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DEEP PURPLE Release Animated Music Video For ‘The Surprising’ Track
October 4th, 2017

Hertford, England hard rock / heavy metal group Deep Purple have released an animated music video for the track ‘The Surprising’, which can be viewed below. The clip was directed and illustrated by Matt Rooke alongside director Peter Rogers, who also produced the video together with Craig Hooper and Collin Games.

Deep Purple issued 20th full-length studio album inFinite on April 7th, 2017 through earMUSIC.

The outing was recorded in February 2016 at a studio in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Bob Ezrin, who additionally handled mixing.

A special limited gold edition of inFinite will be released on November 3rd, 2017. The 2CD digipak will feature new artwork and include a previously unreleased 80 minute live show from Hellfest 2017 in France as a bonus.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Time For Bedlam’
02. ‘Hip Boots’
03. ‘All I Got Is You’
04. ‘One Night In Vegas’
05. ‘Get Me Outta Here’
06. ‘The Surprising’
07. ‘Johnny’s Band’
08. ‘On Top Of The World’
09. ‘Birds Of Prey’
10. ‘Roadhouse Blues’ (The Doors cover)

Deep Purple’s line-up is as follows:

Ian Gillan (vocals)
Steve Morse (guitar)
Roger Glover (bass)
Ian Paice (drums)
Don Airey (keyboards)

Limited edition EPs Time For Bedlam, All I Got Is You and Johnny’s Band were issued on February 3rd, March 10th and August 4th, 2017 respectively. All three releases included non-album tracks and previously unreleased recordings.

Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘All I Got Is You’ and ‘Johnny’s Band’, with the latter including an additional longform version. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the song ‘Time For Bedlam’. All four clips can also be viewed below.

Nineteenth studio record NOW What?! was released in April 2013.