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AS the Rolling Stones unveil new material in their 64th year, ‘our’ equivalent Deep Purple are following suit.
The heavy metal pioneers came together six years after the Stones and will release their 24th platter, Splat!, via EarMusic on July 3. The Stones’ upcoming Foreign Tongues will be their 25th record so these two old collective codgers are neck and neck.
In a media release, Splat! was described as “the heaviest Deep Purple album in many years”.
Singer Ian Gillan – who recently revealed he is losing his sight – said: “Where we are now with this incarnation of Deep Purple feels very much like a very ‘now’ version of Deep Purple as it was in the seventies.
“I have to say, now we are very much back in with material that is compatible with ‘Highway Star‘, ‘Smoke On The Water’, ‘Lazy‘, the dynamics, the balance, and the fun of the music we made from ’69 to ’73.
“Deep Purple is in a great place right now.”
And the subject matter certainly seems appropriate to the dreamy intellectualism of the late 1960s: the end of humanity – but in a good way.
“Rather than treating the end as destruction, the album imagines it as transformation,” Gillan says in a statement. “Splat! explores the end of humanity not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.”
It’s the second album with Irish guitarist Simon McBride, the first since =1 in 2024.
Track listing:
“Arrogant Boy”
“Diablo”
“The Rider”
“The Lunatic”
“The Only Horse In Town”
“Sacred Land”
“The Beating Of Wings”
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