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DEEP PURPLE today (July 3) release their new studio album SPLAT! worldwide on earMUSIC. With three singles—“Arrogant Boy,” “Diablo” and “Guilt Trippin’”—already making waves, listeners worldwide have eagerly been awaiting DEEP PURPLE’s 24th studio album. With SPLAT!, DEEP PURPLE turn ‘the end of humanity’ into a hard rock album. The new album doesn’t deal with the end as destruction, but as transformation—a metamorphosis beyond physical existence. What sounds like a heavy concept becomes unmistakably DEEP PURPLE: driven by the sound and attitude that has always set the band apart from the rest. Recorded with renowned producer Bob Ezrin, SPLAT! follows the band’s last four studio albums, all of which reached #1 in multiple countries, underlining one of the most remarkable career runs in rock. “I have to say, now we are very much back in with material that is compatible with ‘Highway Star,’ ‘Smoke on the Water,’ and ‘Lazy’—the dynamics, the balance, and the fun of the music we made from ’69 to ’73,” frontman Ian Gillan says about the new album. On the eve of the album’s release, fans had the chance to experience the entire album at pre-listening events in selected music venues and indie record stores worldwide, from Milan to Mexico City. To celebrate the album release, DEEP PURPLE are currently on a major 2026 touring schedule. Following European summer dates, the SPLAT! World Tour heads to North America before bringing the band back to major arenas across Europe in autumn and to South America in December. Tickets are available via Deep Purple’s official website. SPLAT! is available now in multiple formats, including CD Digisleeve, 2LP Gatefold black 180g vinyl, limited purple 2LP, limited transparent yellow 2LP, limited box set and digital. Further exclusive fan items are only available on the official SPLAT! shop.
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Track listing (CD/2LP): Side A Arrogant Boy Diablo The Rider The Lunatic Side B The Only Horse In Town Sacred Land The Beating Of Wings Side C Guilt Trippin’ Scriblin’ Gib’rish Jessica’s Bra Side D Third Call My New Movie Splat!
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ABOUT DEEP PURPLE There simply aren’t enough superlatives to properly acknowledge the contribution DEEP PURPLE has made to rock music. Having sold more than 120 million albums and filled global arenas for decades, there’s little wonder that the respected British radio station Planet Rock named the group the “5th Most Influential Band Ever.” The band were also presented the “Legend Award” at the 2008 World Music Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. DEEP PURPLE truly are “rock royalty.”
With a body of work spanning seven decades, DEEP PURPLE have helped pioneer and define the hard rock genre while progressively moving into new areas, both keeping their sound fresh and attracting new fans to the legions who have remained loyal since the band’s inception. The celebrated MKII line-up of Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore was responsible for creating many of the defining rock albums of the early ’70s, including Made in Japan universally accepted as one of the most important and influential live albums of all time.
Known as one of the hardest working bands ever, DEEP PURPLE have continued to release No. 1 albums and tour globally since forming in 1968, with little rest.
DEEP PURPLE have stayed true to their musical roots, drawing from an eclectic mix of styles to create a distinctive sound that defines the band today and, in turn, has created a legacy that very few bands could ever hope to replicate. The band has written and produced so many “classic,” well-known songs that its audience ranges widely in age and background—something the band has readily embraced.
DEEP PURPLE’s recent studio album =1 (2024) followed their worldwide chart-topping albums Whoosh! (2020), inFinite (2017) and NOW What?! (2013). 2026 sees the release of their brand-new album SPLAT! On these albums, DEEP PURPLE joined forces with producer Bob Ezrin, who has worked with the likes of KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper.
Furthering their collaboration with Ezrin, in 2021 and during the pandemic the band recorded a collection of cover songs from their own homes (normal for most bands nowadays, revolutionary for a band that records everything together in the studio), creating an eclectic and celebratory history of their roots in music, in the shape of Turning to Crime.
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Simon McBride continue with renewed vitality, pushing the boundaries of hard rock to audiences around the globe, proving that DEEP PURPLE are very much here to stay.
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