Deep Purple Release New Single “Guilt Trippin’” Ahead of Upcoming Album ‘SPLAT!’

Deep Purple have dropped a new single “Guilt Trippin,” giving a first taste of their forthcoming studio album SPLAT!. The song elegantly combines the band’s hard rock sound with a surreal story-driven concept and features outstanding vocals from Ian Gillan. It comes as excitement is building around the project – which has already attracted positive early reaction from fans and media.

A press release from Deep Purple’s team announced that the highly-anticipated SPLAT! album is due out on July 3 via earMUSIC.

“Guilt Trippin’” begins with a deceptively gentle piano intro and soon bursts into one of SPLAT!’s most unpredictable and exhilarating moments—featuring one of Ian Gillan’s most memorable vocal performances on the album. Behind the music lies another one of SPLAT!’s wonderfully bizarre stories: “Guilt Trippin’” imagines God and Charles Darwin sharing a drink in a pub, reflecting on how things on earth have not exactly worked out according to plan. The accompanying video follows a fly and a sycamore-seed spaceship on a wild ride through the increasingly absurd and dreamlike world of SPLAT!.

Listen to “Guilt Trippin”:

“The song starts, and I’m in the studio. I don’t have any words for it yet,” Ian Gillan explains. “So I just start screaming. It was the pure joy of yelling it. I vowed when I was 40 that I’d stop screaming by the time I was 60. Now I’m looking back and thinking, ‘Whatever happened to that?’ So we’ll give it a go.”

Watch the video for “Guilt Trippin”:

DEEP PURPLE—Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey, and Simon McBride—are currently on a major run of European summer dates before the SPLAT! World Tour heads to North America. Tickets are available via Deep Purple’s official website.

SPLAT! has already received enthusiastic first fan and media reactions, with early press praising the album’s DEEP PURPLE spirit. Uncut calls SPLAT! “distilled, high-octane Purple at its finest,” while Classic Rock praises the album for delivering “everything that makes Deep Purple one of the greatest acts in hard rock.”

SPLAT! is available for pre-order in multiple formats including CD, vinyl, and limited editions. Further exclusive fan items are only available on the official SPLAT! shop.

Pre-save SPLAT! Album:

SPLAT! Album 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!

SPLAT! will be available July 3 in multiple formats:

• Limited Box Set, containing:
• 2LP Gatefold (180g)
• 12-page vinyl-sized booklet
• CD Digisleeve
• 3 exclusive 10-inch vinyl records featuring live recordings from the DEEP PURPLE Tour 2024
• Exclusive 7-inch single featuring the bonus track “GUINNESIS” (not included on the studio album and available exclusively in the box set!)

• CD (Digisleeve)

• 2LP Gatefold (black, 180g) + 12-page vinyl-sized booklet

• Limited Purple 2LP Gatefold (180g) + 12-page vinyl-sized booklet

• Limited Transparent Yellow 2LP (180g) + 12-page vinyl-sized booklet

All LP editions include a rich 12-page LP-sized booklet with illustrations and all song lyrics – available exclusively with the first pressing.

Further exclusive items are available via the official artist store, including:

• Limited 2LP Picture Disc + 12-page vinyl-sized booklet

• Limited Cassette

• A strictly limited canvas signed by all band members and limited to just 199 copies worldwide

• Additional apparel and merchandise items

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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