Deep Purple New Album 'SPLAT!' Dropping July 3

Deep Purple will release their latest studio album SPLAT! July 3 on earMUSIC. The band — Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey, and Simon McBride — has once again teamed up with renowned producer Bob Ezrin (KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper) and together, they have crafted an album that draws on the sound and attitude that has always set Deep Purple apart from the rest. SPLAT! is their heaviest album in years, with the band playing together in the studio — the way they have always recorded. 

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“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,” says frontman Gillan, adding: “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.”

At the heart of SPLAT! is an idea conceived by Gillan. Rather than treating the end as destruction, the album imagines it as transformation: SPLAT! explores the end of humanity not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.

Photo: Olaf Heine

Additional details about the album concept will be revealed in the weeks leading up to its July 3 release. New music from SPLAT! is on the way and Deep Purple invite fans to follow the journey at their Facebook page.

To celebrate the release, the band continues their extensive 2026 touring schedule with no fewer than 86 shows across 28 countries on three continents.

Ian Gillan sums it up: “Deep Purple is in a great place right now.”