“Diablo” follows “Arrogant Boy” (the album’s first single) and opens the door to one of Deep Purple’s surreal new story worlds: the most dangerous place on earth, where a heroine crosses a river, jumps into a fighting pit, celebrates with a bucket of wine, falls into the glitter pool and somehow makes it back home with a tale to tell. “Diablo” is a classic Deep Purple rocker – the kind of hard rock track that lives from the riff, the groove, and the band chemistry captured in the studio.
Due July 3 via earMUSIC, “Splat!” – which was produced by Bob Ezrin – draws on the sound and attitude that has always set Deep Purple apart from the rest.
"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 Ian Gillan. "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 by exploring the end of humanity not in any crude apocalyptic sense, but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.
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