Last week, DJ Mark Ronson confirmed he was to appear at the Future Music Festival in Australia.

It was announced via the Triple J website earlier today (Australian time) the Ronson will now not be appearing due to a scheduling conflict offering “an unmissable opportunity”.

The festival is to visit Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane between March 3rd-12th 2012. Other confirmed acts include Fatboy Slim and New Order.

Pioneering black metal band Venom have been confirmed an appearance on the “70000 Tons of Metal” cruise.

The British band will join Kamelot, Suffocation, Overkill and Cannibal Corpse among the confirmed line up of metal acts on a four day cruise taking place at the end of next January.

The cruise leaves Florida on 23rd January and takes in the Cayman Islands before returning.

The confirmed line is:

ALESTORM
AMORPHIS
ATHEIST
CANNIBAL CORPSE
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CORONER
DARK FUNERAL
ELUVEITIE
GOD DETHRONED
GRAVE DIGGER
HAMMERFALL
IN EXTREMO
KAMELOT
MOONSORROW
MY DYING BRIDE
NIGHTWISH
OVERKILL
PENTAGRAM
PESTILENCE
PRETTY MAIDS
RIOT
SAMAEL
STRATOVARIUS
SUFFOCATION
TANKARD
THERION
TRISTANIA
VENOM
VIRGIN STEELE
WHIPLASH

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)