist Tony Campos – sounds like ‘”Arise”-era Sepultura on crack and speed’.

The confirmed tracklist is as follows:
* Resistance
* World Scum
* Intervention
* Gladiator
* Legions
* American Steel
* Redemption Of Man By God
* Treachery
* Plata O Plomo
* Revengeance
* Chains
* Slave
* Bastards
* Soulfly VIII

(Three of the above tracks will only be available on the special edition)

X-UFO, a band featuring ex-UFO members Laurence Archer, Clive Edwards and Danny Peyronel, are soon to release a live album. According to the band, the live disc – recorded in Germany – features “blistering versions of ‘Doctor Doctor’, ‘Lights Out’, ‘Rock Bottom’ and more.

As with the ex-Saxon memebers spin-off band Oliver/Dawson Saxon, the band have gained somewhat of a live following, but haven’t really made their mark in the studio. Archer and co intend to enter the studio in 2012 to begin work on a studio record.

Meanwhile, the real UFO – still boasting original members Phil Mogg (vox), Andy Parker (drums) and Paul Raymond (keys) – are to release a new album in February. Their twentieth studio outing is confirmed as being titled ‘Seven Deadly’, but no formal tracklisting has been announced at this time.

A new track by Paramore, ‘In The Mourning’ can be streamed by clicking the YouTube link below.

The track is the third and final instalment from the band’s 2011 “Singles Club” where the band issued a new track per month between October and December.  The “Singles Club” was set up as a thank you to fans for sticking with the band throughout 2011 when no other studio material appeared.  [REAL GONE SAYS: Obviously they didn’t want to thank their fans too much, since they still charged money for the three downloads!]

Paramore are set to return to the studio in 2012 to begin work on a follow up to 2009’s multi-million selling ‘Brand New Eyes’.  It is not yet known whether the three downloads issued this year – ‘Renegades’, ‘Hello Cold World’ and ‘In The Mourning’ – will be included on the album, whether as part of the main release or as bonus tracks.