Los Angeles  - Supergroup U2 is to release its next album, No Line On The Horizon, in early March, the Irish band's record label Interscope said Thursday.

The band's 12th album would be released worldwide on March 2 except in the United States, where it would hit stores a day later.

No Line on the Horizon is the follow-up to U2's previous hit, 2004's How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, and the band was expected to embark on a tour in 2009 to support it. (dpa)